Quotes About Legacy

If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.

There will be life after Mandela. On my last day I want to know that those who remain behind will say: 'The man who lies here has done his duty for his country and his people.'

A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.

This Nation was established by men who believed in God. ... You will see the evidence of this deep religious faith on every hand.

I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.

Nothing had excited me-the huge cars, the entourages, the bodyguards, the policeman jumping to attention, all meant nothing to me ... till I came to the old man's office. (On becoming prime minister)

The only thing my old man ever gave me was a beating.

I find any great man, black or white, I'm going to study him, learn him so he can't be great to me no more.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

His heritage to his children wasn't words or possessions, but an unspoken treasure, the treasure of his example as a man and a father.

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be not worth passing on to grandchildren.

This is all for Naieya (daughter), man. I will be a champion one day, I promised that to her.....And now that I have this opportunity I can't let her down.

I am only one man with one heart...Call me a demon, call me a monster...but I can't be the strongest forever...!!! — Whitebeard's response to his status as the "Strongest Man in the World".

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

Every ruler must remember three things. Firstly, that he rules man; secondly, that he rules according to law, and thirdly, that he does not rule for ever.

A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?