Quotes About Legacy

No,' he said. 'I don't think anyone dies happy...but you could die well.

Sons figured out they were bigger and never forgot it. Sons didn't care about the world they left for their sons or for their daughters, although they said they did when the time came to run for office.

The technological society has walked off the court, so to speak, but they've left all the basketballs behind. Someone will come along who remembers the game and teach it to the rest again.

but small towns have long memories and pass their horrors down ceremonially from generation to generation.

Sometimes, the past don't rest so easy. Why else do people study history?

It's from Balzac. 'Behind every great fortune there is a crime.' That was the theme I saw, even though the fortune ran through his fingers long before he was shot down in Cicero.

the former colony itself becoming colonialist.

One of the most immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of empires and great nations. Some Americans, however, believe their country to be so far beyond comparison with any other country or empire that has ever existed that it has passed beyond the reach of history.

President Johnson soon Americanized the war that resulted in the death of a generation.

The coup bound the United States to South Vietnam in an embrace that proved disastrous to them both. In a very real sense, it was Dulles's final legacy.

General Federico Tinoco

The talk around the congress was that "Moses had taken the Jews out of Egypt, and Stalin took them out of the Central Committee."305

There are also the Roman Catholic churches that display plaques in honor of Arthur Guinness, a Protestant, for his outspoken defense of Roman Catholic rights.

I am about to go the way of all the earth. So be strong and show yourself a man.

1. MANLY MEN DO MANLY THINGS. 2. MANLY MEN TEND THEIR FIELDS. 3. MANLY MEN BUILD MANLY MEN. 4. MANLY MEN LIVE TO THE GLORY OF GOD.

If you carefully consider what you wanted to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

One man asked another on the death of a mutual friend, "How much did he leave?" His friend responded, "He left it all.

How Many People on Their Deathbed Wish They'd Spent More Time at the Office?

How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office—or watching TV? The answer is, No one.

Level 5 leaders display a paradoxical combination of personal humility and professional will, channelling their energy, drive, creativity and discipline in to something larger and more enduring than themselves.

The body, the heart, the mind, and the spirit. The essence of these needs is captured in this phrase "to live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy.

Quality literature, such as the Great Books, the Harvard Classics

Now if I were sitting at that funeral we visualized earlier, and one of my children was about to speak, I would want his life to represent the victory of teaching, training, and disciplining with love over a period of years rather than the battle scars of quick fix skirmishes. I would want his heart and mind to be filled with the pleasant memories of

How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office—or watching TV? The answer is, No one. They think about their loved ones, their families, and those they have served.