Quotes about Legacy
As I get older, I have a very strong urge to know about stuff. I want to learn the names of trees and birds; that's the sort of knowledge I want to pass on to my son.
— Bill Bailey
I wrote poems. That is my work. I am convinced... I believe that what I wrote will be useful to people not only now but in future generations.
— Joseph Brodsky
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.
— William Temple
Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
— Victor Hugo
God wants to use you to make a difference in His world. He wants to work through you. What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it. Not how long you lived, but how you lived.
— Rick Warren
I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.
— Tina Turner
James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful.
— Albert Einstein
I wouldn't want to live if I did not have my work. In any case, it's good that I'm already old and personally don't have to count on a prolonged future.
— Albert Einstein
If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!
— Anne Frank
There's never been a presidency that's done so much in such a short period of time, and we haven't even started the big work yet.
— Donald Trump
A good solid bit of work lasts.
— George Eliot
The foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.
— George Washington