Quotes about Legacy

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

What would you like your legacy to be?

To have created one of the most respected companies in the world. Not necessarily the biggest.

I shall die in my boots.
Kick open the saloon doors
Of Heaven or Hell,
Lasso the darkest hombre
And shoot any hat in the house
Who doesn't buy me a drink.

In terms of being remembered, I think I want to make the world a better place. That's a pretty generic answer, but I mean it in several ways. One is through Google, the company, in terms of giving people access to information. I'm sure I will do other endeavors in terms of technologies and businesses. The second is just through philanthropy. I don't have a significant amount of wealth beyond that on paper right now, but I hope that I have the opportunity to direct resources to the right places. I think that is the most important thing to me. I don't think my quality of life is really going to improve that much with more money.

There are only two lasting bequests we can give our children... one is roots, the other wings.

Don't ask yourself the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive.  And then go and do that.  Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.

If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.

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

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

A tribute, published October 22, 1931, to Thomas Alva Edison upon his death: THE passing of Thomas Alva Edison serves to direct our attention to the multitude of benefactions he bestowed upon all humanity during his many years of fruitful activity. It reminds us of the debt of gratitude we owe him as members of the human race. By his achievements, he laid the foundation for continued and greater development. His persistent efforts and indefatigable spirit multiplied many times the valuable opportunities for man, especially the young man. To each and every young man, Mr. Edison left a legacy of opportunities.

A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family.

In contemporary American public culture, the legacy of the consumer revolution of the 1960s is unmistakable. Today, there are few things more beloved of our masses than the figure of the cultural rebel, the defiant individualist resisting the mandates of the machine civilization. Whether he is an athlete decked out in a mowhawk and multiple-pierced ears, a policeman who plays by his own rules, an actor on a motorcycle, a soldier of fortune with explosive bow and arrow, or a rock star in leather jacket and sunglasses, the rebel has become the paramount cliché of our popular entertainment, and the pre-eminent symbol of the system he is supposed to be subverting. In advertising especially, he rules supreme

The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.

Regarding Ronald Reagan: Liberals correctly perceive the Reagan record as their most dangerous enemy. Why? Because what happened during the 1980s - prosperity at home (the longest period of peacetime growth in this nation's history, strength abroad - directly contradicts every liberal belief. Bill Clinton has confused many about the 1980s and the Reagan legacy. His patently false mantra states, "The rich got richer, the poor got poorer. The rich didn't pay their fair share, etc." The 1980s have been intentionally mischaracterized by slick liberal politicians with the complicity of the mainstream media.

The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy.

If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolute night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

In the struggle to defend the legacy of Leninism . . . [Stalin] proved himself to be an outstanding Marxist-Leninist fighter. . . . Stalin's works should, as before, be seriously studied . . . [to] see what is correct and what is not.

Doctrines have proven expendable; yet the legacy of faith persists.

LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.