Legacy You Leave Quotes

#1. When the legacy you leave behind lasts for hours, days or a lifetime, you matter.

Seth Godin

#2. Imagine that your life's efforts serve as a mark of God and that the only way the divine is seen, heard or expressed is through the legacy you leave behind. The yearning to make a difference is your need to express your purpose and derive meaning from your time on earth.

Debbie Ford

#3. You will be raising these kids in your mind your whole life. And they will change you. Your little contribution to it - twenty years from now, they'll be marching off into other things and that's still the legacy you leave.

Bill Ayers

#4. How you use the opportunities your given to affect the world around you will determine the legacy you leave behind.

Tony Dungy

#5. If you want to save the humankind,
you should first take care of Nature.
It's the legacy that we leave behind,
That brings us hope, that's for sure!

Ana Claudia Antunes

#6. It's never too early to think about your legacy," she would say. "Don't you want to leave some kind of mark that you were here?

Ben Tanzer

#7. Maybe I wanted to have kids because you want to leave behind lessons, leave behind everything that matters to you. That's how you touch the world. But I have to reconsider what it's like to leave a legacy.

Mattie Stepanek

#8. If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased.

Maya Angelou

#9. If your life is motivated by your ambition to leave a legacy, what you'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition.

Rich Mullins

#10. Your story is the greatest legacy that you will leave to your friends.It's the longest-lasting legacy you will leave to your heirs.

Steve Saint

#11. My mother always told me that as you go through life, no matter what you do, or how you do it, you leave a little footprint, and that's your legacy.

Jan Brewer

#12. I've always said your legacy is what you leave behind you.

Darrell Waltrip

#13. Take the chair and sit at the fore-front of your dreams. You are the chair-person at the center of affairs; make it memorable; make an impact! Leave a legacy!

Israelmore Ayivor

#14. The aim is to produce specific results by your actions, so you begin to do things on purpose. If I leave things to chance, I am losing the plot to make success deliberate, meaning I am increasing my chances of failing in any given task.

Archibald Marwizi

#15. What will you do today so tomorrow becomes the legacy you wanted to leave?

Bill Jensen

#16. We get one opportunity in life, one chance at life to do whatever you're going to do, and lay your foundation and make whatever mark you're going to make. Whatever legacy you're going to leave; leave your legacy!

Ray Lewis

#17. You're either selfish, or you're a servant ... but fundamentally selfish people are terrible friends, terrible lovers, terrible spouses, terrible Christians, terrible parents. They leave a terrible legacy. Will you be selfish? Will you be a servant? ... A good marriage is a servant and a servant.

Mark Driscoll

#18. Your choice to believe and keep covenants will leave a rich legacy of faith for those who follow you.

Jean A. Stevens

#19. If we provide the young with a strong foundation, we can leave behind a legacy substantially greater than most are able to bequeath. As for the women, the old adage that you invest in a woman, you invest in a generation, still rings true today.

Joyce Banda

#20. Somebody asked me a question. It was a defining question: 'What type of legacy do you want to leave?' We ask that question a lot later in life, but we need to start asking it to young people.

Marc Kielburger

#21. It's called "being an artist" for a reason; it's something YOU ARE. It's how you live. It's WHO you are. How you spend your life and what you leave behind.

Charlotte Eriksson

#22. ...to ride well to hounds is simply a diversion. It leaves no record. But already, my dear Charlotte, you have created something, a legacy.

Daisy Goodwin

#23. I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.

Shania Twain

#24. You're on the right path. As you know, there will be hard choices and difficult obstacles to overcome," I said, "[but] this is an opportunity for you to leave an historic legacy for your country.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#25. I've dealt with losing close ones before, and I've been around friends that have lost friends at a young age. I think it's important to think about - not necessarily death, but about life and think about where you're going and how you want to be remembered and the legacy you want to leave.

Scotty McCreery

#26. What type of legacy do you want to leave?

Marc Kielburger

#27. It's more important what you leave to people on this planet. I want my legacy to exist now, currently, not after I'm gone.

Eric Burdon

#28. You don't have to be dead to leave a legacy.

Onyi Anyado

#29. You really are a soul caged in a human body. The body decays but the soul is everlasting. Leave a legacy you can be proud of. Make a difference in this world now while you still can. Even after you have left your soul shall remain. You will still know.

Sohail Mahmood

#30. I think the whole world is dying to hear someone say, 'I love you.' I think that if I can leave the legacy of love and passion in the world, then I think I've done my job in a world that's getting colder and colder by the day.

Lionel Richie

#31. The best legacy you could leave is not some building that is names after you or a piece of jewelry but rather a world that has been impacted and touched by your presence, your joy, and your positive actions.

Jon Gordon

#32. Your prayers for your children are the greatest legacy you can leave.

Mark Batterson

#33. You can't lead without love, and more importantly, you can't leave a legacy without love.

Farshad Asl

#34. Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be most useful so.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#35. Every generation leaves behind a legacy. What that legacy will be is determined by the people of that generation. What legacy do you want to leave behind?

John Lewis

#36. Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children ... let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money ... and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.

Ansel Adams

#37. I may not be able to leave behind wealth or splendor, but I will try to leave behind examples and stories of my love and kindness to inspire you to be kind and spread the message of kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#38. It's the journey that matters, soak it in. Learn lessons out of it. Impact positively so that if you never get to your destination, at least you'd leave a legacy to be remembered.

Emem Uko

#39. An inheritance is what you leave with people. A legacy is what you leave in them.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#40. You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.

Irving Kristol

#41. If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight.

Michael Bloomberg

#42. Remember live each day, as though it were your last, the mark you leave, your legacy, can't change once you have passed.

L.M. Fields

#43. Growth is there for everybody, but it is not everybody who 'grows'! So many people grow to stop growing, but aging never stops for mankind until we come to the ebb of our days! Grow in something as you grow and leave something unique!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#44. Whether you like it or not, you will leave a leadership legacy.

Ken Blanchard

#45. Some people behind leave a legacy, some leave behind children. Which would you prefer?

Mary Sage Nguyen

#46. Ask yourself if you are leaving a trail that others may want to follow. Are you leaving a legacy of accomplishment? What mark will you leave on your industry? Your friends and family?

Les Brown

#47. Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet.
It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones:
The history of how you felt.

Simon Van Booy

#48. I want our company to leave a legacy of learning to find the balance between what's good and what's good for you.

Nell Newman

#49. Everyone leaves a legacy, whether they want to or not. The question is, What kind of legacy will you leave?

Dillon Burroughs

#50. It must be great to spend time in a spot and if you walk away, it's so much better than before because of something you did.

Dan Groat

#51. When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best to leave great footprints no matter what!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#52. That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched.

Patti Davis

#53. Life is what you make it and legacy is what you leave it. Stop trying to be perfect, stop waiting for perfection to find you, and start making your environment a product of you instead of the other way around.

A.J. Darkholme

#54. Today and every day, live and lead the memory you want to leave behind.

Jon Mertz

#55. Love leaves legacy. How you treated other people, not your wealth or accomplishments, is the most enduring impact you can leave on earth.

Rick Warren