Legacy Quotes

"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering." "You can kill the dreamer, but you can’t kill the dream." "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." "The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins" "Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me." "They say a midget standing on a giant's shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they tryin' to see further than I am" "My mother would look at me and she'd say, 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last." "People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them" "I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world." "No matter what happens in life be good to people Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind" "A man may die nations may rise and fall but an idea lives on" "Success isn’t about how much money you make, it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives." "If you died tomorrow, are there three things that your eulogists could say you did to make the world a better place for your having lived in it?" "Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." "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." "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying." "Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering." "Old age is just a record of one’s whole life." "I would like to be remembered as a man who won the heavyweight title three times. Who was humorous and who treated everyone right. As a man who never looked down on those who looked up to him, and who helped as many people as he could. As a man who stood u" "Friends can come and go, but banners hang forever."