Leaving a Mark Quotes

I’d rather make history than write it.

People asked me what I want as an epitaph: "He Tried".

Our pictures are our footprints. It’s the best way to tell people we were here.

Oh how hard it is to die and leave one’s Country no better than if one had never lived for it.

I just want to complete my legacy.

I want my grandchildren to be proud of me. That's the main thing.

When I die, I'd like' Friends' to be listed behind 'helping people.'

When I meet somebody I want to leave a better impression than when I got there.

I don't think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

When you're dead, you're dead. No one is going to remember me when I'm dead. Oh, maybe a few friends will remember me affectionately. Being remembered isn't the most important thing, anyhow. It's what you do when you are here that's important.

I hope that I have given happiness to others. I hope I have given children to the world, and that I have made some kind of a mark for myself here.

I don't want people to remember me going through the motions.

I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.

Work, work, work, but what mark do we leave, what point do we make? People who are too beholden to work become like erasers: as things move forward, they leave in their wake no trace of themselves.

That's what being a human is about, leaving this place better than we got it.

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.

It's challenging to open for someone: You've got to prep the audience, get them in the mood, and get their attention if they don't know you. You're going to show them what songs you've got. You've got to leave your mark.

I always knew I wanted to be somebody. I think that's where it begins. People decide, "I want to be somebody. I want to make a contribution. I want to leave my mark here." Then different factors contribute to how you will do that.

I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave clues that help feed the human race. That's my aspiration.

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

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

Come on! Don't hold back," Christian said. "I'm not, " Lissa protested. "You are too! I've seen you knock on a door harder than you're hitting me. " "That's a ridiculous metaphor. " "And, " he added, "you aren't aiming for my face. " "I don't want to leave a mark!" "Well, at the rate we're going, there's no danger of that, " he muttered

I want to leave a great legacy behind, not just be a quarterback drafted in the first round who doesn't produce.

What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it.