Wayne Dyer Quotes

Imagine that your life's efforts serve as a mark of God and that the only way the divine is seen, heard or expressed is through the legacy you leave behind. The yearning to make a difference is your need to express your purpose and derive meaning from your time on earth.

When you touch the life of a man of this generation, that influence is felt through generations yet to come.

Legacy is not what I did for myself. It's what I'm doing for the next generation.

We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we made.

I never wanted to go to the Old Vic and not have it survive long after I was gone. It's not about me; it's about that theater. And the more that it's able to grow and do everything it should do without me, then I've done my job.

It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

The future that I will not live to see is the one my children will live in. That's my immortality. And I shouldn't try to mortgage theirs for my benefit.

People are very appreciative, and I'm always thrilled at how long the 'Morse' films have lasted. They seem to have an afterlife that goes on and on for decades, which is touching.

He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.

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.

I am now playing for 100 years hence.

Our music will continue to have an impact in people's lives long after we finally call it quits.

People would ask me about my legacy, and I would tell them my legacy is what I did. You can't change it. It's just what you do or what you did.

My hope is that, in years to come, people will still be watching 'The Clone Wars,' and they'll still hold up. That's my goal - time tested.

To know that there's a good chance that this is something that could potentially be around well after I leave this planet... it's a good feeling.

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

The No. 1 thing that I care about is the fact that I did my job by the children because that has a legacy that will far outlive me. Because it won't only be them, it will be how they impact their children and the next generation.

When the legacy you leave behind lasts for hours, days or a lifetime, you matter.

It doesn't hurt to look 75 to 100 years out, That's a gift to future generations.

Greatness comes by beginning something that doesn't end with you.

I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind.

If your vision dies with you, you failed.

Brothers, what we do in life........echoes in eternity.

What I leave behind has a life of its own.