Legacy Quotes

"Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind" "We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives" "Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished." "You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall" "Posterity — you will never know how much it has cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it" "It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was" "Time is very precious to me. I don't know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too." "The history of the world is but the biography of great men" "While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future." "The life given us by nature is short but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal" "112"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of the past centuries" "A man who died at thirty-five will appear to distant generations as a young man, almost a boy, while his contemporaries who reached a ripe old age will always seem to me to have been born old." "We are always pursued by our origins. " "It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors." "The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children" "Building a personal brand is now easier than ever but it's not the same as building a legacy" "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died Rather we should thank God that such men lived" "The eyes of the nation are upon us. We are the stewards of its resources. We shall be remembered in spite of ourselves." "I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough" "Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists"