"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."
"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."
"How you earn your money and build your career is how you earn your destiny and build your legacy"
"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."
"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."
"Create your legacy, and pass the baton."
"History is the essence of innumerable biographies."
"Legacy media accuses young people of being apathetic while actively attempting to remove them from the discussion."
"I just want to complete my legacy."
"The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born."
"Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy."
"My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football."
"It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away."
"Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions."
"I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy."
"Legacy is greater than currency."
"I see what other people do and what songwriters don't. They don't get out and take care of themselves. Producers turn themselves into a massive brand. Songwriters tend to be under someone else's umbrella. If you're building your own legacy, it can't be under an umbrella."
"Everyone leaves a legacy, whether they want to or not. The question is, “What kind of legacy will you leave?"
"When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once."