Quotes about Legacy

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

You can't just check out and think it will all be over. It won't be over for anyone who loves you. You'll only leave them to run after the pieces that scatter in the angry wind. You'll leave them desperately trying to solve the problems you wouldn't . . . all while plugging their own wounds. Even if you're like me, single without children, you could impact generations.

if you are 42 years old, you only have 36 more Christmases left with your family. If you are 57 years old, you only have 21 more summers to enjoy at the lake. If you're 63 years old, that's 15 more birthday cakes with your family. Fifteen! That's nothing! It makes you view life more seriously, doesn't it?

If today was the last day of my life, would I be happy with what I'm about to do?"[8]

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies

Does not the Wise Man tell us—"Life is like a ship that passeth through the waves: when it is gone by, the trace thereof cannot be found"?

We are the heirs of the ages

Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.

While President, I have been President, emphatically; I have used every ounce of power there was in the office.…I do not believe that any President ever had as thoroughly good a time as I have had, or has ever enjoyed himself as much.

There has not yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Sic transit gloria mundi [So passes away the glory of this world].