50 Leaving A Legacy Quotes On Making A Lasting Mark

You have no idea what your legacy will be. Your legacy is what you do every day. Your legacy is every life you’ve touched, every person whose life was either moved or not. It’s every person you’ve harmed or helped. That’s your legacy.
- Maya Angelou

The great and glorious legacy of a human being is to live with purpose.
- Robin Sharma

Think about your legacy because you are adding to it every day.
- Gary Vaynerchuk

What we do in life, echoes in eternity.
- Maximus from Gladiator

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

Your story is the greatest legacy that you will leave to your friends. It's the longest-lasting legacy you will leave to your heirs.
- Steve Saint

All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine.
- Jim Rohn

This land, this water, this air, this planet – this is our legacy to our young.
- Paul Tsongas

Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.
- Stewart Udall

Are we being good ancestors?
- Jonas Salk

We are a continuum. In the same way that we reach back to our ancestors for our core values, so we, as guardians of our legacy, must reach ahead to future generations that come after us. And we do so with an awareness of sacredness in that reaching.
- Paul Tsongas

It is up to us to live based on the legacy that was left behind for us, and to leave our own that is worthy of our children, their children, and their children’s children.
- Christine Gregoire

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.
- Ernest Hemingway

Children are the legacy we leave behind for the age we will not live to see.
- Aristotle

We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock.
- Kevin Costner

I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach that are plucked from the white sand and placed in tiny boxes that lay undisturbed on tall shelves until one day they spill out and time repeats itself, with joy and sweet sadness, in the child now an adult.
- Og Mandino

There is nothing more important than parents passing on a generational legacy of faith and values to their children.
- James Dobson

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.
- Billy Graham

Our legacy will be defined by the victories and boldness by which our daughters and sons take on the challenges the world faces. I also wonder if perhaps the most important and long-lasting demonstration of one's humility lies in our ability to teach and mentor our children.
- Naveen Jain

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

If you’re going to live, leave behind a legacy. Make an impact on the world that can never be erased.
- Maya Angelou

What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.
- Ken Robinson

Death comes to everyone, but great acts build a monument which shall endure until the end of time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Do your little bit of good where you are; it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.
- Idowu Koyenikan

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

No matter what happens in your life, be kind to people. Being kind to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
- Taylor Swift

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
- Kobe Bryant

That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched.
- Patti Davis

The best impact you could leave is not some structure that is named after you or jewelry but rather a planet that has been affected and touched by your presence, joy, and positive actions.
- Jon Gordon

I think the whole world is dying to hear someone say, ‘I love you.’ I think that if I can leave the legacy of love and passion in the world, then I think I’ve done my job in a world that’s getting colder and colder by the day.
- Lionel Richie

Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.
- Shannon Alder

We build our legacy piece by piece, and maybe the whole world will remember you or maybe just a couple of people, but you do what you can to make sure you're still around after you're gone.
- David Lowery

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
- Benjamin Franklin

Language lets us reach out to people, to touch people with our deepest fears, hopes, losses, victories. To reach out to people who we’ll never meet. It’s the single greatest legacy you could ever leave to your children or your loved ones: The history of how you felt in your biggest moments.
- Simon Van Booy

Everyone should leave something behind when he dies, my grandpa said. A child or book or painting or house or wall built or pair of shoes made...It doesn't matter what a person does, he said, as long as you change something about the way it was before you made it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.
- Ray Bradbury

Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be.
- Ratan Tata

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Legacy is greater than currency.
- Gary Vaynerchuk

What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy.
- Leonard Sweet

I don’t want to leave my kids an inheritance. I want to leave them a legacy.
- Daymond John

Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
- Greek Proverb

Our legacy is how we spend our time and who we spend it with.
- Jim Stengel

No legacy is so rich as honesty.
- William Shakespeare

Legacy. What is legacy? It's planting seeds in the garden you won't get to see.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda

There’s only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
- Oscar Wilde

You make your mark by being true to who you are and letting that be your staple.
- Kat Graham