George Meredith Quotes

If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed.

Every moment is, in some ways, eternal. Once you put something into the world, it stays there.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

That's why I named my album 'Finding Forever,' because that's what I was thinking about: What did I want to contribute to this world that would live beyond my physical existence?

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

We build our legacy piece by piece, and maybe the whole world will remember you or maybe just a couple of people, but you do what you can to make sure you're still around after you're gone.

Posterity is something I'm a big fan of because that's how you leave your legacy. Not to sound pompous, but just to be truthful.

There is a certain immortality in the change that another person effects on another person.

You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things. I guess for the good or for the bad, it don't matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it's all said and done.

On great fields something stays.

It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

In great deeds something abides.

My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

I'm never looking at life in terms of legacy.

Great lives never go out; they go on.

I'm not a person who wants to die with my shoes on. I do not think I can be immortal. Maybe my deeds will be immortal. Not me.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create.

Men die but an idea does not.

Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

I certainly hope 'Dragon' can leave some legacy behind.