Quotes About Legacy

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.

The whole of history is incomprehensible without him [Jesus].

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again—these are the essential conditions for the making of a people.

Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.

No entrance without any exit, no possible society without a spacious graveyard.

We must die without much delay, and corpses may not require such expansive wrappings, in order to go the way of all flesh.

Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is all that survives, as it eats its way along the blasting fuse. For this spark, history is merely an occasion, never a goal.

When once it is no longer possible to understand how a man gives his life for his country--and the time will come--then all is over with that faith also, and the idea of the Fatherland is dead; and then, perhaps, we shall be envied, as we envy the saints their inward and irresistible strength.

History is the footsteps of free men towards destiny.

Of course, no one is easier to terrorize than the person who believes that everything is over when his fleeting phenomenon is extinguished.

We cannot count on seeing our work completed here below, and happy is the man whose will is not too painfully invested in his efforts. No house is built, no plan created, in which ruin is not the cornerstone, and what lives imperishably in us does not reside in our works.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Il fuit ce monde qui efface les siècles des montagnes pour les mettre sous les roues des chemins de fer. (p. 76)

War is when young men dream of being grandfathers.

Les livres gardent l'empreinte d'une personne plus que les vêtements et les chaussures.

Anche il generale Bonaparte servì a difendere la rivoluzione francese contro la reazione europea, ma nel difenderla la strozzò. Lenin, Trotsky e compagni sono di sicuro dei rivoluzionari sinceri, così come essi intendono la rivoluzione, e non tradiranno; ma essi preparano i quadri governativi che serviranno a quelli che verranno dopo per profittare della rivoluzione ed ucciderla. Essi saranno le prime vittime del loro metodo, e con loro, io temo, cadrà la rivoluzione.

Any man who has $10 000 left when he dies is a failure.

Anyone who dies with more than a nickel in their pocket is a damn fool

Any man who dies with more than $10000 to his name is a failure.