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Quotes About Legacy

We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.
~ John Knowles
Take those kids and raise them up, teach them how to drink out of a righteous cup.
~ James Brown
Peace is one of the greatest gifts we can leave our children.
~ Jon Jones
Together, we can make a U.S. Department of Peace into a reality, and leave a gift of peace for generations to come.
~ Joaquin Phoenix
Israel has done enormous amount of, for peace. I myself have done things that no prime minister previously had done.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
Rest in peace to Heath Ledger but I'm no joker
~ Drake
After a hundred years Nobody knows the place, Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace.
~ Emily Dickinson
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.
~ Henry A. Wallace
Not everyone who died had left a "memory" and not everyone who had left a memory had left a "blessed" one. Therefore, not all have died should be tagged "...of a blessed memory
~ Israelmore Ayivor
On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's birthday, I salute every individual who honors the core values of his legacy, making him proud of humanity.
~ Widad Akreyi
What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form.
~ Robert Gottlieb
You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness.
~ Cyrus the Great
A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
~ Chinua Achebe
I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there to the philosophy of our times
~ John Archibald Wheeler
The company ... has no rights to survive. But value systems and philosophies survive. People take them with them
~ Edgar Schein
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
~ Seneca the Younger
Philosophy always buries its undertakers.
~ Etienne Gilson
The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.
~ Plato
A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries; a principle, forever.
~ William George Jordan
Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.
~ Gelett Burgess
I don't want to accidentally end up looking back on my life to find that I'm ashamed of myself, I want to live a life I can be proud of.
~ Alice Bag
Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
~ George Santayana
Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.
~ Aldo Leopold