Quotes about Legacy
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
If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
— William Hazlitt
Old men make war, young men fight and die
— Winston Churchill
For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
— Dennis Prager
Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.
— Barack Obama