Quotes About Legacy

Share the passion and action of your time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purpose.

Someday, someone will follow in my footsteps and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. And I wish him well.

I was born to be a remarkable woman; it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die.

If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live, I shall leave it, when I am summoned out of it, with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.

Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.

Oh, how a small portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living!

Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie.

Born of the sun they travelled a short while towards the sun And left the vivid air signed with their honour.

If I am a great man, then a good many of the great men of history are frauds.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.

Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more; though fallen great!

The glory that was Greece.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

When you're in your nineties and looking back, it's not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you've won. It's really what did you stand for. Did you make a positive difference for people?

I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an okay person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important.

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.

In the rush of daily living it's easy to forget all the remarkable people, real or fictional, who have been a part of your life. But if you just imagine they are near for a moment, you will realize that anyone who ever touched your heart is always with you, patiently waiting to emanate warmth and support whenever you remember to think of them.

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.

I shall not pass this way again: Then let me now relieve some pain, Remove some barrier from the road, Or brighten some one's heavy load.