What do we leave behind when we're gone? A legacy isn’t just wealth or achievements, it’s the impact we have, the values we pass down, and the memories we create. This collection of powerful legacy quotes will inspire you to live with purpose, make a difference, and build a meaningful life. Let these words remind you that every choice shapes the story you leave behind.
No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
Taylor Swift
If you’re going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can’t be erased.
Maya Angelou
The past is a pebble in my shoe.
Edgar Allan Poe
Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.
Bill Gates
Legacy isn’t about statues or street names, it’s about the ripples you leave in the ocean of other people’s lives.
I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.
Jesus
Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be.
Ratan Tata
I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college.
Nicki Minaj
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
William James
Children are the legacy we leave for the time we will not live to see.
Aristotle
The goal isn’t to live forever. It is to create something that will.
Chuck Palahniuk
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
William Shakespeare
Our legacy is how we spend our time and who we spend it with.
Jim Stengel
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
Thomas Carlyle
True legacy isn’t a dusty old plaque, it’s the wisdom, laughter, and kindness you sneak into people’s hearts like little love notes.
Legacy is the ultimate person we become.
Mecha Constantine
Create your legacy, and pass the baton.
Billie Jean King
We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
David Brower
The only thing you take with you when you’re gone is what you leave behind.
John Allston
Forget etching your name in stone, etch it in the quirks, dreams, and belly laughs of those you’ve touched.
Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.
Gary Vaynerchuk
Be remembered for the right reasons. Leave a legacy and a smile in your heart beyond life.
Jasmina Siderovski
What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies, but being ripe. Being ripe.
Maurice Sendak
Do whatever you gotta do to chase your legacy every second of your life.
Ray Lewis
You won’t find real legacy in a bank account, but in the stories people tell about you with a grin and a tear.
Our most important legacy will be the contributions we make to the lives of other human beings.
Thomas Kinkade
What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy.
Leonard Sweet
You can’t leave a footprint that lasts if you’re always walking on tiptoe.
Marion Blakey
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
William Shakespeare
Plant kindness like confetti, and your legacy will sparkle in places you never even knew existed.
Build a life so meaningful that even your ghost gets standing ovations.
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
A true legacy isn’t just being remembered, it’s being the reason someone else believes in goodness a little more.
The best legacies aren’t written in history books; they’re doodled in the margins of people’s memories.
You are the posterity of your family. You are either continuing the progression or regression of your ancestors.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories.
Og Mandino
How you use the opportunities you’re given to affect the world around you will determine the legacy you leave behind.
Tony Dungy
It’s about the journey mine and yours and the lives we can touch the legacy we can leave and the world we can change for the better.
Tony Dungy
Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father’s expectations or make up for their father’s mistakes.
Barack Obama
