Albert Pike Quotes

Your legacy makes a difference.

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.

If I die tomorrow or in a year, it is the same — it is the message you leave behind you that counts.

If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions.

You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things.And 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.

Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye, but the consequences of it will last forever.

I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered.

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

What does legacy mean? I never think or go there.

Great lives never go out; they go on.

That's why I named my album 'Finding Forever,' because that's what I was thinking about: What did I want to contribute to this world that would live beyond my physical existence?

I don't give a toss about being remembered after my death.

Not only can you not plan the impact you're going to have, you often won't recognize it even while you're having it.

The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you.

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

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

Either you make history or you will be history.

It is not necessary to live. But to leave our names beyond that point. That is necessary.

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

I'm part of history.

It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.

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

I think all creative people are operating from the fear that, of the best of what they did, will anybody remember it? Will anybody tell stories about them? Will anybody keep those pictures on the mantle long after they are gone? It's why people write stories. It's peoples' grave markers.

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