Leaving a Legacy Quotes

It's better to burn out, than to fade away.

I’m better speaking with my own voice. That is one of the reasons I left the Senate

Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.

… we have one life on this planet. We have one chance to live it and to contribute to the future of society and the future of life. The only "afterlife" is what other people remember of you.

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this Earth. It's not going to be, 'It was a great platform. It was great to win the Super Bowl,' but really and truly what you're going to leave on this Earth is the influence on others.

I'd really like to make my mark in India.

I am not going to be a star. I am going to be a legend.

I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people.

It's difficult to leave FC Bayern. Everything has to fall in place to top this club if I do it.

Don't die old, die empty. That's the goal of life. Go to the cemetery and disappoint the graveyard.

There is a winner in you. You were created to be successful, to accomplish your goals, to leave your mark on this generation. You have greatness in you. The key is to get it out.

It's difficult to understand someone leaving Barca, with the best players in the world.

My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression.

We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.

Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

When I'm done with football, I want to be done with football. I don't want to have, Oh, did I leave too early?

To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.

I find that it's not the numbers but the quality of the audience. That's why it got to be such a big thing when I left Microsoft, because I had an interested audience; not huge, but passionate. The passionate ones are the ones who change society.

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.

Leave the woodpile higher than you found it.

I know it's near the end and when it's over I want to be able to say to myself - not anyone else - that I've given it everything. At least in the last part of my career.

My mother always told me that as you go through life, no matter what you do, or how you do it, you leave a little footprint, and that's your legacy.

It's more important what you leave to people on this planet. I want my legacy to exist now, currently, not after I'm gone.

My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.