Top 100 Legacy Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Legacy is greater than currency.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

Also featured in: Short Motivational Quotes, Impact Quotes, Short Deep Quotes

2. “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Powerful Quotes

3. “Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.”

— Nikola Tesla

Also featured in: Future Quotes, Ambition Quotes, Quotes About Work

4. “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

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Morality Quotes, Character Quotes, Virtue Quotes

5. “Do whatever you have to do to make sure you chase your legacy every second of your life.”

— Ray Lewis

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Performance Quotes, Purpose Quotes

6. “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

— Winston Churchill

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Important Quotes, History Quotes

7. “The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Positive Life Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Friday Motivational Quotes, Good Morning Inspirational Quotes

8. “Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.”

— Kobe Bryant

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Wednesday Motivational Quotes, Basketball Quotes

9. “We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Fiction Quotes

10. “No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.”

— Terry Pratchett

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Influence Quotes, Clever Quotes

11. “To live; to love; to learn; and to leave a legacy.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Also featured in: Meaning Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Positive Motivation Quotes

12. “Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”

— Terry Pratchett

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Witty Quotes

13. “Every day create your history, every path you take you’re leaving your legacy.”

— Michael Jackson

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Short Positive Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Artist Quotes

14. “If you want to make history, you have to do historic things.”

— Kobe Bryant

Also featured in: Positive Motivation Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Greatness Quotes

15. “Do something worth remembering.”

— Elvis Presley

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes, Purpose Quotes

16. “The graveyard is the richest place on the surface of the earth because there you will see the books that were not published, ideas that were not harnessed, songs that were not sung, and drama pieces that were never acted.”

— Myles Munroe

Also featured in: Purpose Quotes, Quotes About Ideas

17. “Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”

— Mark Twain

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Life Is Short Quotes

18. “Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.”

— Linda Hogan

Also featured in: Identity Quotes, Deep Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes, Family Quotes

19. “Young man, make your name worth something.”

— Andrew Carnegie

Also featured in: Work Ethic Quotes, Career Development Quotes, Reputation Quotes

20. “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”

— Marcus Garvey

Also featured in: Identity Quotes, Culture Quotes, History Quotes

21. “Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.”

— Abraham Lincoln

Also featured in: Self-Worth Quotes, Excellence Quotes, History Quotes

22. “Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”

— David Mitchell

Also featured in: Kindness Quotes, Past Quotes

23. “We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Sunday Inspirational Quotes

24. “We never know how far reaching something we may think, say or do today will affect the lives of millions tomorrow.”

— B. J. Palmer

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Influence Quotes, Future Quotes

25. “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

Also featured in: Service Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Quotes About Giving, Virtue Quotes

26. “The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”

— William James

Also featured in: Meaning Quotes

27. “Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes, Have a Great Day Quotes, Reputation Quotes

28. “The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.”

— Walt Whitman

29. “If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Reputation Quotes, Personal Branding Quotes

30. “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Individuality Quotes, Quotes About Ideas, Genius Quotes

31. “Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Meaning Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes, Dedication Quotes

32. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”

— Thomas Campbell

Also featured in: Loss Quotes, Quotes About Heart, Healing Grief Quotes, I Miss You Quotes

33. “The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live. And most people are concerned about growing old rather than being effective.”

— Myles Munroe

Also featured in: Meaning Quotes, Service Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes

34. “The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Also featured in: Hero Quotes, Quotes About Memories

35. “The best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be.”

— Bret Hart

Also featured in: Victory Quotes, Epic Quotes, Reputation Quotes, Wrestling Quotes

36. “Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation. They will be the leaders of our country, the creators of our national wealth, those who care for and protect our people.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Quotes About Children, Growing Up Quotes

37. “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.”

— Og Mandino

Also featured in: Cute Quotes, Quotes About Children, Making Memories Quotes

38. “Leadership success is measured by the success of your successor.”

— Myles Munroe

39. “So don’t be average. Don’t be good. Don’t be great. Be phenomenal. Or be forgotten.”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Hustle Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Men, Motivational Workout Quotes

40. “I won’t be a rock star. I will be a legend.”

— Freddie Mercury

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Dreaming Big Quotes

41. “Democracy is “government of, by and for the people”.”

— Abraham Lincoln

Also featured in: Government Quotes, Democracy Quotes

42. “We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Make A Difference Quotes, Harmony Quotes, Diversity Quotes

43. “If your vision dies with you, you failed.”

— Myles Munroe

Also featured in: Dream Big Quotes, Vision Quotes

44. “Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.”

— Andy Stanley

Also featured in: Family Quotes, Quotes About Kids, Parenting Quotes

45. “I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family – and I don’t think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.”

— Frank Sinatra

Also featured in: Fulfillment Quotes, Contentment Quotes, Simple Life Quotes

46. “History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students, Quotes About Childhood

47. “I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”

— Frederick Douglass

Also featured in: Make A Difference Quotes, Conscience Quotes

48. “Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.”

— James Baldwin

49. “Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Culture Quotes

50. “Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Also featured in: Poetry Quotes, Humanism Quotes, Influence Quotes, Reputation Quotes