G. H. Hardy Quotes

Be ambitious about things that last.

I hope I will have achieved something lasting.

I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.

I just want to complete my legacy.

To spend life for something which outlasts it.

Some people care about their work lasting forever - I have little interest in it.

Everybody fights for money, of course, but I wanted to leave a legacy when I retired, get my name in the history. I don't think like that anymore. When I lost the belt, I saw how reality is. Champion means nothing.

I'm very much into legacies.

That's why we're here: to leave a legacy that'll be remembered long after we're done. And what a great start to my legacy, man, being the first UFC flyweight champion.

My grandparents and my aunts tell me that I need to make a name for myself like my mother. Their thoughts really motivate me.

I want to add to my legacy because, in the end, that's going to be the most valuable for my career.

Toward the end of my career, people started talking Hall of Fame, but still, you don't ever think you're going to end up there.

I always know that people will only remember me for my efforts in Calgary which, I must admit, seem without doubt to have kept the name alive. But I honestly love law and really hope it can take off for me. I'm going for it.

It's a legacy thing, and when it's all said and done, I want to leave a legacy in whatever way. If not, if it's helping the division, if it's fighting big names, I just want to be remembered as one of the greatest all-time to ever do this in the sport. That's just what I want to do.

Legacy is really important to me. It's more important than dollars to me. So with that said, I try to find the fights that would solidify my legacy.

I want to leave a legacy, but to do that, I need to be on my best game.

I want to leave a great legacy behind me and continue to win major championships.

I want to go down in the history books with what I've achieved.

A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

My aim is to go down in history as one of the best.

I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.

NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life. preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation

If David Brent is the best thing that I ever come up with, then so be it. What are you supposed to do, time the best thing you do for just before you die?

You can spend your life watching other people win or beat your name into history.

Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That’s what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.