55 Legacy Quotes to Inspire You Living a Meaningful Life

1. "No legacy is so rich as honesty." - William Shakespeare

2. "Part of leaving your legacy is not worrying what everyone is saying about it." - Fabolous

3. “Legacy is not leaving something for people. It’s leaving something in people.” - Peter Strople

4. “The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” - William James

5. “Your legacy is every life you have touched.” - Maya Angelou

6. “What you leave behind matters more than what you take with you.” - Katrina Mayer

7. “Legacy is what people remember about you when you are gone.” - Unknown

8. "Each day we choose to live the legacy we want to leave." - Pam Farrel

9. “You live as long as you are remembered.” - Russian Proverb

10. "Create your legacy, and pass the baton." - Billie Jean King

11. “What you leave behind is woven into the lives of others.” - Pericles

12. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” - Winston Churchill

13. “The only thing you take with you when you’re gone is what you leave behind.” - John Allston

14. “The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.” - William James

15. "The only legacy I want is to be thought of as a winner." - Derek Jeter

1. “It is up to us to live based on the legacy that was left behind for us, and to leave our own that is worthy of our children, their children, and their children’s children.” - Christine Gregoire

2. "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." - Billy Graham

3. “Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.” - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

4. “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.” - Steve Saint

5. "Children are the legacy we leave behind for the age we will not live to see." - Aristotle

6. "The greatest legacy you can leave to your kids are happy memories; those special moments so much like rocks on the beach that are taken from the white sand and put in tiny boxes that lay unopened on shelves until one day they fall out and time repeats, with joy and sadness, in the child who is now an adult.” - Og Mandino

7. “It's very important that everyone knows that I really enjoy the things that have happened in my life. And I say to my kids... you're not going to be the biggest, fastest, prettiest, the best athlete, but you can be the nicest person that anyone has ever met in their life. And I want to leave the legacy that being kind is a true treasure.” - George Foreman

8. "I don't want to leave my kids an inheritance, I want to leave them a legacy" - Daymond John

1. "Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." - Warren Buffett

2. "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." - Dolly Parton

3. "Legacy is not what I did for myself. It's what I'm doing for the next generation." - Vitor Belfort

4. "Every person has a legacy. You may not know what your impact is, and it may not be something that you can write on your tombstone, but every person has an impact on this world." - Dara Horn

5. “Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.” - Shannon L. Alder

6. We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” - Chuck Palahniuk

7. "Our most important legacy will be the contributions we make to the lives of other human beings." - Thomas Kinkade

8. "Part of our purpose in life is to build a legacy – a consistent pattern of building into the lives of others." - Tony Dungy

9. “A legacy is not what is left tomorrow when you are gone. It’s what you give, create, impact, and contribute today while you are here that then happens to live on.” - Rasheed Ogunlaru

10. “Your legacy is not just what you accomplish in your life, but what you inspire others to accomplish in theirs.” - Greg King

11. “Legacy is not about leaving something for people, it’s about leaving something in people.” - Peter Strople

12. “The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.” - Benjamin Disraeli

13. "My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference." - Angelique Kidjo

14. "That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched." - Patti Davis

15. “Our stories are the greatest legacy we will leave to our friends. A life story longest-lasting legacy you will leave to future generations.” - Steve Saint

16. "My legacy is that I stayed on course...from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me." - Tina Turner

17. "A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself." - Bill Courtney

1. "If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased." - Maya Angelou

2. "No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind." - Taylor Swift

3. "We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock." - Kevin Costner

4. “Even though our time in this life is temporary, if we live well enough, our legacy will last forever.” - Idowu Koyenikan

5. “To leave a legacy of strength, dignity, and compassion is to truly live a life of purpose.” - Unknown

6. “The greatest legacy anyone can leave behind is to positively impact the lives of others.” - Roy T. Bennett

7. "We do make a difference - one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives. Whatever we do with whatever we have, we leave behind us a legacy for those who follow." - Stephen Covey

8. "It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations." - Christine Gregoire

9. "When the legacy you leave behind lasts for hours, days or a lifetime, you matter." - Seth Godin

10. “To leave a legacy is to leave a piece of yourself behind in every person you’ve touched.” - Unknown

11. "The best way to leave a legacy is to believe, teach, defend, and promote what is true." - Kevin DeYoung

12. "There is no greater legacy that we can leave our children and grandchildren than a peaceful and safer world." - Ted Turner

13. "What impact are you making, not only today, but for eternity? What impact are you making to leave a legacy?" - Kirk Cousins

14. "My mother always told me that as you go through life, no matter what you do, or how you do it, you leave a little footprint, and that's your legacy." - Jan Brewer

15. "If your life is motivated by your ambition to leave a legacy, what you'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition." - Rich Mullins