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To create a legacy is to create something that will outlive you …

• Legacy: Something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past.  Merriam Webster
• Do something that the world would care about for years after you have passed on. Lorrin L. Lee
• Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
• How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life? Grant M. Bright
• Outlive your life! Max Lucado
• The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. William James
• We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever. The goal is to create something that will. Chuck Palahniuk
• Making a difference,  Contribution,  Death,  Purpose,  Meaning

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… to leave something behind when you die

• Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there. It doesn’t matter what you do, he said, 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. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.  Ray Bradbury
• Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. John Green
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A legacy makes others grateful you lived

• The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude. Thornton Wilder
• Gratitude,  Appreciation

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Creating a legacy can give great meaning and purpose to life …

• 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.  Stephen Covey
• “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 live is our physical need for such things as food, clothing, shelter, economical well-being, health. The need to love is our social need to relate to other people, to belong, to love and to be loved. The need to learn is our mental need to develop and to grow. And the need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution. Stephen Covey
• Life without direction, life without purpose, life without intent will surely rob you of your legacy. Go make waves! Chris Holmes
• Meaning,  Purpose

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… for creating a legacy is one of the great reasons we live

• Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy. Stephen Covey
• The goal isn’t to live forever; the goal is to create something that will.
• The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. William James
• The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. Nelson Henderson

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Your legacy tomorrow is something you create today

• Legacy is not what’s left tomorrow when you’re gone. It’s what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you’re here that then happens to live on. Rasheed Ogunlaru
• Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson

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Therefore, think about your legacy now, not when it’s too late

• Our days are numbered. One of the primary goals in our lives should be to prepare for our last day. The legacy we leave is not just in our possessions, but in the quality of our lives. What preparations should we be making now? The greatest waste in all of our earth, which cannot be recycled or reclaimed, is our waste of the time that God has given us each day. Bill Graham
• Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day. Gary Vaynerchuck
• Making a start

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To create a legacy is a form of immortality …

• Only the passionate were immortal, it seemed. If you fought, screwed, screamed, laughed, or otherwise experienced life intensely, for better or worse, you left a record. Those who lived a quiet, well-behaved, well-tempered life? Gone without a trace. Magnus Flyte
• Wealth may last a lifetime. A legacy of good deeds lasts forever.
• If a man can bridge the gap between life and death,if he can live after he’s died, then maybe he was a great man. Immortality is the only true success. James Dean
• Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying. Gerard Way
• Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality. Jackson Brown, Jr
• The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality. Winston Churchill
• If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality. Walter Gropius
• What we do now echoes in eternity. Marcus Aurelius
• In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever. Will Durant
• Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal… This is the artist’s way of scribbling ‘Kilroy was here’ on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass. William Faulkner
• Immortality is a by-product of good work. Mel Brooks

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… for to be remembered after you die is not to die

• Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken? Terry Pratchett
• I mean they say you die twice. Once when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.  Banksy
• I wish to go on living even after my death. Anne Frank
• Let no one weep for me or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men. Quintus Ennius
• One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. Antonio Porchia
• To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. Thomas Campbell
• 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

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What you leave behind is all you take with you

• The only thing you take with you when you’re gone is what you leave behind. John Allston

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Create a legacy by carving your name on hearts, not tombstones

• What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. Pericles
• 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

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Create a legacy by inspiring others to dream

• 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
• This is a lifelong journey—no matter how old you are, this process of finding what works and discovering your path gives your life meaning. You continually develop your understanding of your relationship to the highest goal. By creating from your highest goal and living on your path toward it, you inspire others. And this becomes your greatest legacy. Michael Ray
• Your life is your message to the world. Make sure it is inspiring.
• Dreams,  Inspiration

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Create a legacy by making a difference to others

• The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy. Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
• What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. Albert Pike
• What counts is not the mere fact that we lived. It is what difference we made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
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Create a legacy through your achievements

• Death comes to all but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. George Fabricius
• Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived. Pliny the Younger
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Create a legacy through the power of love for love is the greatest legacy of all

• When you make loving others the story of your life, there’s never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another. Oprah Winfrey
• We can’t all leave a prestigious background or lots of money to visit our children, but we can leave them a legacy of love. Naomi Rhode
• Love is the eternal legacy. Pepper Blair
• We are all here to serve in our own unique ways and to give back to the earth and to life what we have been given. We are here to contribute the one thing that makes us immortal: love.  We cannot hold on to the tree of life forever and we cannot live forever through our actions.  But if we act out of love, the sacrifices we perform will sustain those who come after us, and our garden will have many beautiful trees.  When we each make the choice to serve, no one will suffer because of someone else’s desires.  No tree will go without nourishment or be cut down to fulfill someone else’s wants.  Our garden will flourish because each seed will have rich soil and each leaf will be free to display its beautiful colors for all to see. It will be an awesome garden that will make the front page of every newspaper.  Bernie Siegel
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Create a legacy through the story of your life

