Quotes About Legacy

Nothing will remain of me... I die without seeing the sun rise on my country. You who are to see the dawn, welcome it, and do not forget those who fell during the night!

When a people cannot offer its daughters a tranquil home under the protection of sacred liberty, when a man can only leave to his widow blushes, tears to his mother, and slavery to his children, you do well to condemn yourself to perpetual chastity, stifling within you the germ of a future generation accursed!

Huwag mong kalimutan na kahit pamana sa sangkatauhan ang karunungan, walang nagtatamo nito kundi ang may puso.

I honour the father for the merit of his son, but I don't honour the son because of the father. Let everyone be rewarded or punished because of what he himself does, not what others do.

Never forget that if wisdom is the patrimony of mankind, only those of great heart will inherit it,

Sons must aspire to be greater than their fathers, but at our apron-strings we only teach them to be children.

Det er riktig at bestefaren din måtte forlate Spania, hadde greven av Barcelona sagt. - Men han forble konge til han døde. I en tone som gjorde inntrykk på gutten hadde han lagt til: - For, ser du, Juanito, en konge bør aldri abdisere. Det har han ingen rett til.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great deal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.

You must know where you are from in order to get where you are going.

Whatever happens, we'll all meet in that great card-index in the sky.

The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.

My annual pilgrimages to the dead involve a good deal of talking to myself (which serves as my principal internal gyroscope) and increasingly confirm that the older I get the more the dead take hold of me. I like the notion that my heart is a temple of memory in which they intermittently reside. I feel compelled, in some way or other, to complete their lives, to honor their gifts and sacrifices.

Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.

How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!

Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!

We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow;

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

when I see kings lying by those who deposed them,... or holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.