Horace Mann Quotes

We will all be gone one day. Not as a negative thing - as a positive thing, too, you know, and we should leave something behind ourselves.

If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?

Man is remembered by his deeds.

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world.

I don't expect to live forever, nor do I repine over that, but I am weak enough to want to be remembered forever. - Yet how few of those who have lived, even of those who have accomplished far more than I have, linger on in world memory for even a single century after death

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

Oh, I'll be forgotten too, don't worry.

One comes, and one goes. Basically, what you leave behind is the record.

It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.

I don't give a toss about being remembered after my death.

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

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

I really want to leave something behind that means something when I'm no longer here.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

We just want to be remembered before something is set in stone.

Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away.

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

Just remember, that whatever your write about me, I was a man.