Quotes About Legacy

I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.

I was once the typical daughter, then the easily recognizable wife, and then the quintessential mother. I seem always to have reminded people of someone in their family. Perhaps I am just the triumph of Plain Jane.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves.

Then out spake brave Horatius, The captain of the gate: "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods?"

A speech does not need to be eternal to be immortal.

But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.

The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on Life's parade shall meet The brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards, with solemn round The bivouac of the dead.

John Brown's body lies a mould'ring in the grave, His soul goes marching on.

Let's win this one for the Gipper.

What is success? 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 bit 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; That is to have succeeded.

Will you be satisfied with the fruit of your life's work? Will the efforts you are making now bring you satisfaction when the things of time are receding, and eternity looms ahead?

My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.

If you have a good name, if you are right more often than you are wrong, if your children respect you, if your grandchildren are glad to see you, if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble, if you can face your God and say, "I have done my best," then you are a success.

There is no business in the world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame: life is over before you have hardly begun your work.

Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.

The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime.

The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

The past is never dead-it is not even past.

The past is a funeral gone by.