William Hazlitt Quotes

That's why we're here: to leave a legacy that'll be remembered long after we're done. And what a great start to my legacy, man, being the first UFC flyweight champion.

I want to be remembered as part of the group of the greatest players ever.

As he enters his final term, with the elegiac music playing out there in the distance, Barack Obama will use the history that he has come to embody and, perhaps, even to fulfill, as part of a larger project that never will be completed but only finished, over and over again.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.

Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.

… a day that will live in world history …

Sometimes a President seems greater after he has left office than while he was in it.

Elvis is great and so is anybody who lasts like he does.

I've made my stamp on the earth. My name will go down in history, and if I never want to work again, I don't have to.

Of course, people will be partial, but I put myself among the best in history.

Most people who have had big fads have turned out to be just like their products: one-shot deals.

I don't think being undefeated is going to determine my greatness.

The fact that I can go to a museum and I can see one of my dresses there I start to think, 'Crikey!'

I want to make a serious legacy.

I'm really thankful for the popularity of 'Strong Woman Do Bong Soon,' but I know it's only temporary.

Like Grand Central Station, which is a marvelous building, the design and engineering of the Oculus will endure for many generations to come.

Legacy is really important to me. It's more important than dollars to me. So with that said, I try to find the fights that would solidify my legacy.

In Britain, we have this attitude that people are one-hit wonders. If it proves that way, I'd rather have had that one hit than not at all.

I want to go down in the history books with what I've achieved.

Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.

At first I didn’t give a damn to go down in history. I wanted to win. But the more I won, the more I thought about leaving something behind. Yes, it's as important as hell to me. I want to leave something that people will remember me by. Of course, a lot of boxers want to do that. But it's not easy. Take Larry Holmes, he was the big man after Muhammad Ali, he wanted to emulate him, but for some reason the public didn’t take him like they did to Ali. I think people won’t fully understand what I contributed to the sport for years.

When the legacy you leave behind lasts for hours, days or a lifetime, you matter.