Quotes About Legacy

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

The world cannot live at the level of its great men.

Great times call for great men.

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.

Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of their greatness.

We must guarantee the quality of the existence of the men and women of tomorrow.

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored.

Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.

A great man is made so for others.

The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.

They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

No one will ever forget that night, and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me.

No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others

To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.

He [Napoleon] was as great as a man can be without morality.

Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.