I’d rather make history than write it.
People asked me what I want as an epitaph: "He Tried".
Our pictures are our footprints. It’s the best way to tell people we were here.
Oh how hard it is to die and leave one’s Country no better than if one had never lived for it.
I just want to complete my legacy.
I want my grandchildren to be proud of me. That's the main thing.
When I meet somebody I want to leave a better impression than when I got there.
I don't think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.
When I die, I'd like' Friends' to be listed behind 'helping people.'
When you're dead, you're dead. No one is going to remember me when I'm dead. Oh, maybe a few friends will remember me affectionately. Being remembered isn't the most important thing, anyhow. It's what you do when you are here that's important.
I don't want people to remember me going through the motions.
I hope that I have given happiness to others. I hope I have given children to the world, and that I have made some kind of a mark for myself here.
I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.
That's what being a human is about, leaving this place better than we got it.
Work, work, work, but what mark do we leave, what point do we make? People who are too beholden to work become like erasers: as things move forward, they leave in their wake no trace of themselves.
One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you're in the room... Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you're not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.
I always knew I wanted to be somebody. I think that's where it begins. People decide, "I want to be somebody. I want to make a contribution. I want to leave my mark here." Then different factors contribute to how you will do that.
It's more important what you leave to people on this planet. I want my legacy to exist now, currently, not after I'm gone.
My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
It's challenging to open for someone: You've got to prep the audience, get them in the mood, and get their attention if they don't know you. You're going to show them what songs you've got. You've got to leave your mark.
I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave clues that help feed the human race. That's my aspiration.
I want to leave a great legacy behind, not just be a quarterback drafted in the first round who doesn't produce.
What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it.
It's about leaving a legacy. People will always remember what you did. That's why I run the way I run.
Legacy is not what I did for myself. It's what I'm doing for the next generation.
