Quotes About Legacy

With our limited lifespans, we mere mortals have to figure out what but to do with our time so that when it ends we aren't ashamed to put our name on it, call it our life.

God wants to welcome us all into his kingdom, but we need to begin working toward that here in our earthly lives. What we do in the here and now matters beyond the here and now. We waste so much time in this world with fleeting pleasures, and we forget about the things that really matter. Our life pursuits must not be for food that spoils, but toward that which endures to eternal life (John 6:27)

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

World history is the world's court.

The American head of state grew up with a mother on food stamps. The British head of state grew up with a mother on postage stamps. Is that a contrast that fills you with pride?

When you are approaching death, I thought, you won't think about your reinforcements—the likes and retweets—you'll think about your moments of flow.

Johann Sebastian Bach

MEFISTOFELE Non posso darvi tutti i torti. So bene che cos'è questa dottrina. Leggi e giurisprudenza si trasmettono per eredità come un male perenne, si trascinano di generazione in generazione e passano inavvertitamente da un luogo a un altro. La ragione finisce nell'assurdità, il beneficio in un danno.

A useless life is only an early death

Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Dear me! how long is art! And short is our life! I often know amid the scholar's strife A sinking feeling in my mind and heart. How difficult the means are to be found By which the primal sources may be breached; And long before the halfway point is reached, They bury a poor devil in the ground.

An unused life is an early death.

Was glänzt ist für den Augenblick geboren; Das Echte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

I won't mind dying if I can tell St. Peter a joke he hasn't heard.

It matters not how long we live but how.

It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.