Quotes About Legacy

Live your Life go to your grave empty don't let your dreams get buried under six feet of dirt

Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency.

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.

Ars moriendi ars vivendi est: the art of dying is the art of living. I had read that somewhere in my postgraduate days and remembered it as I sat at his side. Jason died as he had lived, in the heroic pursuit of understanding. His gift to the world would be the fruits of that understanding, not hoarded but freely distributed.

Things that happened hundreds of years ago are very much a part of your thinking right now...The past lives in us.

Let a Sense of Purpose Guide You Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings blessed death. —Leonardo da Vinci

For every famous martyr there are thousands more who have inspired neither a religion nor a rebellion, so that if martyrdom does sometimes grant a certain power, it does so unpredictably.

Así como un día rebosante trae consigo dulces sueños, una vida bien empleada procura una muerte dulce". CLAVES

For, as Cicero says, even those who argue against fame still want the books they write against it to bear their name in the title and hope to become famous for despising it. Everything else is subject to barter: we will let our friends have our goods and our lives if need be; but a case of sharing our fame and making someone else the gift of our reputation is hardly to be found. Montaigne, 1533-1592

The Laws of Human Nature, 17: Seize the Historical Moment—The Law of Generational Myopia

Let us look at the pedestrians in any busy city and realize that in ninety years it is likely that none of them will be alive, including us. Think of the millions and billions who have already come and gone, buried and long forgotten, rich and poor alike.

Character is destiny. —Heraclitus

Da Vinci había seguido fielmente su guía hasta el final y, habiendo completado su curso, era hora de morir. Quizá en ese momento regresaron a él estas palabras, escritas años atrás en su libreta: "Así como un día rebosante trae consigo dulces sueños, una vida bien empleada procura una muerte dulce".

Así como un día rebosante trae consigo dulces sueños, una vida bien empleada procura una muerte dulce".

you will feel differently about yourself. Your concept of time will expand and you will realize that if the past lives on in you, what you are doing today, the world you live in, will live on and affect the future, connecting you to the larger human spirit that moves through us all. You in this moment are a part of that unbroken chain. And this can be an intoxicating experience, a strange intimation of immortality.

The past often has elements worth appropriating, qualities that would be foolish to reject out of a need to distinguish yourself.... Making a display of doing things differently from your predecessor can make you seem childish and in fact out of control, unless your actions have a logic of their own.

Nothing is more important to a nation than its history. It is the earth upon which any society stands.

What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!

History has always fascinated me. As Cicero himself once wrote: 'To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?' I quickly forgot the cold and could have spent all day happily unwinding that roll, poring over the events of more than sixty years before.

The Hitler diaries affair is a monument to the cock-up theory of history.

It is in the nature of things that not all politicians can achieve greatness.

All that will remain of us is what is written down.

These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale -

Francis George: I expect to die in my bed, my successor will die in prison, and his successor will die a martyr in the public square.