Hermann Goering Quotes

Some day I will be better remembered.

To have a statue of you up 100 years from now at the Superdome, I think that's amazing.

To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts.

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

I'd like to be remembered as the greatest ever.

I don't actually think about going down in history.

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

I don't think about my legacy, if indeed, I have one.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

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

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now.

I want to go down in history.

If somebody wants to sing my songs after I'm gone, nobody will be happier than my dead body.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

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

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

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

The President of today is the postage stamp of tomorrow.

We should not put up statues of living people. We make ourselves hostage to fortune.

It is not necessary to live. But to leave our names beyond that point. That is necessary.

It sure is a nice feeling to know that people will remember you after you're gone, that you'll manage to be a little bit of history.

To think I thought you could lose your place in history.