While most people whittle their days chasing another buck, or a little bit more fame and attention, or a little bit more assurance that they're right or loved, death confronts all of us with a far more painful and important question: What is your legacy? How will the world be different and better when you're gone? What mark will you have made? What influence will you have caused? They say that a butterfly flapping its wings in Africa can cause a hurricane in Florida; well, what hurricanes will you leave in your wake?

The things you do for yourself are gone when you're gone, but the things you do for others become legacy.What do you wanna be remembered as?

I’m not important. Everyone will do just fine without me,” I say.
“Who cares about everyone? What about <i>me</i>?

What you do is your legacy.

Retired just means I don’t have a job description, and I can work on what I want now.

Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy.

I don’t worry about the impression they make on other people. I am shedding pride.

I don't need anybody's permission to be remembered. I will be. Whether they like it or not.

As long as I am breathing, your legacy will continue to live on.

With my career I want to either make something or make an impact. Writers both make something, and make an impact.

I don’t want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.” — William De Morgan

They will only care when you're gone.

What you do is your legacy. Don't sit around and wait for someone else to make the change you want to see. And don't think it takes a huge team to make that difference either.

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.