Quotes About Legacy

You don't honor anybody's memory by wasting the life you get to live when they lost theirs. Remember that.

I made my goodbyes and stole away the photos of them in their youth, leaving them to what they'd made of their lives.

In a period of less than 150 years, to progress from slavery to Pennsylvania Avenue speaks volumes about this family and our nation. Distracted by the rush of our everyday life, we might shrug it off today, but 100 years from now, historians will be discussing this precedent.

It's amazing what the living expect of the dying.

If the ultimate purpose of your life is your children, what's the purpose of your children's lives? To have your grandchildren? Isn't anyone's life ultimately meaningful in itself? If not, what's the point of propagating it ad infinitum?

A Latin phrase says: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Speak no ill of the dead. But it is better to say this way: Speak the truth of the living and speak the truth of the dead!

A man's greatness is neither determined by having great dreams nor by his determination to realize them; but by his contribution - however small may be - to the progression of the humanity, without forgetting other creatures as well!

All good that you have done for the humanity, keep it like a secret; do your goodness in the shadow! Let one day others find this secret, preferably long after you have passed away!

All men start life as a road-user and only few continue it as a road-creator!

Are you feeling helpless when you think about the dark roads of the future? Then read the biographies of the great men! Learn their life stories; they will lead you to the light! Buddha will lead you to the light; Gandhi will lead you to the light! Men of wider horizons will broaden our own horizons!

Between Napoleon and his army, always choose Napoleon; because He can create another army, but his army cannot create a Napoleon!

Bible says the tree is known by his fruit. We can also say that the great man is known by his undreamed dreams!

Do not bother about to be recorded in history, try not to become a thing of the past!

Do you want your name to live forever? You fool! Forget your name, try to save yourself! What use there is for you, if your name lives and you die? You fool!

Even if you are the Sun itself, don't be haughty, because you will nevertheless die down!

Every kindness we have done is a monument built in our name in the heart of God!

Every man must be a part of a progressive revolution at least once in his lifetime! This will leave him great honour and great memories for the future.

Moments fly, memories remain; and then memories fly, only memoirs remain and finally memoirs disappear, nothing remains!

My name will live forever, but I should not care about this at all, because I am not my name and my name is not me!

Nobody is born as a teacher and only a few die as a teacher!

Old houses are full with memories and that's why they resist to collapse!

On a soft snow, even a sparrow leaves a trace; the important thing is to leave a trace on a steel plate!

Our chair will remain empty one day, but our ideas will continue to sit on that chair! However in the very distant future, there will remain neither chair nor ideas! All will disappear!

Past has a very great superiority over the future: The future may not exist; but the past existed!