Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United States, but their tenure in office and their legacy could not be more different.
That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.
The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.
The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.