Quotes About Legacy

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

The first years of man must make provision for the last.

Nothing succeeds like one's own successor.

If Roosevelt were alive he'd turn in his grave.

You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away.

The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.

Since our boss will be retiring soon, it's been suggested that we give him a little momentum.

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.

Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing? ... What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that.

In the world to come they will not ask me, "Why were you not Moses?" They will ask me, "Why were you not Zusya?"

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood.

Our mothers and our grandmothers, some of them: moving to music not yet written.

Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.

The grandeur that was Rome.

The King is dead! Long live the King!

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.