CURATED COLLECTION

Thinking About Your Legacy

Legacy is not what you leave behind — it's what you cause to continue in others.

50 quotes found

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Leave a legacy, not just a memory.

—Jay-ZScholar & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • North America

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I want to do something splendid... something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead.

—Louisa May AlcottNovelist & Poet

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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Do not mourn for me; my words will live beyond the dust of my tomb.

—Nef'iPoet

Renaissance ERA • MENA

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We are all merely passers‑by, but some leave deeper footprints than others.

—Jaroslav SeifertPoet & Author

Late Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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The truest measure of a writer's success is not fame, but the resonance of their words.

—Edith TiempoPoet & Writer

Late Modern ERA • Southeast Asia

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Do not seek riches or power, for they are fleeting. Seek knowledge and wisdom, for they endure.

—Nizami GanjaviEpic Poet

Medieval ERA • Central Asia

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I want to make music that is timeless, that people can listen to forever.

—RihannaScholar & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • Caribbean

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Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

—OvidPoet

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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To live for virtue, and to die for fame.

—Torquato TassoPoet

Renaissance ERA • Southern Europe

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What we make endures. Everything else fades.

—WizkidAuthor & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • West Africa

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Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

—PythagorasPhilosopher & Mathematician

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

—CiceroStatesman, Lawyer & Philosopher

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.

—Blaise PascalMathematician, Physicist & Philosopher

Renaissance ERA • Western Europe

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Writing is a way of not dying completely.

—Rosa MonteroJournalist & Novelist

Digital Age ERA • Southern Europe

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Writing is work for eternity. If you write, you die twice — once bodily, once spiritually.

—Pramoedya Ananta ToerNovelist & Writer

Post-War ERA • Southeast Asia

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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

—Bill GatesEntrepreneur & Philanthropist

Late Modern ERA • North America

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The cause is hidden, but the result is known.

—OvidPoet

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves the heroes of the future.

—Jomo KenyattaPresident

Post-War ERA • East Africa

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Poetry, sometimes, is all that remains of life.

—Roberto BolañoNovelist & Poet

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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The past lives within us, a drumbeat in our bones.

—Sia FigielNovelist & Poet

Late Modern ERA • Oceania

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