47 Legacy Quotes
Be inspired by these legacy quotes. Legacy covers the gambit of life; they speak of how one lives and their impact on the lives of others.
A legacy is much different than a well stated goal, or a personal achievement. A legacy does not have an "I" in the meaning, but, instead, has a "other" in its residue.
In other words, it is far less important of what I achieve but more vital as to how I have contributed to the well-being of others.
What then is the key feature or attribute of your earthly legacy?
For some, it is to abandon a lifestyle of wealth and fame to assist those in need of relief from hunger or prejudice. For others, it means a person who makes a difference through social or legal reform
to destroy actions of deceit or domination or dictatorial rule. On the other hand, you do not need to be someone of wealth or power to influence or to help make a difference.
Every person has some level of power even if that power is a personal choice to love, encourage or counsel someone else who desperately needs it. What is important to you; what do you value;
do you want your life to touch others; what is the one thing - just one thing - you can take action on that increases the well-being of another? All or some of these questions are waiting for your response.
Maybe the answer lies in volunteering, or to share your knowledge and skills.
Integrity has at its' core to act and behave as genuine not as somebody else. Our baseline of humanity, our unselfish actions speak more loudly than any well-crafted speech.
Each legacy statement you write (by your actions) will reflect your unique personality, i.e. the way you will design and live your life; a life worth remembering; one worth emulating.
You may also be inspired by our collection of legacy poems.
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War, peace, feast, famine, diaspora, disease—if our ancestors went through it and survived, we’ve inherited it. And once we’ve got it, we’re that much
more likely to pass it on to the next generation in one way or another.
Sharon Moalem MD PhD, Inheritance
Poems of Encouragement
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Why is a Christian like a garden? You are either continuously nourished by the Word of God, or you are wilting away mired in the thoughts and actions of a secular world moving further and further away from what God may be revealing to you through His living Word.
Theodore W. Higgingsworth
Christian Poems
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What does your friendship legacy look like? Is it long-lasting based more on the other person's needs, or is it a legacy of abandonment when things don't go your way?
Samatha Anne Marie Lynch
Friendship Poems
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You don't have to write a gardening book to establish a garden legacy. What you may wish to do, however, is to teach a young person the joys and beauty of tending to one of God's creations.
Sam Fickinsen
Garden Poems
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Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.
Clive Anderson
The Oak Tree Poem
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To lead a life worth living is to demonstrate that a person's legacy is made up of little parts contributing to the whole.
Byron R. Pulsifer
Poems About Life
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Legends don't quit. Never. Period.
Hiral Nagda
Don't Quit Poem
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The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money - but rather a legacy of character and faith.
Billy Graham
Faith Quotes
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
Taylor Swift
Graduation Poems
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Being happy with life is a legacy you can leave. How many people go through life unhappy.
Catherine Pulsifer
Quotes About Being Happy
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Instead of a legacy as a fighter, I want to leave a mark in the sport about the good news of Jesus Christ.
Rory MacDonald
Quotes About Jesus
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Then while we live, in love let’s so persever, that when we live no more, we may live ever.
Anne Bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving Husband
Valentines Day Poems
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... leave a positive impact on the generations to come. Your legacy is one that will be cherished and remembered.
Rachel M. Rasmussen, Escaping the Ordinary Life
Positive Quotes
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Grandparents are a family’s greatest treasure, the founders of a loving legacy
Unknown, Grandparents Are
Grandparents Poems
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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike
Thank You Poems For Volunteers
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I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories.
Og Mandino
Making Memories Quotes
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There are three things you can do with your life: You can waste it, you can spend it, or you can invest it. The best use of your life is to invest it in something that will last longer than your time on Earth.
Rick Warren
Life Is Good Poems
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When I consider the power of thoughts to transform the world, I realize that thinking matters... This thought is a seed of the legacy
of wisdom we want to pass down to our kids.
Rachel M. Rasmussen, Escaping the Ordinary Life
Positive Thoughts
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Our only choice is a question of engagement. Our willingness to own and engage with our vulnerability determines the depth of our courage and the
clarity of our purpose
Brené Brown, Daring Greatly
Be Inspired
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Your legacy can never compare, the cherished memories we always share.
