Quotes about Legacy

If I go back home to Wittenberg, I'll lie down in a coffin and give the maggots a fat doctor to eat.

Man soll bauen als wollt man ewig leben, und also leben als sollt man morgen sterben. One should build as if one would live forever, and live as though one would die tomorrow.

Simeon was the ancestor of Judas Iscariot.

Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. . . . But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

You can't leave footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

And now, I am dying beyond my means.

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

Rest as if you'll live forever; work as if you'll die today.

You were born a star; your deeds determine how brightly you'll shine.