Rick Riordan Quotes

Whether you reach a lot of people or have a profound impact on a few people, their memories of you are your afterlife.

Josephine Baker is such an iconic woman that once you've touched her and she has touched you, it never goes away. I'm stuck with her. I'm sure 50 years from now, when they write my obituary, they will mention that I played Josephine Baker. It'll be on my epitaph.

You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things. I guess for the good or for the bad, it don't matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it's all said and done.

You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things.And I guess for the good or for the bad, it don't matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it's all said and done.

You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.

The best way to be missed when you're gone is to stand for something when you're here.

I certainly hope 'Dragon' can leave some legacy behind.

It is very difficult to capture over the centuries, the charisma of an individual.

Love leaves legacy. How you treated other people, not your wealth or accomplishments, is the most enduring impact you can leave on earth.

Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.

If I die tomorrow or in a year, it is the same — it is the message you leave behind you that counts.

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

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;--and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.

I say, without characters, fame lives long.

If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?

A great character, founded on the living rock of principle is, in fact, not a solitary phenomenon, to be at once perceived, limited, and described. It is a dispensation of Providence, designed to have not merely an immediate, but a continuous, progressive, and never-ending agency. It survives the man who possessed it; survives his age,--and perhaps, his country, his language.

When a great life sets it leaves an afterglow on the sky far into the night.

The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and leave an indelible stamp upon his race.

A great man is one sentence.

I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

The worse thing in the world is for an individual to live, breath and exist and leave this earth, die, and not make impact.

With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee.

You are what you leave behind.