Quotes About Legacy

Young man, make your name worth something.

Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.

THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh . . . And the same thing is happening to my generation.

When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

Nothing is possible without men; nothing is lasting without institutions.

You know, a man's life is the most precious thing in the world, isn't it? So isn't it odd that a man will insure everything but his life?

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.

Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color.

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.

I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, 'Wonderful. Just have a back-up profession like welding.'

Man begets, but land does not beget.

If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he has something of value to replace them.