Legacy Quotes - Page 32

• No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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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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• The economic benefits of investing in children have been extensively documented. Investing fully in children today will ensure the well-being and productivity of future generations for decades to come. By contrast, the physical, emotional and intellectual impairment that poverty inflicts on children canmean a lifetime of suffering and want - and a legacy of poverty for the next generation.

  Carol Bellamy

  Time, Children, Future

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• If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Peace

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• Live today the way you want to be remembered tomorrow.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Generosity, Giving, Making A Difference

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.

  Li Peng

  Issues, Historical, Kashmir

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• Prayer is the inheritance we receive and the legacy we leave.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Inheritance

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

  Leonard Sweet

  Inspirational, Life, New Beginnings

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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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• All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine.

  Jim Rohn

  Responsibility, Men, Good Man

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• Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet. It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: The history of how you felt.

  Simon Van Booy

  Children, Disappointment, People

  Simon Van Booy (2009). “Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories”, HarperCollins

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• Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Wall, Flower

  "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, (pp. 156-157), 1953.

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• It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Cutting, Men

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• This dress exacerbates the genetic betrayal that is my legacy.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Betrayal, Dresses, Reunion

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• I have never seen more Senators express discontent with their jobs....I think the major cause is that, deep down in our hearts, we have been accomplices in doing something terrible and unforgivable to our wonderful country. Deep down in our heart, we know that we have given our children a legacy of bankruptcy. We have defrauded our country to get ourselves elected.

  John C. Danforth

  Country, Money, Jobs

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• I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four years. This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.

  Katy Perry

  Girl, Love Life, Sacrifice

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• LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Tears

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.148, University of Georgia Press

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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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