Bill Clinton Quotes

We are all just here for a time - whether in this building or even on this earth. But the values we hold dear will live on long after we have left this stage. Our responsibility, while we are here, is to breathe life into them; to imbue them with the strength of our convictions and the weight of our efforts.

My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.

We only live once, and how would you want to be remembered? I have kids. I have, due to my job, a probably higher responsibility to do good things in my life. But also, since I was a kid, I love doing things out of context, helping friends, being different, being a special kind of man is important for me.

The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this Earth.

It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.

Whenever I feel like I'm getting too far away from where I need to be, I think about my sons and the legacy I have to leave for them - and it always brings me back to reality.

I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.

I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights which they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.

We must all live so that our children do not have to pay for our deeds.

Our children are the living messages we send to a future we will ever see... Will we rob them of their destiny? Will we rob them of their dreams? No - we will not do that.

If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.

When I think about my legacy, I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.

I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.

I know I will leave my work unfinished. I just hope I planted enough seeds in my children and grandchildren that they will continue.

I am not here forever, so I wanted to do the best for the coming generation.

I didn't show up here to give your life purpose now that your life's over. That's up to you to figure out.

You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion that your work as well as your life is at an end.

What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we had.

Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life!

I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself.

Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.