Quotes about Legacy
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
— Samuel Johnson
What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.
— Theodore Roosevelt
It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.
— Tina Fey
The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.
— Virginia Woolf
A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.
— Wendell Berry
The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.
— Victor Hugo
Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.
— William Wordsworth
Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us.
— JRR Tolkien
The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.
— Elbert Hubbard
I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.
— Ernest Hemingway
When a man of God dies, nothing of God dies.
— AW Tozer
Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.
— Barack Obama