Randy Pausch Quotes

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

I want my children and grandchildren to see what I look like now.

When I die and my memories die with me, all that will remain will be thousands of yellowing photographs and 35mm negatives in my filing cabinets.

I hope people will like my novels after I'm dead. And I hope my children think about me in good ways, by and large.

I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my garage. I've never opened them. It'll be fun one day when Hazel is taller. She can play dress-up with her friends.

I think people love this idea of leaving a message for the future. I was always fascinated by the idea of time capsules.

Every person has a legacy. You may not know what your impact is, and it may not be something that you can write on your tombstone, but every person has an impact on this world.

I hope that, when I leave this planet, I will have touched a few people in a positive way. That's really what I hope I am remembered for the most.

I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it.

Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.

I sometimes look at my bookshelves today and wonder which volumes my sons will treasure in twenty or thirty years. Which should I be saving for them? Which will fade with time?

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

A legacy, or things like that, I've never really been a big thinker in that way. You know, it's kind of just been trying to go each day.

I had a great bond with my father. Even when I was a kid, my bond with my dad made me want to be a father myself one day.

Seeing my father's handwriting puts me in contact with the man he was at each stage of his life.

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

Make your life a story worth telling. You only get one shot at this existence, and one day when you’re gone the most important thing you’ll leave behind is the legacy of the life you lived. Make sure you make it a story you’re proud to have others tell.

LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.

I want to leave a souvenir of my life.

Someone now has to step up and take on the mantelpiece.

My original intention was to spend the money in my lifetime.

Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.

I don't want to just be an athlete. I kind of obsess on that sometimes. I don't want my son to be reading, oh, 'disappointment, just a scorer, selfish, didn't win enough, never quite the best' -- whatever. I want to be bigger than that. I want to shape my own destiny instead of just having him read about whatever on the back page.

You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

I think the legacy I'll leave on music is just an artist that went out here and gave 100%.