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No legacy is so rich as honesty. -- William Shakespeare
It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations. -- Christine Gregoire
I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we face. I also wonder if perhaps the most lasting expression of one's humility lies in our ability to foster and mentor our children. -- Naveen Jain
Legacy is greater than currency. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
Legacy above finances; artistry above fame. -- Jimmy Chamberlin
Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy. -- Bill Gates
The Legacy of Behaviorism: Do this and you'll get that. -- Alfie Kohn
Legacy is what a president does that affects later generations. -- Michael Beschloss
Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy. -- David Frum
Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world's balance sheet? -- Ryan Lilly
Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture. -- Bill Hybels
I would have happily done 'Bourne Legacy,' but a lot of decisions are made for you. -- Joel Edgerton
Legacy media accuses young people of being apathetic while actively attempting to remove them from the discussion. -- Hank Green
Legacy of cultures passed on from ancient to medieval era, from middle ages to present time through the seasons of dance. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Legacy: Supreme leaders determine where generations are going and develop outstanding leaders they pass the baton to. -- Anyaele Sam Chiyson
Legacy is not what's left tomorrow when you're gone. It's what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you're here that then happens to live on. -- Rasheed Ogunlaru
A legacy is not what is recorded in history books or repeated in song, but what is woven into the souls of those who remain.(from The General's Legacy) -- Adrian G Hilder
Legacy doesn't mean a lot because once you have left, even if you are one of the biggest individual shareholders it only means [a small amount of influence]. But it's something I'm very pleased about. -- Maurice Levy
We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it. -- Jennifer Granholm
You are remembered for the rules you break. -- Douglas MacArthur
My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone. -- Julia Morgan
Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year's Eve. -- Fergie
This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young. -- Paul Tsongas
There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it. -- George W. Bush
That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched. -- Patti Davis
Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them. -- Lysette Anthony
As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century. -- Li Peng
There is nothing more important than parents passing on a generational legacy of faith and values to their children. -- James Dobson
You don't wanna mess up what you've done. It's like Jordan coming back: You're scared to mess up the legacy. -- Ice Cube
The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations. -- Criss Jami
If your life is motivated by your ambition to leave a legacy, what you'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition. -- Rich Mullins
Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions. -- Serena Williams
I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport. -- Patrick Chan
My new year's resolution: Never be afraid to be kicked in the teeth. Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy. -- Lady Gaga
The only bridge I've ever burned along this legacy I dance is the one that linked the cities of prosperity and chance. -- Aesop Rock
The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy. -- N. D. Kalu
There's weight on me to raise the bar, to carry on that legacy. But that's what drives me. Making sure that no one ever forgets who the Wallendas are. -- Nik Wallenda
I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that. -- Renee Fleming
Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United States, but their tenure in office and their legacy could not be more different. -- Barack Obama
Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy? -- bell hooks
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
The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith. -- Billy Graham
What I am most proud of is the legacy of hope that FIFA and football leaves around the world. It makes all of the efforts and energy I pour into this job worth it. -- Sepp Blatter
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
When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another. -- Oprah Winfrey
Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported? -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I think one of my father's great legacies is the people that he inspired and the generation that he inspired transformed America through civil rights, women's rights, equal justice, and they've passed that on to their children and grandchildren. -- Caroline Kennedy
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. -- Myles Munroe
We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching. -- Paul Tsongas
For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries. -- Judy Collins
Steve Jobs was a great friend as well as a trusted advisor. His legacy will extend far beyond the products he created or the businesses he built. It will be the millions of people he inspired, the lives he changed, and the culture he defined. -- Bob Iger
I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything. -- Caroline Kennedy
We recall our terrible past so that we can deal with it, to forgive where forgiveness is necessary, without forgetting; to ensure that never again will such inhumanity tear us apart; and to move ourselves to eradicate a legacy that lurks dangerously as a threat to our democracy. -- Nelson Mandela
