King Hussein Quotes

… we have one life on this planet. We have one chance to live it and to contribute to the future of society and the future of life. The only "afterlife" is what other people remember of you.

I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

I don't want to be forgotten or not have helped as many people as I can before I pass.

I am not here forever, so I wanted to do the best for the coming generation.

We only have so much life left. Before I do die, I want to do something good for people.

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.

We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.

I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

At least one reason for trying to live lives that make a difference is that by so living, we hope we will not be forgotten by those who benefit from our trying to make a difference. Yet to try to insure we will not be forgotten too often results in desperate manipulative strategies that are doomed to fail.

Oh how hard it is to die and leave one’s Country no better than if one had never lived for it.

Legacy is not what I did for myself. It's what I'm doing for the next generation.

Everyone has to die someday. I'd rather die after doing something worthwhile.

I am sorry too," said Lupin. "Sorry I will never know [my son]... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life.

Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour; And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.

What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it.

May I not seem to have lived in vain.

My mother was a great woman. To look at her from the suffering she had gone through to bring us up - 20 children: 6 girls and 14 boys, but still she taught us to be decent and to respect ourselves, and that is one of the things that has kept me going, even after she passed.

As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.

If you devote yourself to more than yourself ... you will have more than yourself to show for yourself.

Before my death I hope to obtain my life.

Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away. Just the words 'I tried.' That's what this game of life is all about. Trying. There's the tryers, the criers, and the liars.

I hope that I have given happiness to others. I hope I have given children to the world, and that I have made some kind of a mark for myself here.