Quotes About Legacy

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

The truth of the matter is: you can create a great legacy, and inspire others, by giving it to philanthropic organizations.

Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me-- Virtue alone is true nobility!

The truth is that in my job, becoming old and becoming extinct are one and the same thing.

We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept.

It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.

Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.

Fame is what you have taken, / Character's what you give; / When to this truth you waken, / Then you begin to live.

Presentationally, Bill Clinton is a US President to die for. The truth is, far too many have.

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.

They spoke truth and a lot of people listened.... that voice, Kurt we miss you.

So many things come from people's parents lying to them about the truth about things. I feel like, once those ideas die with people, we'll be good in a couple of generations.

Tell the truth. Say what is happening. Allow what is, and allow it to be known. Bring your children up in a home that is clean and clear and honest. There is no greater legacy you can give them.

I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable.

Each American generation passes the torch of truth, liberty and justice in unbroken chain all the way down to the present. That torch is now in our hands, and we will use it to light up the world.

The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

The real truth is that [Harriet Tubman ] spirit is so powerful that it consumes you. I was literally reduced to basic breath and blinks while she inhabited my vessel and told her story through me.

Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.

The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.

Abe Lincoln died because he stood for liberty and truth.

Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.

If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space.