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
There's no way that I could have known about a 72-oz. steak challenge in Amarillo unless thousands upon thousands of locals and travellers alike had attempted it. I guess if 'Man V Food' is me paying homage to these legends, then I suppose 'Man V Food Nation' is the legacy. -- Adam Richman
A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather's funeral. He said that the greatest lesson from his grandfather's life was that he died empty, because he accomplished everything he wanted, with no regrets. I think that, along with leaving a legacy, would be the greatest sign of success. -- Marvin Sapp
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I don't ever want it to be about me. A friend of mine told me, 'The difference between fame and notoriety is fame is when people know you, and notoriety is when people know your work.' The first one is not respectable, but the second one is, because that leaves a legacy. -- Troy Baker
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
There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out, that was a legacy that he left me that money can't buy, is how to be able to treat people. -- Paula Deen
We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country. -- Barack Obama
We are all a complete mixture;yet at the same time,we are all related.Each gene can trace its own journey to a different common ancestor.This is a quite extraordinary legacy that we all have inherited from the people who lived before us.Our genes did not just appear when we were born.They have been carried to us by millions of individual lives over thousands of generations. -- Bryan Sykes
Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy. -- Stephen Covey
I want to leave a legacy. I'll leave him in the trunk, tied up, at a parking garage on the campus of the university where he graduated. -- Jarod Kintz
My work... is my legacy. -- Patrick Swayze
I just want to complete my legacy. -- Lennox Lewis
We don't live forever... Our legacy does. -- Greg Plitt
Create your legacy by fulfilling your potential... -- Gino Norris
Create your legacy, and pass the baton. -- Billie Jean King
I don't even know how to spell 'legacy! -- Ronnie Dunn
It's always great to add to your legacy. -- Chris Jericho
Sting's legacy was built on Ric Flair's reputation. -- Triple H
I dont think about the Fonda legacy much. -- Troy Garity
I don't think about the Fonda legacy much. -- Troy Garity
Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy. -- Lady Gaga
Leaders should leave behind them assets and a legacy. -- Max de Pree
I certainly hope 'Dragon' can leave some legacy behind. -- Donnie Yen
What you have in legacy countries is long-term insolvency. -- Paul Singer
It leaves a good legacy to have five records. -- Theophilus London
Im never looking at life in terms of legacy. -- Andrew Forrest
What type of legacy do you want to leave? -- Marc Kielburger
Let the music play on would be my legacy. -- Lionel Richie
What we are most passionate about becomes our legacy. -- Mike Crump
Unlike wealth, there is an infinite value in legacy. -- Criss Jami
This dress exacerbates the genetic betrayal that is my legacy. -- Janeane Garofalo
Ownership, that's what you give your kids. That's your legacy. -- Prince
Living to create an earthly legacy is a short-sighted goal. -- Rick Warren
The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy. -- Bertrand Russell
I have a great legacy, tarnished somewhat by the move. -- Art Modell
A man's legacy is determined by how the story ends. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
I have a great legacy, tarnished somewhat by the move -- Art Modell
Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy. -- Chubby Checker
Leave a legacy of love, not a legacy of fear. -- Shannon L. Alder
The earth is hiring and the pay is your legacy. -- Shannon L. Alder
A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s. -- Camille Paglia
I do not feel I have a legacy to protect. -- Bret Easton Ellis
I've always said your legacy is what you leave behind you. -- Darrell Waltrip
I'm not sure I've ever profited on the legacy of Watergate. -- John Dean
Please think about your legacy, because you're writing it every day. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
Prayer is the inheritance we receive and the legacy we leave. -- Mark Batterson
To live; to love; to learn; and to leave a legacy. -- Stephen Covey
A father's holy life is a rich legacy for his sons. -- Charles Spurgeon
The main obstacle is the entrenched power of the legacy polluters. -- Van Jones
The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories. -- Og Mandino
I don't think about my legacy, if indeed, I have one. -- Louis Farrakhan
Each day we choose to live the legacy we want to leave. -- Pam Farrel
Yesterday is gone, live for today and leave a legacy for tomorrow. -- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Before tomorrow becomes your legacy, come the choices you must make today. -- Bill Jensen
I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions. -- Sheldon Adelson
Everyday create your history, every path you take you're leaving your legacy. -- Michael Jackson
I have never thought of legacy or what I want to achieve. -- Maurice Levy
This Epistle, is therefore a legacy to the Christians of all ages. -- John Strachan
You will get your father's wealth one day but not his legacy. -- Amit Kalantri
Whether you like it or not, you will leave a leadership legacy. -- Ken Blanchard
I can live my legacy or just have led a busy life. -- Gary W. Goldstein
The legacy of the Armenian Genocide is woven into the fabric of America. -- Adam Schiff
As a Republican, I am proud of my party's rich legacy of conservation. -- Robert Dold

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