Quotes about Legacy
Wouldn't it be well to give some of your bouquets before a man dies, and not go and load down his coffin? He can't enjoy them then.
— DL Moody
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
— Edmund Burke
The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude.
— Elie Wiesel
The world cannot live at the level of its great men.
— James G. Frazer
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.
— William Hazlitt
Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.
— Aristotle
A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The man who builds a factory, builds a temple.
— Calvin Coolidge
Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need him. And which will survive him.
— Elie Wiesel
When good men die their goodness does not perish.
— Euripides
You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.
— Henry Ford