Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.

My great-great-grandfather was a shah back in the 1800s. Unfortunately, I don't have any gold coins or jewels to show for it.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right.

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

The gentleman will please remember that when his half-civilized ancestors were hunting wild boar in Silesia, mine were princes of the earth.

People will not look forward to posterity who are not anxious to look backward to their ancestry

Sage and hero, side by side, Building for their sons the State Which they shall rule with pride

A noble life, crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth..

I'm proud of my dad's name. But I'm not running on my dad's name. I'm running on my dad's values.

When you see weakness in a hero, you are doing something to his identity. You take something away from the kids, the next generation; you steal away giving them anything to look up to.

I love the whole idea of family and what gets left behind when you are gone. I'm very proud of my children; I was one of seven.

I have goals, I have my purpose. I want to build upon what my grandpa and my dad and my stepdad did in the past.

For souls nobly born, valor doesn't await the passing of years

A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,-by deeds, not years.

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.