Quotes About Legacy

If a man can reach the latter days of his life with his soul intact, he has mastered life.

To reclaim our past and insist that it become a part of our human history is the task that lies before us. For the future requires that women, as well as men, shape the world destiny.

I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

[After her election to the British Parliament and being welcomed to 'the most exclusive men's club in Europe':] It won't be exclusive long. When I came in, I left the door wide open!

Men die the way they lived.

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

A good man's life is never quite ended; something of it always remains to touch and illuminate other lives.

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth.

I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.'

A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

Let us not mourn that such men died, but rejoice that such men lived.

People see my face, they hear my voice, and I know they're thinking about my father. That's OK - he was a great man.

To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.

I think the most moving part of my trip [to Africa] so far was seeing 92-year-old Nelson Mandela, and just thinking about his life. This man has lived through a struggle that few nations have known.

The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.