Quotes About Legacy

To become a star is the beginning of the end. I don't really want to be saddled with a screen persona.

Memory dictates and history writes

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.

The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

Half a century ago in this court I was sworn in as the Member of Parliament for George. And here I am today I am not better than General De Wet. I am not better than President Steyn. Like them I stand firm in my principles. I can do no different. So help me God.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

Unsung, the noblest deed will die.

If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service or of the greatest injury to the dead man, at the very beginning of his journey thither.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Death is not the worst than can happen to men.

This expression of ours, "Father of a family."

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it.

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.

He made the city [Athens], great as it was when he took it, the greatest and richest of all cities, and grew to be superior in power to kings and tyrants. Some of these actually appointed him guardian of their sons, but he did not make his estate a single drachma greater than it was when his father left it to him.

They died,but not as lavish as their blood, Or thinking death itself was simply good; Their wishes neither were to live nor die, But to do both alike commendably.

Men, whither is your course taking you, who give all possible attention to the acquiring of money but give small thought to your sons to whom ye are to leave it?

When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer. (Technically a misquote, but I like the misquote better)

It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days