Quotes About Legacy

To live without leaving a mark is a terrible thing. To die forgotten is even worse.

Good friends and excellent teachers - Stick close to them! Wealth and power are fleeting dreams but wise words perfume the world for ages.

Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings remain in us. They rule our thinking, our conduct, our attitude to others. The situation is a demonic paradox: we have toppled the system but we still carry its genes.

in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that suffering? without the overseer's whip, the slave's fear, the ruler's vanity? was not the monumentality of past epochs created by that which is negative and evil in man?

But destiny has an indelible memory.

Grief is the tribute we pay the dead," she said, matter-of-fact sympathy in her voice. "But they don't ask more than we can afford to give. They've never really gone from us, you know, those we love; they're part of our story, and we of theirs.

Duveen was not selling merely low upkeep, social distinction, and watermarks; he was selling immortality.

Since Duveen was able to assemble a large part of the Mellon Collection – and a large part of so many others besides – in one lifetime, it can be argued that he was the greatest collector in history.

Early in life, Duveen – who became Lord Duveen of Millbank before he died in 1939, at the age of sixty-nine – noticed that Europe had plenty of art and America had plenty of money, and his entire astonishing career was the product of that simple observation.

Tears won't saturate the dead and weeping will not raise him from his grave, if he has one. We should do for the living what we are unable to do for the dead.

The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

and it is also possible, that Saadat Hasan dies, but Manto remains alive.

His last years were beset with financial troubles; he drank heavily; he wrote to Chughtai on more than one occasion, pleading with her to find a way for him to come back to India. She was surprised to learn that far from large protests and signed declarations on his behalf, many in Pakistan felt he deserved to be punished. He died on January 18, 1955 in Lahore at the age of forty two.

Today we are called new writers. The coming tomorrow, considering us old, will lock us in closets, but that does not mean we have lived in vain.

No one hath come into the world for a continuance save him who leaveth behind him a good name.*

Though you may yourself abound in treasure, teach your son some handicraft; for a heavy purse of gold and silver may run to waste, but the purse of the artisan?s industry can never get empty.

O?lum, sen dünyada ne kadar antikal?k yapmak isteresen hayat önüne o kadar gündelik hadiseler ç?kar?yor. Korkuyorum ki bu, ömrünün sonuna kadar böyle devam edecek ve sen dünyan?n parma??n? a?z?nda b?rakacak bir i? beceremeden rahmeti rahmana kavu?acaks?n.

No wonder Gran had managed to run a brewery with such success for the past twenty-two years. She was a Machiavelli in skirts.

The best way to honor the dead was by making their passing useful to the living.

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.

If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.

I want you to understand: however big one is in the world, tomorrow morning if I fall dead or you fall dead, the world will go on just fine—maybe better—without us!

It doesn't matter who I meet, I will never speak to them in a manner that I regret later, because this meeting could be my last.

No tradition, however time-honoured, deserves to live on as anything more than a museum piece if it has outlived its relevance.