Quotes About Legacy

A man, being born, is a debt; by his own self he is born to Death

Only one life 'Twill soon be past Only what's done For Christ will last.

A legacy of true value is a legacy made of more than money. It's a legacy conceived in wisdom, nurtured by principle, and sustained by character.

Achievement comes to someone when he is able to do great things for himself. Success comes when he develops leaders to do great things for him. But a legacy is created only when a person puts his organization into the position to do great things without him. -John C. Maxwell, The Twenty-one Irrefutable Laws of Leadership.

Remember that every person only lives for a short time, and you have to make that time pleasant for him.

A single moment that lasts a lifetime, still poisoning anything I come close to, to this day. Every person I touch.

What do people see in me on the first impression? ... Is there any imprint left from the love I knew? A rebirth mark?

Get up, go and be like him as much as one alive can be like the dead—without dying. Conceive him, yet be your death, too, almost. Like him be now, but only till the shadow of his end falls on the shadow of your being.

Future embalmers are certain to become adept at stretching the crepe skin of the cadaver that they are pickling in order to decipher its wrinkled legacy of tattoo graffiti that might inspire a bit of conversation after work with the pals down at the corner bar.

Until Washington crossed the Delaware, the triumph of the old order seemed inevitable. Thereafter, things would never be the same again.

Dean Rusk was a man without a shadow.

The Rouge was Henry Ford's greatest triumph, and with its completion he stood alone as the dominant figure in America and the entire developed world. He

He was ever conscious of his obligation to play well. Late in his career, when his legs were bothering him and the Yankees had a comfortable lead in a pennant race, a friend of his, columnist Jimmy Cannon, asked him why he played so hard—the games, after all, no longer meant so much. "Because there might be somebody out there who's never seen me play before," he answered.

Led Zeppelin created their music from a diet of Bert Jansch, Memphis Minnie, John Fahey, Billy Fury, Phil Spector, Richard 'Rabbit' Brown, Moby Grape, Manitas De Plata and Om Kalsoum. Those who came afterwards were content with a diet of Led Zeppelin, which is not the same thing at all.

And like Elvis, they are relying on the one commodity that endures after the voice is no longer quite the same, the moves have grown rusty, and the inspiration no longer flows quite as readily. That is the audience's deep, surprising love for the music they made in the past.

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was 272 words and he delivered it under three minutes. He labored on it for days. The "featured speaker," Edward Everett, rambled on for two hours. Most people don't even remember his name, never mind what he said.

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Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

When I shall be dead, the principles of which I am composed will still perform their part in the universe, and will be equally useful in the grand fabric, as when they composed this individual creature. The difference to the whole will be no greater betwixt my being in a chamber and in the open air. The one change is of more importance to me than the other; but not more so to the universe.

The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?