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• My legacy would be that you don't have to give up anything. You can be chic but have a sense of humor, you can be sexy but comfortable, you can be timeless but fresh.

  Michael Kors

  Sexy, Giving Up, Would Be

  "Michael Kors: American Idol". Interview with Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 29, 2011.

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• I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.

  Michael Bolton

  Disappointment, Here And Now, Settings

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• 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?

  Abdul Kalam

  Technology, Years, Television

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• 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

  Moving, Past, Forgiving

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• Whenever I feel like I'm getting too far away from where I need to be, I think about my sons and the legacy I have to leave for them - and it always brings me back to reality.

  Dwyane Wade

  Son, Reality, Thinking

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• 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

  Bridges, Cities, Chance

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• I want my legacy to be greater freedom, greater prosperity and a better way of life for my family, our employees and all Americans. And I wish the same for every nation on earth.

  Charles Koch

  Wish, Earth, Want

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• When we renounce our dreams, we find peace and enjoy a brief period of tranquillity, but the dead dreams begin to rot inside us and to infect the whole atmosphere in which we live. What we hoped to avoid in the Fight -disappointment and defeat- become the sole legacy of our cowardice.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Dream, Disappointment

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• We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.

  Al Gore

  Children, Believe, Choices

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.368, Routledge

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• I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Dark, Shining, Want

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• Our legacy is how we spend our time and who we spend it with.

  Jim Stengel

  Marketing, Our Time

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

  Dillon Burroughs

  Want, Kind

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• Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide

  Hope Edelman

  Memories, Loss, Guides

  Hope Edelman (1994). “Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss”, Da Capo Press

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• The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are these people doing to themselves? They're killing each other. They're killing themselves while we watch them die.' This is how we came to own these United States. This is the legacy of manifest destiny.

  Aaron Huey

  Motivation, Inspiration, Successful

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• 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

  Children, Splendid, Turns

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• What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy.

  Leonard Sweet

  Inspirational, Life, New Beginnings

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• Our life is our prayer. It is our gift to the universe, and the memories we leave behind when we someday exit this world will be our legacy to our loved ones. The best thing we can do for ourselves and everyone around us is to find our joy and share it!

  Anita Moorjani

  Wisdom, Prayer, Memories

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• When we die our entire legacy is simply the added together strengths of all the connections we make with others. This is the ghost of ourselves we leave behind. This is showing up.

  James Altucher

  Together, Showing Up, Connections

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• To live; to love; to learn; and to leave a legacy.

  Stephen Covey

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• Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it.

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspirational, Made, Should

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• Your children are your legacy to the world. As you raise them with love, you contribute to making this world a better place.

  Kristine Carlson

  Children, Love You, World

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

  Jean A. Stevens

  Believe, Choices, Covenant

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• If there is any one message the Bible delivers, it is the message that God loves outcasts and that Jesus was born into the world an outcast to rescue and renew outcasts from religion gone bad. He was born poor and died poor, yet the legacy of love he left us, the legacy of inclusion and acceptance and understanding, will endure forever.

  Mel White

  Jesus, Acceptance, Forever

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• Unchain yourself from the guilt that you aren’t doing something right, that you’re not leaving the “right” legacy, and BE your real self. Just that. That’s all the legacy you’re here to give - the genuine best of you.

  Wendy Keller

  Real, Self, Giving

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• Everyday create your history, every path you take you're leaving your legacy.

  Michael Jackson

  Inspirational, Leaving, Everyday

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Jan 20, 2014

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