Joshua Chamberlain Quotes

For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart.

For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men.

… the whole earth is the sepulcher of famous men; and their story is not graven only on stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives.

Living, he made life beautiful. Dying, he made death divine

I want my name to be remembered for 1,000 years. That way, I will never be forgotten when I'm done inside the ring.

When you are dead, seek for your resting place not in the earth, but in the hearts of men.

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

Will history remember us, I wonder? I do hope so - to imagine that one might do something, touch an event somehow, & thereby transcend the bounds of a single human lifetime!

Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.

Our deaths become a part of our lives in the sense that with our deaths we give something to those who are left behind, as we have given our lives to them.

Great lives never go out; they go on.

Men die but an idea does not.

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

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

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.

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

The spirit of the Ultimate Warrior will live forever.

I want to be remembered as a guy who transcended boxing.

I’ll never die", he said. Before I could protest, Lucas put two fingers on my lips, his smile seemed to fill the room with lights and I realized he was telling a deeper kind of truth then I’d ever known before “You’ll live forever and being remembered by you is the only immortality I’ll ever need if I only live on as a part of you – Bianca, that’s my idea of heaven

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.

"Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body.

The history of struggle is rich with stories of heroes and heroines - some of them leaders, some of them followers, all of them deserve to be remembered.

To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.