Top 100 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. In planning anything, the best place to begin is at the end. What outcome do you want? How do you want the story to end? How do you want to be remembered when you are gone?
Michael Hyatt
#9. I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
Arthur Ashe
#10. Ask yourself, what makes my book so different? So interesting? Don't write to be a best seller. Write for and from your heart, not your wallet. Write something you want to be remembered by.
Leon Nacson
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Since death is an inevitablility and life an uncertainty, it all comes down to how we live the precious moments of our lives. When all is said and done, when you are ready to slip peacefully from this world into the next, how do you want to be remembered?
S. Cameron Roach
#14. When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.
Lara Stone
#15. Sometimes artist like to catch themselves looking out, let the world see them for once. It's a signature. This one is a very bold one. But this is also a witnessing. We want to remember, and we want to be remembered. That's why we paint.
Maureen Johnson
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. I simply want to be remembered as a great competitor and a great teammate.
Steve Nash
#20. You want to do work that is remembered, you want to be a part of something that's remembered.
Anthony Michael Hall
#21. 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
#22. I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.
Idi Amin
#23. 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
#24. She remembered something that am old boyfriend had said to her. One that she didn't want to let go of at the time. One person can't be happy enough for the both of us
Chris Manby
#25. I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
Banksy
#26. I don't want to be remembered, I want to be here!
Hannah Kent
#27. You can chose if you want to be imagined or remembered.
Saahil Prem
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. I want to be remembered as a professor who said a lot of stupid things to his students.
Arne Naess
#32. I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.
Bryan Adams
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#37. 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
#38. We just want to be remembered before something is set in stone.
Bill Dana
#39. 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
#41. Men always want to be remembered whereas women realize that requires being dead.
Ann Aguirre
#42. 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
#43. I want to be remembered much more by a total vision than a few perfect single pictures.
Ernst Haas
#44. 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
#45. I want to be remembered as a guy who tried his best and did his best.
Art Modell
#46. Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?
George Monbiot
#47. Be happy. Decide to be happy. If you want to be happy, be happy! No one cares if you're happy or not, so why wait for permission? And did it really matter if you had been deeply unhappy in your past? Who but you remembered that?
Amity Gaige
#48. 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
#49. That's all I want in life is to be remembered as a guy that really loved God.
Andrae Crouch
#50. The dead would not want to be remembered in a way that caused such pain to the living.
Hazel Hunter
#51. Not becoming 'something' scares me the most. I just want to be remembered for something great.
Tony Harrison
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. I want to be remembered as the football player I was. The private person is nobody's business.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#55. Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
Gore Vidal
#56. I want to be remembered for only one thing: my contribution to aviation.
Howard Hughes
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. When things are said and done, I always want to be remembered as a great teammate and a great player.
Joe Mauer
#60. I want to be remembered as one of the best record producers of my era.
Jan Berry
#61. Sometimes artists like to catch themselves looking out, let the world see them for once. It's a signature. This one is a very bold one. But this is also a witnessing. We want to remember, and we want to be remembered. That's why we paint." Mari
Maureen Johnson
#62. I want to be remembered as a great actor - and a shining example of humanity.
Jesse L. Martin
#63. 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
#64. I want to be remembered as the biggest philanthropist in Turkey.
Husnu Ozyegin
#65. 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
#66. 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
#68. 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
#69. If you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading
Abraham Lincoln
#70. 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
#71. I don't want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.
Ashwin Sanghi
#72. Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
Lajos Egri
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. Marina wouldn't want to be remembered because she dead. She would want to be remembered because she's good.
Anne Fadiman
#77. Many people spend their lives trying to create a lasting legacy on earth. They want to be remembered when they're gone. Yet, what ultimately matters most will not be what others say about your life but what God says.
Rick Warren
#78. I want to be remembered for Swiss Family Robinson and Old Yeller. I think Swiss is probably my favorite film.
Tommy Kirk
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.
Mattie Stepanek
#82. Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.
David Parnas
#83. I don't want to be remembered as a beaten champion.
Rocky Marciano
#84. 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
#85. I want to be remembered for my football and the pleasure I gave people.
George Best
#87. 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
#88. I want to be remembered for having a great love for my fellow man. Because, you know, I do.
Billy Casper
#89. When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
Freddie Mercury
#90. Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
#91. I want to be remembered as a nice person who didn't hurt people - except my ex-husbands, maybe.
Eugenie Clark
#92. I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.
Arthur C. Clarke
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. I want you to live as you would be remembered if you would die tomorrow,
P.C. Cast
#96. I want to be remembered as a loving, understanding father.
Robert Gossett
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. I want to be remembered as a championship football player.
Brian Urlacher
#100. Imagine yourself at your funeral. Ask yourself what you want your family and friends to say about you. How will you be remembered and what impact will you have had on other people's lives? How did you make the world a better place?
Robert Cheeke
