Leaving Legacy Quotes

I don't want people to remember me going through the motions.

You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so you'd better do some good while you are here.

Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

I know that my in-box will be so full the day that I leave the planet. So you try to stay interested in life and bring some kind of comfort and pleasure to others on this planet as you're going through this journey.

That's something I always say is good to do in life, is to leave our mark in this lifetime.

I think I got an Instamatic camera when I was 8 years old, and ever since then, I've liked to record things. I don't know why. Maybe it's just to kind of try to leave some kind of record behind.

It is our job to make a difference and leave the world a better place.

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

You do only live once, and I feel like if I'm able to make a difference on this planet and leave it just a little better than I found it, then I've done my job.

For me, success is, during this early pilgrimage, to leave the woodpile a little higher than I found it.

The decision to leave a company you founded and move on to a new project is never an easy one.

There are a lot of people who want to leave their children with a world that is in better shape.

I think there is a value in leaving the world a little better off, and movies can do that in a minor way.

For everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is still time, to turn himself into a universe of words.

Let us do the work that is before us, so that when our time here is over we will all watch the sun go down as we all must, and say truly, we have prepared our children for the dawn.

I have two daughters that are the loves of my life and I want to leave them a better world, a better country, a better state and a better city.

If I helped you through something or if I helped you find love or if I helped you find a way through heartbreak or whatever it is, then my job is done, and that's what I want to leave behind in this world.

My objective is not to play for money, as I just want to leave good memories. That is the most important thing!

It's funny, I don't even consider myself a rapper, I don't consider myself a designer, or even an actor. I just like creating stuff and trying to make good work, whatever it is. I don't care if it's designing toothbrushes. It's just making cool stuff to leave behind, that's all it is, it's nothing more.