Robert Fulghum Quotes

What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.

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.

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

I don't believe in an afterlife. You live on in the people you influence during your lifetime.

One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is hard to tell.

There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

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

I'd like to end up sort of unforgettable.

You are what you leave behind.

I guess it's nice to know I still resonate in people's minds.

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.

You don't get to choose what your legacy is.

What you do does matter. And people do remember it and feel it.

No matter where you play, you want to be remembered.

People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go.

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.

Maybe heaven entailed more than a soul residing in a single place, but instead having pieces of yourself spread among the hearts and memories of people you've touched.

Only our memories allow that some people ever existed. That they mattered, or mattered too much.

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.

If what that man did in his life, makes the blood pulse through the body of others, and makes them believe deeper in something larger than life, then his essence, his spirit, will be immortalized by the storytellers, by the loyalty, by the memory, of those who honor him and make whatever the man did live forever.

People will summarize your life in one sentence - Pick it now.