Quotes About Legacy

Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to live ... while you have life in you, while you still can, make yourself good.

Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both. They were absorbed alike into the life force of the world, or dissolved alike into atoms.

and falling upon that earth, out of whose gifts and fruits my father gathered his seed, my mother her blood, and my nurse her milk, out of which for so many years I have been

Avanzo por los caminos que son conformes a la naturaleza hasta, tras caer, tomar un descanso; expiro en el aire de donde respiro cada día y caigo en la tierra de donde mi padre aportó su pequeña semilla, mi madre su pequeña cantidad de sangre[279], la nodriza su pequeña cantidad de leche, de donde me nutro y riego cada día durante tantos años, aquello que me lleva como caminante y que malgasto para mi propio perjuicio en tantas cosas.

That men of a certain type should behave as they do is inevitable. To wish it otherwise were to wish the fig-tree would not yield its juice. In any case, remember that in a very little while both you and he will be dead, and your very names will quickly be forgotten.

On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone. What more do I seek, if what I am now doing is work of an intelligent living being, and a social being, and one who is under the same law with God?

Look at the past with its endless succession of empires, and you see the future.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last

In a little while you too will close your eyes, and soon there will be others mourning the man who buries you.

Jangan bertingkah seolah-olah kau akan hidup hingga sepuluh ribu tahun. Kematian ada di dekatmu. Selama kau masih diberkahi hidup, selagi kau masih punya kemampuan, jadilah orang yang baik.

En cada una de tus acciones, hazte la pregunta ¿Cómo me va en eso?¿no tendré luego que arrepentirme de aquello? Dentro de poco habré muerto y todo se acabara ¿Qué mas puedo buscar, si obro al presente como un ser inteligente, sociable, relacionado, por igualdad de derechos con Dios?

Everything lasts for a day, the one who remembers and the remembered.

No longer wander at hazard; for neither will you read your own memoirs, nor the acts of the ancient Romans and Hellenes, and the selections from books you were reserving for your old age. Hasten then to your appointed end and, throwing away idle hopes, come to your own aid, if you care at all for yourself, while it is in your power.

Both he that praiseth, and he that is praised; he that remembers, and he that is remembered, will soon be dust and ashes.

You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.

Short then is the time which every man lives, and small the nook of the earth where he lives; and short too the longest posthumous fame...

So discard all else and secure these few things only. remind yourself too that each of us lives only in the present moment, a mere fragment of time; the rest is life past or uncertain future. Sure, life is a small thing, and small the cranny of the earth in which we live it; small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who will quickly die, and have no knowledge event of themselves, let alone of those long dead.

When near his death, being asked by the tribune for the watchword, he said, Go to the rising sun, for I am setting.

All things fade and quickly turn to myth: quickly too utter oblivion drowns them. And I am talking of those who shone with some wonderful brilliance: the rest, once they have breathed their last, are immediately 'beyond sigh, beyond knowledge'. But what in any case is everlasting memory? Utter emptiness.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

Our heroes are over there where the white crosses are. We're survivors over here. None of us are heroes. I don't think you'll talk to a man who say we are. You figure a hero is someone who does above and beyond the call of duty, and when you give your life that's as above and beyond as you can get - Earl McClung.

The only course open is to pledge myself to the cause of making sure that the things he died for are not forgotten.

The freedom I live with and enjoy was established in their blood. They didn't even know me, but they were paying a debt for generations to come.

The bottom line is it is going to get us all; we're all going to die"—then your response is likely to be one of self-protection in various ways. You will try to find security against the devouring power that will consume us all.