Top 100 I Want To Be Remembered Quotes
#1. Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didn't want to go to school: half the work in the world was done by people who didn't feel so good today.
Rollo Romig
#2. When you die, they can make you into diamonds now. It's scientific. That's how I want to be remembered. I want to shine.
Neil Gaiman
#3. I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics.
Fernando Pessoa
#4. I love getting dressed up, but I want to be remembered for my singing.
Jessie J.
#5. I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all I had to give.
Roberto Clemente
#6. I want to be remembered as a great friend, an outstanding father, an amazing husband, and a good soul who always strived to serve God and man. And during that time of service on earth, I would like people to think, "He brought joy, love, opportunity, and fulfillment to millions of people."
Tony Robbins
#7. I want to be remembered as a great player, but I guess it will be as a player who got angry on a tennis court.
John McEnroe
#8. I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
Arthur Ashe
#9. I dug out an old brown suitcase and threw a few clothes into it, then looked around my bedroom for memorabilia, but stopped when I remembered that the purpose of memorabilia is to trigger memory. I didn't want to be lugging my memories all over the place. They were to heavy.
Steve Toltz
#10. In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories.
Kim Edwards
#11. When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.
Lara Stone
#12. If I want to be remembered as anything in this life it's just 'nice'.I feel like being nice to others is the coolest thing anyone can be.
Troye Sivan
#13. What do you want want to be remembered for?" she asked tartly.
He slowly shook his head. "I just want to be remembered.
Lorraine Heath
#14. I simply want to be remembered as a great competitor and a great teammate.
Steve Nash
#16. I want to be remembered for the work that I've done, rather than the car accidents that I've gotten into, the men that I've not dated - or the man that I have.
Lindsay Lohan
#17. I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.
Idi Amin
#18. I want to die living. And I want to be remembered as one who lived with purpose, joy and feeling. I want to spend my time learning what goes into a whole and happy life, then building that life the best I can.
Steve Goodier
#19. I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
Banksy
#20. I don't want to be remembered, I want to be here!
Hannah Kent
#21. I reckon I can count on 30 more writing years, averaging a book a year (I can't keep up the 2-2.5 a year I used to do these days). And these days I've gotten round to wondering, for each new idea, "do I want to be remembered for this?" before I get to the point of spending a year on it.
Charles Stross
#22. I told Hassan I wanted to matter
like, be remembered. And he said, "famous is the new popular." Maybe he's right, and maybe I just want to be famous.
John Green
#23. I want to be remembered like Pete Rose. 'Charlie Hustle.' I want people to say, 'Wherever he was, he was always giving it his all.'
Walter Payton
#24. I want to be remembered as a professor who said a lot of stupid things to his students.
Arne Naess
#25. I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.
Bryan Adams
#26. I'm of an age when if I started to do eulogies, I'd be doing nothing else. You don't want to be remembered? I don't want them to be told to remember me.
Garrison Keillor
#27. I think that's what we all want, in the end.
To know that we left footprints when we passed by, however briefly.
We want to be remembered.
So remember us.
Please.
Remember us.
Mike A. Lancaster
#28. Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That's what bothers me most, is being another
unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.
John Green
#30. I want to be remembered as an actor who put in some good work in the beginning of his career, even better work at the end of his career and slowly, successfully made the transition into writing and directing.
Jonathan Brandis
#31. If I'm ever lucky enough to be part of an awards tribute, I hope they play 'Muffin Top' in my little clip. That's how I want to be remembered.
Jane Krakowski
#33. I'd like to be the kind of actor who is remembered for my character. You know how there are cases where even when you watch all the way through the end of a drama, you remember the actor's name, not the character's. I want my character's name to be more remembered than mine.
Jung So-min
#34. I want to be remembered much more by a total vision than a few perfect single pictures.
Ernst Haas
#35. Almost everyone is obsessed about leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That's what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.
I want to leave a mark.
John Green
#36. I want to be remembered as a guy who tried his best and did his best.
Art Modell
#37. I want to be remembered as a guy who's not going to change your life but who is going to change your mood. As a guy who made you smile and say, "I miss him. He was a lot of fun."
Marlon Wayans
#38. That's all I want in life is to be remembered as a guy that really loved God.
Andrae Crouch
#39. Not becoming 'something' scares me the most. I just want to be remembered for something great.
Tony Harrison
#40. Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
LaMarr Woodley
#41. I don't mean to step on anyone's toes, and I don't mean to seem arrogant, but if you want to be foreverly remembered as anything great you have to live your life alone, hated, ignored, and character assassinated, and if you believe this to be true than you truely are a hater.
B.L. Kennison
#42. I want to be remembered as the football player I was. The private person is nobody's business.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#43. I want to be remembered for only one thing: my contribution to aviation.
Howard Hughes
#44. I don't want to be remembered for my activities of my past, but for what I am doing today. By that I mean, I don't want to rest on my laurels satisfied by my past deeds. I want to contribute to the advancement of our Folk each and everyday.
Richard Kemp
#45. I don't want to be remembered as a woman from Saint Louis who died. I want to be remembered as a woman from Saint Louis who left and actually did something with her life. Then died.
Ally Spina
#46. When things are said and done, I always want to be remembered as a great teammate and a great player.
Joe Mauer
#47. I want to be remembered as one of the best record producers of my era.
Jan Berry
#48. I want to be remembered as a great actor - and a shining example of humanity.
Jesse L. Martin
#49. I want everything, no matter what concept or genre, to feel real, because it is real. I want to keep making real music, I hope people remember me for that, that's a good thing to be remembered for.
