How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one.
Stephen CoveyRead
The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Leaving a legacy reflects our inherent desire for meaning and purpose in life.
This quote by Stephen Covey highlights the intrinsic motivation humans have to establish a lasting impact through their actions and contributions. It suggests that the desire to leave a legacy stems from fundamental spiritual needs, including a quest for meaning, a sense of personal alignment, and a wish to contribute to something greater than oneself.
Themes
LegacyPurposeMeaningSpiritualContribution
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be shared during a graduation speech to inspire students to think about their future impact.
More from Stephen Covey
All quotes βIf you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent. If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee.
Stephen CoveyRead
Listen with your eyes for feelings.
Stephen CoveyRead
If we live out of our memory, we're tied to the past and to that which is finite. When we live out of our imagination, _x000D_ we're tied to that which is infinite.
Stephen CoveyRead
Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.
Stephen CoveyRead
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent and urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things.
Stephen CoveyRead
Similar quotes
Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves ... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.
William JamesRead
Man only becomes independent of this physical world when he learns to consider the objects around him as symbols. He must, for this reason, seek to acquire a moral relationship to them.
Rudolf SteinerRead
Humanity needs a new soil - the soil of freedom. Bohemianism was a reaction, a necessary reaction, but if my vision succeeds then there will be no bohemianism because there will be no so-called collective mind trying to dominate people. Then everybody will be at ease with himself. Of course, you have not to interfere with anybody, but as far as your life is concerned you have to live it on your own terms. Then only is there creativity. Creativity is the fragrance of individual freedom.
RajneeshRead
Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
Lord ActonRead
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
Charles LambRead
Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.
Luigi PirandelloRead