True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people.Myles Munroe
Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They’re its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.Anna Quindlen
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.Woody Allen
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.D. Elton Trueblood
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.Nancy Friday
To leave the world a little better than you found it , that is the best thing a man can do.Paul Auster
It is not what you gather but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.Helen Walton
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.Albert Pine
We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.Chuck Palahniuk
Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.Albert Einstein
The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.Sextus Propertius
I don't fight for the money. I fight for my legacy. I fight for history. I fight for my people.Khabib Nurmagomedov
The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.Billy Graham
Everybody fights for money, of course, but I wanted to leave a legacy when I retired, get my name in the history. I don't think like that anymore. When I lost the belt, I saw how reality is. Champion means nothing.Jose Aldo
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.Orson Welles
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.Richard Whately
Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?Earl Wilson
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.Abraham Lincoln
I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.Lionel Messi
All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations.Michael Johnson
I didn't always know, but I always wanted to. I always wanted to be the very best receiver the Cowboys ever had. That was my goal coming in as a rookie and my goal throughout my career: being the best they ever had, going up in the Ring of Honor.Michael Irvin
It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my job.Aretha Franklin
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.Abraham Lincoln
To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.Albert Einstein
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.H. Jackson Brown Jr.
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.Lyndon B. Johnson