• Our 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
• History is the essence of innumerable biographies. Thomas Carlyle
• We’re all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It’s a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it’s true, but then so’s everything. Charles de Lint
• Your life is your message to the world. Make sure it is inspiring.
• Be the author of your life story,  Stories

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Create a legacy by leaving behind happy memories

• I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach that are plucked from the white sand and placed in tiny boxes that lay undisturbed on tall shelves until one day they spill out and time repeats itself, with joy and sweet sadness, in the child now an adult. Og Mandino
• One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. Antonio Porchia
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Create a legacy by making sacrifices for future generations

• The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard. Gaylord Nelson

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Create a legacy by planting trees

• The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil. George Orwell
• The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. Nelson Henderson
• The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. Thornton Wilder
• Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. Warren Buffett
• A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. Elton Trueblood
• A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. Greek Proverb
• He that plants trees loves others beside himself. Thomas Fuller
• I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today. Penelope Keith, actress
• It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet. David Trueblood
• They who plant trees love others besides themselves. Thomas Fuller
• Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn’t necessarily expect to witness. Michael Pollan
• He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him. Henry Van Dyke
• Trees are the best monuments that a man can erect to his own memory. They speak his praises without flattery, and they are blessings to children yet unborn.  Lord Orrery
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Create a legacy by writing something …

• Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we’ll never meet. It’s the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: The history of how you felt.  Simon Van Booy
• Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children. Marguerite Yourcenar
• A writer doesn’t dream of riches and fame, though those things are nice. A true writer longs to leave behind a piece of themselves, something that withstands the test of time and is passed down for generations. K. Webb
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… or by doing something worth writing about

• If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. Benjamin Franklin

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Create a legacy by leaving behind a happy, well educated, well-loved family

• A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family. Thomas Scott
• There are only two lasting bequests we can give our children… one is roots, the other wings. Stephen Covey
• The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it. Sir Philip Sidney
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Create a legacy by living consciously

• A life lived consciously and virtuously reverberates eternal. Such is the legacy of the unsung hero. Randi G Fine
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Create a legacy through the power of your ideas

• The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal. William Lippmann
• You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy. Irving Kristol
• Ideas,  Creative thinking

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Create a legacy by leaving behind great art

• Neither painting nor landscape is dead, nor can it be killed. It is immortal. Carla Sanders
• Art is man’s distinctly human way of fighting death. Leonard Baskin
• Everything we see falls apart, vanishes. Nature is always the same, but nothing in her that appears to us, lasts. Our art must render the thrill of her permanence along with her elements, the appearance of all her changes. It must give us the taste of her eternity. Paul Cezanne
• I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. Ray Charles
• To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams. Giorgio de Chirico
• Blest be the art that can immortalize. William Cowper
• The work of most occupations goes up in smoke. A fine work of art will please for several lifetimes. Frank Webb
• Art is an immortal statement of the mortal. Ron Elstad
• Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations. Robert Genn
• Next to war, art is the greatest way to immortalize a reputation. Roman Genn
• For immortality, art’s probably not as good as having kids, but it runs a close second. Joseph P. Blodgett
• Write it, paint it, sculpt it, quilt it, collage it, set it to music, blog it, somehow, in some way, sometimes against great odds, we will tell our tale and leave behind traces of our existence. Martine Gourbault
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Create a legacy by creating a company

• What would you like your legacy to be? To have created one of the most respected companies in the world. Not necessarily the biggest. Richard Branson

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Do all you can to ensure your legacy is not a negative one

• If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors. Frank Herbert, Dune
• The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. William Shakespeare

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• No legacy is so rich as Honesty. William Shakespeare
• We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations. David Brower
• The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave. Tavis Smiley
• All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine. Jim Rohn
• The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. Benjamin Disraeli
• What we do now echoes in eternity. Marcus Aurelius
• Long after our monuments of brick and stone, vitriol, plastic and concrete have vanished, our words, our art, our legends and our myths will remain as a legacy. Harry J. Boyle
• What I have done cannot be taken from me. Eugene Delacroix
• To be human is to participate in human adventures that outlive us. Frank Feather
• I have executed a memorial longer lasting than bronze. Horace
• Every man wants to connect his life with something he thinks eternal. Andrew Mellon

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• When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is to die at once. Samuel Butler
• You know, it’s just one small step from legacy to lame duck. Bill Clinton
• I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying. Woody Allen
• If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. John Kenneth Galbraith

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