Legacy Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.

  David R. Brower

  Nature, Thinking, Water Of Life

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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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• 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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• 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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• Journey quietly on your pathway to forever with charity & a smile. When you depart it will be said by all that your legacy was a better world than the one you found.

  Og Mandino

  Sadness, Journey, Forever

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• The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

  Tavis Smiley

  Choices, Kind, Determine

  "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates". Book by Wes Moore, April 27, 2010.

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• How can we create a cultural legacy of happiness? Let other people matter.

  Christopher Peterson

  People, Matter

  Christopher Peterson (2013). “Pursuing the Good Life: 100 Reflections in Positive Psychology”, p.81, Oxford University Press

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• We get one opportunity in life, one chance at life to do whatever you're going to do, and lay your foundation and make whatever mark you're going to make. Whatever legacy you're going to leave; leave your legacy!

  Ray Lewis

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Foundation

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• I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Perfect, Feelings, Adults

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• And we're also remembering the guiding light of our Judeo-Christian tradition. All of us here today are descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, sons and daughters of the same God. I believe we are bound by faith in our God, by our love for family and neighborhood, by our deep desire for a more peaceful world, and by our commitment to protect the freedom which is our legacy as Americans. These values have given a renewed sense of worth to our lives. They are infusing America with confidence and optimism that many thought we had lost.

  Ronald Reagan

  Christian, Daughter, Religious

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• 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

  Mean, Influence, Individual

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I have never thought of legacy or what I want to achieve.

  Maurice Levy

  Want, Achieve

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• They [Throne; legacy costumes] are made out of foam latex, which is basically what prosthetic makeup is made out of. So it's very delicate and very fragile. And then you put the electronics in there and you have a whole other level of fragility. So we had many suits and sometimes we would have to change out at lunchtime and send the other one to the "suit-hospital." It was like a surgery centre.

  Christine Bieselin Clark

  Makeup, Levels, Electronics

  Source: www.tribute.ca

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• We look at the legacy of Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells and Ella Baker, Malcolm X and Martin King. We have, and part of the struggle now in the age of [Barack] Obama is how do we keep alive the legacy of Martin King?

  Cornel West

  Kings, Struggle, Age

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• Which are you? Are you the single woman who is just barely getting by who will become an insignificant spinster one day? Or are you the kind that's more dangerous, leading the lost further into their lostness? Or is your singleness fueled by the power of the Spirit so that you are one who uses it for good, leaving a legacy of lives changed?

  Dannah Gresh

  Life Changing, Leaving, One Day

  FaceBook post by Dannah Gresh from Dec 24, 2016

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• I'll leave it to other people to evaluate the legacy of my book, but I'm very moved when musicians tell me that they've been inspired by my book.

  Michael Azerrad

  Book, People, Musician

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If we do not do something to prevent it, Africa's animals, and the places in which they live, will be lost to our world, and her children, forever. Before it is too late, we need your help to lay the foundation that will preserve this precious legacy long after we are gone.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Animal, Our World

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• It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you're lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Kids, Emotional

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• I never thought about leaving a tennis legacy. I always thought about leaving a legacy of fulfillment, living out your dreams, and giving back.

  Serena Williams

  Dream, Giving, Tennis

  Source: www.glamour.com

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