Quotes about Legacy
I don't think there is much history can say about me. I just want to be remembered as part of that collective.
— Nelson Mandela
Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.
— Cicero
I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.
— John Quincy Adams
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.
— Abraham Lincoln
The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.
— Ulysses S. Grant
I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.
— John Adams
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
— Abraham Lincoln
Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.
— Charles Dickens
My dearest Eden, I suppose, someday, after I have passed, you will dig through my journals and happen upon this letter. I pray that it finds you as amazed at the life God has gifted to you as I was when I discovered a daughter
— Susan May Warren
I always think about life, and I think that we are here with a mission, and once we have done our mission, we go somewhere else.
— Dani Alves
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
— George Bernard Shaw
The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on Earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping.
— George Muller