Quotes About Legacy

...that great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.

All that I can say about Owen Hart, is that I hope that I can be, as good a man as him, so that I can see him again, someday.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.

Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.

We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.

The great city is the best organ of memory man has yet created.

A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.

The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows.

The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the end of his life is how not to disgrace them.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.

Did I follow Truth wherever she led, And stand against the whole world for a cause, And uphold the weak against the strong? If I did I would be remembered among men.

Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.

Man builds no structure which outlives a book.

Usually when an athlete gets a reputation it sticks with him, even when he's an old man.

I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing.

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive

My best and worst boss was the same man - my father. He never - and I mean never - took 'I can't' for an answer. He taught me the value system that, to this day, I have continued to practice.

The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.

There is a time in every man's life when he looks to his God, when he looks at his life, when he wonders how he will be remembered.

The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.

Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.