Quotes About Legacy

The more success we have, the more greatness we step into and the more abundance we experience, the more responsibility we have to the world around us.

I want the world to be better because I was here. I want my life, my work, my family to mean something. If you are not making someone else's life better you are wasting your time. Your life will only become better by helping make other lives better.

world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Naming our kid was a real trial. I seize up when I have to name a document on my computer. I didn't name my son after me. What if he turns into a maniac? How'd you like to be Jeffrey Dahmer, Senior?

I know I'll die someday, but I buy books like an immortal.

Grandpa Zachary had died.

Sometimes it can take me a while to relearn my own songs, but I've gotten better over the years at keeping a record of the tunings I'm playing in and/or capo positions. But there are some songs from long ago that I've never been able to figure out. Songs that will never be finished

Has there always been someone like me to bury the bodies, to have regrets, to carry on after everyone else was dead?

Names belonged to where we had come from, not to who we were...

This is your last chance, Control. But it wasn't. It was, instead, an immolation. If he was remembered at all, it would be as the harbinger of disaster.

I want to lead an important life. I want to do it because I was born a human being.

It is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.

Thomas Jefferson

The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present.

You were born to be among the advisors and thinkers, the spiritual and moral leaders for your society. There is every reason for pride.

Oh, Pollyanna, Pollyanna, to think of the Harrington homestead ever coming to this! It isn't, dearie, Pollyanna at last soothed laughingly. It's the Carews that are COMING TO THE HARRINGTON HOMESTEAD!

Estoy y estuve en muchos ojos. Yo solo soy memoria y la memoria que de mí se tenga.

En aquel entonces también las palabras me parecieron de piedra, solo que de piedra fluida y cristalina. La piedra se solidificaba al terminar cada palabra, para quedar escrita para siempre en el tiempo. ¿No eran así las palabras de tus mayores?

Lo más importante de esta vida era que moríamos.

los hombres que pasen por aquí no tengan ni memoria de que fui Ixtepec.

History is written by the last fellow at the typewriter.

The dead man has no place in Parliament; he cannot bequeath his membership and he can never know for certain who will succeed him after his death.

Ben poco del male che si può dire dell'uomo e dell'umanità io non l'ho detto. E tuttavia l'orgoglio che provo per essa é ancora così grande che solo una cosa io odio veramente: il suo nemico, la morte.

Napoleon is said to have had hopes of August 15th. There is an irresistible attraction in the idea of linking one's name with a regularly recurring date.