Quotes about Legacy
One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
— Robert Frost
True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.
— JC Ryle
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.
— Khalil Gibran
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