Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased."
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Legacy
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Ansel Adams
Photographer
"Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price."
Leon Trotsky
Revolutionary, Politician
"Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people."
Aesop Rock
Rapper
"The only bridge I've ever burned along this legacy I dance is the one that linked the cities of prosperity and chance."
Stephen Covey
Author, Speaker
"There are certain things that are fundamental to human fulfillment. The essence of these needs is captured in the phrase 'to live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy.' The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution."
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"The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution."
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"How can we create a cultural legacy of happiness? Let other people matter."
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"Your story is the greatest legacy that you will leave to your friends.It's the longest-lasting legacy you will leave to your heirs."
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"Ownership, that's what you give your kids. That's your legacy."
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"We get one opportunity in life, one chance at life to do whatever you're going to do, and lay your foundation and make whatever mark you're going to make. Whatever legacy you're going to leave; leave your legacy!"
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"The past is a pebble in my shoe."
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"If my life is motivated by my ambition to leave a legacy, what I'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition. But if my life is motivated by the power of the Spirit in me, if I live with the awareness of the indwelling Christ, if I allow His presence to guide my actions, to guide my motives, those sort of things. That's the only time I think we really leave a great legacy."
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"History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am."
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"The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith."
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"If your life is motivated by your ambition to leave a legacy, what you'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition."
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"Sometimes the facts of the crime are so distracting - there's been some tragic murder or horrific incident, and people aren't required to think as carefully and thoughtfully, and directly, about this legacy of racial inequality and structural poverty. And what it's contributing to these wrongful convictions."
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"I can't think of a greater legacy than, "Because you lived, another species survived.""
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"What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?"
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"To live; to love; to learn; and to leave a legacy."
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"My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone."
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"Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy."
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"I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he perceived his life as a link in a continuous chain of those who served our nation and that he expected me to be a new and strong link in the same chain."
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"The message for the American youth is that this is a great country and we need to make sure that we pass on a heritage, a lineage and a legacy of American exceptionalism to each and everyone of you so that you can enjoy all the great liberties and freedoms that all the previous generations have had."
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"How you earn your money and build your career is how you earn your destiny and build your legacy"
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"In my belief, a harvest is also a legacy, for very often what you reap is, in the way of small miracles, more than you consciously know you have sown."
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