Catherine Pulsifer, Grandfather, Your Special Day
Birthday Poems For Grandpa
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Live for something. Do good and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storm of time can never destroy.
Dr. Chalmers, Live For Something
Good Poems
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Lord, make me strong for this I've planned, help me to lend that helping hand; for I have learned that he who does not give exists perhaps, but does not live.
Unknown, Twilight Reverie
Poems About Helping Others
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The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
Benjamin Disraeli
Be An Example
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However, if we explore the inner mind of those with a truly remarkable legacy, we discover that their material wealth is merely a by-product of a
much deeper, more admirable, attitude and approach to life.
Benjamin Bonetti, How To Change Your Life
Attitude Quotes
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If in our hearts we place the truth, we will die with an honest heart.
J. J. Thorne, Days of Truth
Poems About Truth
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Our children are our monuments, the little ones we leave behind
Edgar A. Guest, Living Monuments
Poems About Parent
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The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose, to make a difference in the world, and to leave a legacy of love and compassion.
Author Unknown
Quotes About Purpose
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Take a moment now to create your own legacy statement. What, for you, represents the true meaning of success and how do you want to be remembered after you're gone?
Benjamin Bonetti, How To Change Your Life
Success Poem
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He is blessed as a cheerful giver and his deeds never decay
J. J. Thorne
Poems
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The world a brighter place they leave behind, their legacy of joy will surely come to mind.
Catherine Pulsifer, A Life Well-Lived
Poems About Joy
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In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence. Hence, the supreme quality for a leader
is unquestionably integrity.
James Merritt, Character Still Counts
Leadership Quotes
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Lasting success is built with the stuff on the inside—who you are and who you want to become, why you sell, and what legacy you intend to leave.
Todd Duncan
Motivational Sales Quotes
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Character is the part of your personality that other people tend to admire ... It is the sum total of those aspects of who you are as a person that leads
others to see you as a person with integrity, a person who contributes, a person who can be trusted.
Ryan Niemiec, The Power of Character Strengths
Life Journey Quotes
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What you see in the loving eyes of a mother is that to which you should set your sails. It is within you that counts as the highest example of integrity
and not that which is seen around you.
Robert R. Rivers
Mothers Day Messages
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Whenever a decision or a choice is to be made concerning behavior, the moral decision will be the one which works toward the creation of trust,
confidence, and integrity in relationships.
Jacques P. Thiroux, Ethics
Decision Quotes
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If you don’t have some inner integrity, eventually your Watergate, your scandal, your betrayal, will happen.
David Brooks, The Road to Character
Honor Quotes
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To leave a legacy for your children or grandchildren is not always money but something even more precious. It is to leave the Earth and its beauty, its vitality, and its wholesomeness.
Byron R. Pulsifer
Earth Day Quotes
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Business provides a variety of ethical minefields that can challenge the integrity of the men and women who are striving to succeed in an ever more
competitive global economy.
Scott Rae, Moral Choices
Success Quotes
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When a son or daughter is born, a father realizes his legacy.
Kate Summers
Father Quotes
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You can leave a legacy of material acquisitions. The question is then, how will these earthly things benefit those left behind?
Theodore W. Higgingsworth
Life Choices
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To live is to abide within the chilly coordinates of constant choice, choices about what to value, about how to live our lives, about ethics.
Gordon Marino, Ethics
Choices Quotes
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A legacy of love for all is one of the greatest offerings of humankind.
Kate Summers
Short Love Quotes
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I think as we get older there’s less pretending. Year after year, our internal blueprints develop into a solid structure where we move about the world as
ourselves.
Hoda Kotb, I Really Needed This Today
Birthday Poems to My Son
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Love is the human family's most precious legacy. Its richest bequest. Its golden inheritance.
Michael Jackson
Short Family Quotes
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When habits and goals are in line, they smoothly integrate to guide our actions.
Wendy Wood, Good Habits, Bad Habits
Action Quotes
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We are not happy, technically speaking, unless we see ourselves progressing—and the very idea of progression implies value. Worse yet is the fact
that the meaning of life without positive value is not simply neutral.
Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life
Life Quotes
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Wholehearted living is about engaging in our lives from a place of worthiness.
Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection
Make A Difference Quotes
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