Impactful Legacy Quotes

'Mulan' holds a very special place in my heart. It's been 16 years since the film, but hordes of fans still come up and tell me how much she means to them.

We are returned to office to change the course of history—nothing less.

A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.

All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors but because he was a hero.

I have a divinely-ordained calling in my life to create a larger impact on human society.

There's a compelling reason why I belong in the Hall of Fame, but I understand the argument against me. My career didn't go like most, and I'm 100 percent fine with that because that's what resonates with people.

I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.

When Dr. King was murdered, I had no idea who he was. But as soon as I heard his words on television that night when I was 9 years old, I was dumbstruck, awestruck by their power.

To pursue your dreams, to have them come true, to have made a difference, to have changed society, to have fought against powerful forces... that's a life well-spent.

Figure out what you are meant to contribute to the world and make sure you contribute it

There are very few people who have had as much public impact as I've already had... without being elected to public office in Massachusetts.

I want to do what I love, which is act, and hopefully through that, leave a positive impact somehow, someway, with somebody.

The world is your stage. Make your mark.

No history of the world can be complete which does not mention Mary Helen Keller... whose overcoming of her blindness and deafness were arguably victories more important than those of Alexander the Great, because they have implications still for every living person.

My whole thing is I want to affect history in a positive way. I want the timeline to be, 100 years from now, when we look back, it's going to be like, the world was like this, and then Shameik Moore hit the world, and everything changed for the better. It was a new light. Something special.

I was born to be a teacher, and I'll die a teacher.