Legacy Quotes - Page 5

• The biggest thing that will define my legacy is how I've done it, and what I've done, and who I am. I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way. Went to the police academy to become a police officer. Get his master's in criminal justice, stayed out of trouble. Played for three different teams. Changed three different franchises around. This is a guy who they would have secret meetings about to change the rules. So, that's going to be my legacy: the most dominant player ever.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Team, Rap

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• It isn't easy to become a fossil. ... Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that is so, it means that the complete fossil legacy of all the Americans alive today - that's 270 million people with 206 bones each - will only be about 50 bones, one-quarter of a complete skeleton. That's not to say, of course, that any of these bones will ever actually be found.

  Bill Bryson

  Mean, Science, Skeletons

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• Living to create an earthly legacy is a short-sighted goal.

  Rick Warren

  Goal, Short Sighted

  Rick Warren (2004). “What on Earth Am I Here For?”

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• Love is the human family’s most precious legacy. Its richest bequest. Its golden inheritance.

  Michael Jackson

  Love Is, Inheritance, Golden

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• My work... is my legacy.

  Patrick Swayze

  Patrick Swayze, Lisa Niemi Swayze (2009). “The Time of My Life”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Jobs, People, Culture

  "Colleagues, friends react to Steve Jobs' death, www.cnn.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Our days are numbered. One of the primary goals in our lives should be to prepare for our last day. The legacy we leave is not just in our possessions, but in the quality of our lives. What preparations should we be making now? The greatest waste in all of our earth, which cannot be recycled or reclaimed, is our waste of the time that God has given us each day.

  Billy Graham

  Goal, Preparation, Quality

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• 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

  Bars, Weight, Forget

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• I don't want to leave my kids an inheritance, I want to leave them a legacy

  Daymond John

  Kids, Want, Inheritance

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• I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach that are plucked from the white sand and placed in tiny boxes that lay undisturbed on tall shelves until one day they spill out and time repeats itself, with joy and sweet sadness, in the child now an adult.

  Og Mandino

  Beach, Sweet, Memories

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Choice: A Surprising New Message of Hope”, p.103, Bantam

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• My legacy doesn't matter. It isn't important that I be remembered. It's important that when I stand before the Lord, he says, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.' I want to finish strong.

  James Dobson

  Strong, Faithful Servants, Important

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• 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

  I Love You, Jobs, Passion

  "Hello? Is This The Country Album You're Looking For?". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. April 2, 2012.

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• All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.

  Wernher von Braun

  Children, Taken, Possession

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• The only legacy I want is to be thought of as a winner.

  Derek Jeter

  Want, Winner

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• In order to reveal the gifts that lie beneath the surface of your heart’s greatest desires, you must look beyond your years here on earth, reconnect with the Divine, and bring forth your soul’s legacy into the present moment.

  Debbie Ford

  Lying, Heart, Order

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• Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations.

  Nelly Furtado

  Nature, Connections, Generations

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• Whether they [left in America are] anarcho-communists, anarcho-syndicalists, or libertarians who believe in free enterprise, I regard theirs as the real legacy of the left, and I feel much closer, ideologically, to such individuals than I do to the totalitarian liberals and Marxist-Leninists of today.

  Murray Bookchin

  Real, Believe, America

  Source: reason.com

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• Many people spend their lives trying to create a lasting legacy on earth. They want to be remembered when they're gone. Yet, what ultimately matters most will not be what others say about your life but what God says.

  Rick Warren

  Life, Christian, People

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Nov 04, 2015

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• We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion is a social contrivance, that, like virtually every public construct, is a legacy of a primordial and tribal mentality.

  Jamake Highwater

  People, Outsiders, Granted

  Jamake Highwater (1997). “The Mythology of Transgression: Homosexuality as Metaphor”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• First and foremost, it's important to remember that, from my perspective at least, my most important legacy was making sure that the world didn't go into a Great Depression.

  Barack Obama

  Perspective, Important, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind

  Joseph Addison

  Book, Genius, Mankind

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.216

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• If he's chasing the full restoration of his legacy, he's chasing something that he really can't get.

  Jim Lampley

  Restoration, Chasing, Ifs

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• Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.

  George Voinovich

  Peace, Iraq, Path

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• I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions.

  Sheldon Adelson

  Pay, Humanitarian, Billions

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• I ask the American people to consider the legacy this administration has handed us in the defense budget as we spend billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars without the tools and ability to track these dollars.

  Rick Larsen

  People, Track, Dollars

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