Quotes about Legacy
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
- Steve Jobs
The dead should not rule the living.
- Thomas Jefferson
You have one chance to write the story of your life. Make it a bestseller.
- Karen Kingsbury
Life is short, but art is long. Sophocles is dead, but Oedipus lives on…Each of us when we read a great piece of literature is a little more human than before.
- James Sire
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
No treasure-house of Atreus was ever as rich as a well-stored memory.
- Edith Wharton
For four or five generations it had been the rule of both houses that a young fellow should go to Columbia or Harvard, read law, and then lapse into more or less cultivated inaction.
- Edith Wharton
Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
- Edmund Burke
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
- Edmund Burke
No one cares about their reputation or their bank account when they find themselves in the shadow of death.
- Edward Welch
We are connected to things that have been forced on us, such as the sins of others
- Edward Welch
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
- Albert Camus