Alessia Cara
#50. I want to be remembered as the biggest philanthropist in Turkey.
Husnu Ozyegin
#51. I'd like to be remembered not only for my body of work but also for specific novels. Ideally, I want to be remembered in the same way as Stephen King, who defined and exemplified excellence in the horror genre in the late 20th and early 21st century.
Nicholas Sparks
#52. What lasting impact will I make on the world and those around me? What will I live my life for? How will I be remembered? I want to leave the world a better place than it was when I got here. I want to experience as much as I can in this very short life that we have.
Theo Rossi
#54. If the truth is told how I want to be remembered ... as someone who cared. Someone who worked really hard and someone who didn't sit around.
Henry Rollins
#55. I don't want to be remembered as anything but brave. The only good intention to make money is to help others. I want to be Oprah. I want to be Melinda Gates. If I ever sell products other than my talents, then it will be to give more to others.
Lady Gaga
#56. I don't want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.
Ashwin Sanghi
#58. I don't think there is much history can say about me. I just want to be remembered as part of that collective.
Nelson Mandela
#59. I just want to be remembered as someone who wanted people to think free and wanted people to be free, whether it's at the end of the day, or at the end of the mortal coil.
Immortal Technique
#60. I want to be remembered for Swiss Family Robinson and Old Yeller. I think Swiss is probably my favorite film.
Tommy Kirk
#61. Somewhere along the line I'll be recognized as one of the top players in the Nicklaus era. That's all I want to be remembered for.
Lee Trevino
#62. People say, "How would you like to be remembered?" I don't want to be remembered. Gimme a break. What I want is to hear what's great about me now. Let me hear it! In the box you don't hear these eulogies.
Jerry Lewis
#63. I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.
Mattie Stepanek
#64. Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.
David Parnas
#65. I don't want to be remembered as a beaten champion.
Rocky Marciano
#66. I just want to be remembered as a person who loved God, who served others more than he served himself, who was trying to grow in maturity and stability.
Mike Yaconelli
#67. I want to be remembered for my football and the pleasure I gave people.
George Best
#68. I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and my brother Jamie.
Patsy Kensit
#69. I want to be remembered for having a great love for my fellow man. Because, you know, I do.
Billy Casper
#70. When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
Freddie Mercury
#71. I want to be remembered as a nice person who didn't hurt people - except my ex-husbands, maybe.
Eugenie Clark
#72. I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.
Arthur C. Clarke
#73. I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.
Malala Yousafzai
#74. Recently I gave a lecture and a gentleman came to me and asked how I'd like to be remembered, i'd never been asked that before, so I thought for a few seconds. And I said I want to be remembered that I had a great love for my fellow man.
Billy Casper
#75. I want you to live as you would be remembered if you would die tomorrow,
P.C. Cast
#76. I want to be remembered as a loving, understanding father.
Robert Gossett
#77. I think I might drum up the hardest end-of-term exams in the history of the world. I want to be remembered for something." "George, you'll be remembered. Who could forget you?" "Hopefully not you!" He kissed her forehead.
Robyn Carr
#78. If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor.
Francis Ford Coppola
#79. I want to be remembered as a championship football player.
Brian Urlacher
#80. My legacy doesn't matter. It isn't important that I be remembered. It's important that when I stand before the Lord, he says, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.' I want to finish strong.
James Dobson
#82. When I die, I want to be remembered for what I did, not what I could've done
Jess Lowe
#83. I don't want to be remembered as a good goalkeeper. I want to be remembered as a great person
Iker Casillas
#84. I want it to be remembered that Ozzy was the first celebrity who was brave enough to open up his private life to the public. He was the first.
Sharon Osbourne
#85. If I wanted to make a quick buck, there's far easier ways of doing it. What I want is to provoke people. If you want a hit song, all you need to do is rewrite an old song. It might have been proven to work, but you won't be remembered the same way.
Avicii
#87. I don't want to be known for winning the game, I want to be remembered for how I played it." Abbie St. Claire
Abbie St. Claire
#88. I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
Gale Sayers
#89. When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.
Eddy Arnold
#90. I want to be remembered as a person who kept it real, who did what he wanted to do, but never did nothing stupid and never tried to offend nobody else. I'm always being myself.
Edgerrin James
#91. After my death, I want to be remembered as Africa's greatest industrialist.
Aliko Dangote
#92. I did not want to be forgotten. More than that, I wanted, desperately - I fell to my knees and began to tear out the weeds, the vines, by their very roots - to be remembered.
Melanie Benjamin
#93. It would be nice if I was remembered at all. I don't really care about being remembered. I just want to enjoy my life today and do my best while I'm here. I'm not that ambitious, other than to have a good life now.
Sean Lennon
#94. I want to be remembered as somebody working hard, walking straight in life, most of the time, and just being a down-to-earth person, being loyal and being indestructible.
Jens Voigt
#95. I know it's not the most important thing for me to win the most Grand Slams and be remembered in this world. I certainly don't have to win little tournaments here, there and everywhere, I don't have to win at all. Although I do want to.
Venus Williams
#96. I want to be remembered as a guy who inspired, encouraged and made people laugh.
Tyler Perry
#97. I want to be remembered as a woman who was fair and always gave 150 percent, no matter what I did.
Patti LaBelle
#98. I want to make my own path and leave behind a good legacy for myself and honestly, I just want to be innovative and always down for other people. That's what I want to be remembered by. I want to inspire.
ASAP Rocky
#99. I have no intent. I have no reason to live, that's all. When I'm gone, I don't want to be remembered.
Julie Anne Peters
#100. I want to be remembered for my poop jokes. Those are the most important kind.
Eric Andre
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