Quotes About Legacy

We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

I am the owner of the sphere,Of the seven stars and the solar year,Of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain,Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world.

Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool it will be all one a hundred years hence.

Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others to leave the world a little better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Had Shastri been given another five years, there would have been no Nehru–Gandhi dynasty. Sanjay Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi would almost certainly still be alive, and in private life. The former would be a (failed) entrepreneur, the latter a recently retired airline pilot with a passion for photography. Finally, had Shastri lived longer, Sonia Gandhi would still be a devoted and loving housewife, and Rahul Gandhi perhaps a middle-level manager in a private sector company.

Sir Jadunath Sarkar

Kuomintang leader Chiang Kaishek

Most of them are remembered for their works, few are remembered in spite of them...for their finesse!"

We're all born dying, someone had said. What matters is only how we spend the instant we're given.

to have the right future, we need to lay down the right past, for that future to build on.

You're just a small piece. Death doesn't matter. The whole lives on.

Esta España de ahora, que vive como si estuviera de más en el mundo, no es sino la sombra de aquella otra que fue el brazo de Dios en la tierra

People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.

Yes, and for all his bluster about making D'ni great again, he had forgotten precisely what it was that had made the D'ni extraordinary. The reason why their empire had lasted for so long. It was not their power, nor the fact that they had once ruled a million worlds, it was their restraint, their astonishing humility.