Quotes about Legacy
I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation.
— Ronald Reagan
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
— DH Lawrence
Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The great thing about the dead, they make space.
— John Updike
And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.
— John Lennon
Lord help me to see M. L. King as M. L. King in his true perspective.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.
— Lou Holtz
What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy.
— Leonard Sweet
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
— Benjamin Disraeli
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
— Peter Drucker
You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption.
— Beth Moore
He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.
— Edmund Burke