The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. Read Summary
No legacy is so rich as honesty. Read Summary
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it. Read Summary
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. Read Summary
Thug Life to me is dead. Read Summary
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. Read Summary
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name. Read Summary
No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind. Read Summary
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me. Read Summary
If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success. Read Summary
I shall be active and vigorous even from the tomb. Read Summary
People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind. Read Summary
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. Read Summary
Those who know me know I'm passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path. Read Summary
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. Read Summary
I want my impact to be legendary. Read Summary
I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal. Read Summary
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. Read Summary
The people who have impacted the world didn't live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history. Read Summary
True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people. Read Summary