Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

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

I don't think much about whether fans will remember me.

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

Things written, remain.

I think legacies are most meaningful with the impressions that a person can leave on a group of people.

You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things. I guess for the good or for the bad, it don't matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it's all said and done.

I think people in the future will come up to me and say, "Everything that you are and everything that you have is because of that butler [film]." Of course, that's Oprah's line from the movie, but I think it will resonate with my legacy with the movie.

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

Having people remember something that you did 25 years ago doesn't suck.

If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.

Every person has a legacy. You may not know what your impact is, and it may not be something that you can write on your tombstone, but every person has an impact on this world.

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

To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts.

When I'm asked about legacy, I say it's too early to talk about legacy.

My goal is that after I am dead and gone, I want people to remember me for the person I am.

It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.

You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.

I love making music and all that, but at the end of the day I don't think that's what people are going to remember about a person.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

I'm attending to my legacy, making sure that it travels the universe in the best shape I can get it into. For as long as I'm alive, I'll still be its interpreter.

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

The President of today is the postage stamp of tomorrow.

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.

That, for me, is the only real legacy: the idea that one has left a lingering trace in people's memories. In the end, that's all a director can hope to do.

You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.