Quotes About Legacy

I vecchi si aggrappano al potere e alle loro convinzioni, che ammettono tutti i loro vizi peggiori ma escludono il minimo errore e soffocano la minima innovazione dei giovani. Poi, grazie a Dio, muoiono e non possono fare più danni. Ma ormai noi, i giovani, siamo diventati vecchi, e ci sforziamo di quel po' di male che loro hanno lasciato incompiuto.

A miser is a person who is reluctant to spend and saves for those who will bury him.

A person who has not done any good in his life dies like a beast.

Don't bury the past if you have intentions of visiting the grave on its anniversary.

Don't complain that your wife doesn't make meals like your mother used to make if you don't make money like your father used to make.

For me, the person whose thoughts are still spoken is never dead.

He who leaves a good name does not die poor.

Marriage is something women do when they forget what their mother went through.

Question to you – who will remember you after you are dead?

Something you are doing everyday is what your children will remember the rest of their lives.

The greatest gift one person can give their children is love.

There are more people dead than alive; we all will be in the majority one day.

Yesterday is history we write today to repeat it tomorrow.

You know, we are all graveyard traveller, and we get there only when we stop travelling.

You'll become a lot better if you think about your death.

History is the graveyard of aristocracies.

It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star Game and an Old-timers' Game.

I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy to millions of Britain's families - will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.

If we die, said Louis, I want to die in the doorway of Tad's Steakhouse.

It was five forty-nine on the evening of 5 May 1821, and Napoleon was not quite fifty-two years old.

It must be good to die in the knowledge that one has done some truthful work...and to know that, as a result, one will live on in the memory of at least a few and leave a good example for those who come after.

The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave behind some souvenir in the shape of drawings and paintings – not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed.