Samuel Smiles Quotes

It embodied what came before. Illuminated what came after.

It's very difficult to fill the shoes of somebody like Rahul Bhai. He has set the bench mark for a generation to come. However, it's our responsibility to carry forward his legacy.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

The future has a lot to do with the past.

Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.

We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying the torch.

The past is a present force.

… 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.

We are all the beneficiaries of those who have gone before us.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

You always stand on the shoulders of your predecessor.

You can see things growing up, be inspired by things. Just because they're not around anymore doesn't mean that you can't take those inspirations and bring them to life and bring them to the next generation.

Nothing I'm doing is without its predecessors.

Our goal is simple. It is to continue to inspire people through my father's legacy. There is a lot of value in continuing to put that energy out into the consciousness.

We build our legacy piece by piece, and maybe the whole world will remember you or maybe just a couple of people, but you do what you can to make sure you're still around after you're gone.

Posterity is something I'm a big fan of because that's how you leave your legacy. Not to sound pompous, but just to be truthful.

There is a certain immortality in the change that another person effects on another person.

Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.

The great men of earth are the shadow men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts. Thus living, though their footfalls are heard no more, their voices are louder than the thunder, and unceasing as the flow of tides or air.

People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go.

Create your legacy, and pass the baton.

Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.

The heart never forgets, never gives up, the territory marked off for those who came before.