Legacy Quotes

• The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Alone
  • System
  • Unsafe

• What I am most proud of is the legacy of hope that FIFA and football leaves around the world. It makes all of the efforts and energy I pour into this job worth it.

  

  Sepp Blatter
  • World
  • Energy
  • Proud

• The studios mostly threw away the negatives of the classic films. They had no interest in their legacy.

  

  William Friedkin
  • Film
  • Interest
  • Classic

• It seems that every generation needs its public, tweedy, literary personality to sell its consumer electronics. To whatever degree I can live up to the Plimptonian legacy, I am humble and proud.

  

  John Hodgman
  • Up
  • Live
  • Proud

• I am not concerned about getting reelected. I can make the unpopular but necessary decision. Your focus from day one is on your legacy rather than political considerations.

  

  Benigno Aquino III
  • Political
  • Focus
  • Decision

• Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.

  

  Clive Anderson
  • People
  • Children
  • Interesting

• The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Legacy
  • Source
  • Human Genius

• You know, I think that anything you do at Apple... you feel a tremendous onus. You want to carry on the legacy of what it meant.

  

  Angela Ahrendts
  • Legacy

• As the blinding lights of heaven in a slow march approach, to caress the earth to wake her up, I too would like to be a part of the legacy by wishing you.

  

  Harshada Pathare
  • Heaven
  • Legacy

• It's always great to add to your legacy.

  

  Chris Jericho
  • Great
  • Legacy

• Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.

  

  bell hooks
  • America
  • Black
  • Taken

• I am not taking away the historical legacy, but it should not become a burden.

  

  Asghar Ali Engineer
  • Legacy
  • Historical
  • Burden

• I never thought about leaving a tennis legacy. I always thought about leaving a legacy of fulfillment, living out your dreams, and giving back.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Dream
  • Giving
  • Leaving

• At the end of our lives, we’ll discover that the best legacy we can leave our family and friends is our passion for the Savior.

  

  Aubrey Malphurs
  • Passion
  • Legacy
  • Savior

• I'd like to be remembered as someone who made a difference in the lives of young people - that I nurtured someone and taught them to pursue their dreams and their careers, to leave a legacy.

  

  Andre Leon Talley
  • People
  • Legacy

• I want to be respected as a writer and, like I said, I was really sick of people saying I was a two dimensional character. I want more to my legacy, I guess.

  

  Rashard Bradshaw
  • People
  • Character
  • Sick

• One of the most durable and destructive legacies of discrimination is the way we've internalized a sense of limitation; how so many in our community have come to expect so little from the world and from themselves.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Community
  • Legacy

• Why was the public so forgiving? Partly because everybody was still in love with the legacy of Steve Jobs, who was never the world’s most diplomatic guy (in fact, he may have invented Cheat 5 about pissing people off) but was somebody who never got accused of not giving a shit. People knew he lived and breathed his products, and in a world of depersonalized, manipulative commerce, that was exactly what it took to build brand loyalty, and in turn create the most golden of opportunities: the second chance. When you get a do-over on your screw-ups, you can almost always find the fix.

  

  Brian Wong
  • Public
  • Forgiving
  • Steve Jobs

• I want to make my own path and leave behind a good legacy for myself and honestly, I just want to be innovative and always down for other people. That's what I want to be remembered by. I want to inspire.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • People
  • Good
  • Path

• In a way players at the top should try to promote the game in their own countries as that is the legacy that makes you feel proud. If you have not done that you have failed as a sportsperson.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Player

• Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be.

  

  Ratan Tata
  • Simple
  • Values
  • Ethics

• I just want to complete my legacy.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Want
  • Legacy
  • Complete

• Our legacy is really the lives we touch, the inspiration we give, altering someone's plan - if even for a moment - and getting them to think, cry, laugh, argue. More than anything, we are remembered for our smiles; the ones we share with our closest and dearest, and the ones we bestow on a total stranger, who needed it RIGHT THEN, and God put you there to deliver.

  

  Carrie Hamilton
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • Inspiration

• Inherited wealth may be something easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to lose.

  

  Eric L. Haney
  • Poverty
  • Impossible
  • Wealth

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