Quotes About Legacy

I continued up the stairs, this time on wings, suspecting for the first time that Louisa's book might outlive us all.

How comfortable to be dead and buried, with your virtues proclaimed upon the headstone of a nicely tended grave and all your faults forgotten.

Lincoln apparently never even thought of correcting his son.

I set out on my trip, imbued with the spirit of old Omar: Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and—sans End!

People are so proud of their names that they strive to perpetuate them at any cost.

Here is a method that deserves a whole chapter. Read history! Try to get the viewpoint of ten thousand years—and see how trivial YOUR troubles are, in terms of eternity!

For many centuries, nobles and magnates supported artists, musicians and authors so that their creative works would be dedicated to them.

Carnegie wanted to praise his assistants even on his tombstone. He wrote an epitaph for himself which read: "Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself.

Nothing could be worse, Thoreau wrote, than to come to the end of life and "discover that I had not lived.

Last words of his mother to his father: Keep eternity before the children.

What takes over when knowledge disappears is tradition.

The lessons I taught you, the tradition I have passed on, all that you heard me say or saw me do, put into practice; and the God of peace will be with you (Phil. 4:9, NEB).

our minds have come down to us through history

an aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick…

What happens in a room lingers there invisibly, all deeds, all words, always. Not seen, not heard, except by some, and even then imperfectly. In this very room both birth and death have taken place. Long ago, maybe, but the blood is still visible on certain days, when time wears thin.

Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason.

Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces. We must seize every opportunity to show kindness and to love fully.

The price of greatness...is responsibility - Winston Churchill

There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces.

So long as they speak your name, you shall never die.

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

In which year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man at Henley? Langdon had no idea, but he could imagine only one reason the question had been asked. Surely such a travesty has never occurred.

Memento mori," the monarch whispered. "Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces.

It seemed Eve's bite from the apple of knowledge was a debt women were doomed to pay for eternity.