Quotes About Legacy

Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman Empire's did. The Romans had gladiators and Christian-hungry lions and that sort of thing. We have MTV.

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.

American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation on Earth. Their mercantile empire spanned the planet. They had the most potent and experienced army and navy the world had ever seen.

It's Alabama. They've been the powerhouse. The face of college football.

What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value.

War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.

If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am bad at my work.

With the help of personal introductions by Andrew Carnegie, diligence and an absolute burning desire to teach the world how to become successful, Napoleon Hill devoted nearly his entire adult lifetime creating practical content entrepreneurs need to become successful.

The book has had a good run. For 550 years, it was the most practical way to deliver writing to multiple readers.

I have continued to paint; my father - who was savaged by the critics - continued to paint until practically the last week of his life.

Shakespeare is practically our only link with the classic and the past. The future of education has much to do with whether we will be able to cling to him or not.

Legacies are built on the practices of your company.

I'm not a practicing Jew but my great-grandparents were. It's part of our family history.

I retire from competition with great pride at having had a positive impact on my sport. I intend to keep training and practicing martial arts for as long as I live, and I look forward to watching the new generation of champions carry our sport into the future.

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

My great grandfather was the last practicing Jew in my family. He died in 1982.

My teacher was still practicing Bach until his death at 89. I have no doubt that if I live that long, I'll be doing the same thing.

Let us now praise Barack Obama.

If there was no Bill Bowerman, there would have been no me. He had about as much of an impact on my life as any one person could have. He taught me about competition and ingrained it in me. He taught me not to praise ordinary performances.

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.

Having a chance to work with Dusty Rhodes, he has helped me so much that I can't even praise how much. The first time I saw him on WWE television in polka dots I never would have thought that guy would be such an influence on my career.

You can't know who you are unless you know where you came from and give praise to those who laid the foundation.

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.