Legacy Quotes and Messages

Your life is your message to the world. Make sure it’s inspiring.

What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.

Are we being good ancestors?

There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

Legacy is not leaving something for people. It’s leaving something in people.

We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.

What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy.

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

Even though our time in this life is temporary, if we live well enough, our legacy will last forever.

The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.

I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories.

What we do now echoes in eternity.

Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.

The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.

The past is a pebble in my shoe.

That is your legacy on this earth when you leave this earth: how many hearts you touched.

If you’re going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can’t be erased.

The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Please think about your legacy because you are writing it every day.

The only thing you take with you when you’re gone is what you leave behind.