Louis Farrakhan Quotes

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.

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.

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

I care about my legacy.

If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.

History will treat me right.

I'm attending to my legacy, making sure that it travels the universe in the best shape I can get it into. For as long as I'm alive, I'll still be its interpreter.

Nobody can know what their legacy is going to be, you know?

I hope people can remember me as the greatest. Who knows?

I don't actually think about going down in history.

Legacy is something you talk about when you're dead - and I'm not dead yet.

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.

I've been being asked about my legacy since I was about 25 years old. I'm not sure you can have a legacy when you're 25 years old. Even 37. I'd like to have to be, like, 70 to have a legacy. I'm not even 100 percent sure what the word even means.

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

To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts.

When I'm asked about legacy, I say it's too early to talk about legacy.

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

I don't think much about whether fans will remember me.

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

What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.

Some day I will be better remembered.

I've had a wonderful life. What people are going to write about me 10 years after I'm dead - who cares?

I'd wish for my work to be remembered rather than myself.

I didn't want to just be remembered for 'War Horse.'