Quotes About Legacy

All living things eventually die. It's unavoidable. But as long as you remember, it will live on in your heart forever.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.

The only guarantee in life is death, but the only thing worse than death itself, is being forgotten.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your funeral.

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

Live as you would have wished to live when you are dying

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey - double and treble the reason for loving as well as working while it is day

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Death is really a great blessing for humanity without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not any hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient Stimulus to be creative.

A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

Only Napoleon did more than me. But I'm taller than him.

People joked that Forster became more renowned with every book he did not write.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it

Good teachers leave their footprints behind for others to walk in and continue the revolution.

It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.