Quotes about Legacy

It's like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it's solid so it's something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.

I'm trying to surround myself during my life with the eight people I'd surround my bed with on my death.

I wouldn't mind that as my epitaph.

He that has trained his children for heaven, rather than for earth- for God rather than for man- he is the parent who will be called wise at the last.

The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known.

I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.

Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.

Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth

I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.