Donnie Yen Quotes

Leaving a legacy behind is huge.

Oh, you know, your legacy's all you're gonna be remembered by.

Posterity is something I'm a big fan of because that's how you leave your legacy. Not to sound pompous, but just to be truthful.

To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts.

If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed.

I think we all want to be remembered for what we did.

… the whole earth is the sepulcher of famous men; and their story is not graven only on stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives.

I want to take care of my family for generations. I want to have my head turned into a bust in the Hall of Fame.

I want to build a legacy.

We build our legacy piece by piece, and maybe the whole world will remember you or maybe just a couple of people, but you do what you can to make sure you're still around after you're gone.

My legacy is secure.

It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

I want to go down in history.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.

Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you're Shakespeare or Milton. I have no hope of being remembered at all.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

I really want to leave something behind that means something when I'm no longer here.

Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.

You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us.

The test of greatness is the page of history.