Stefan Zweig Quotes

I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.

The test of greatness is the page of history.

Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.

You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things.And 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.

People should really think about when they see President Donald Trump, they should think about all the places that he was and could be. All the things he could be doing. The political motivators for many typical politicians of which he's not one, Mercy, money, power, prestige, fame, he had all of that.

The game will fade one day. I realize that success is one thing; impact is another. I live to impact people.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee.

It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples.

It is very difficult to capture over the centuries, the charisma of an individual.

… 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.

To know that someone decades later is still just as impactful as they were when they were alive, we need pioneers like that.

I can possibly say I have entertained and educated more people than anyone else in the world.

You want to be a part of the big card. You want to be part of history.

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.

My father's legacy is going to be talked about for hundreds and hundreds of years.

There's one form of immortality I like to think about. It's that all those who from the very first have given anything to the world are living in the world to-day.

You can make history, or you will be vilified by it.

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.

Her many achievements will be appreciated more as time goes on.

What are your choices? Whom are your choices for? Not just for yourself. Chose now whom you will serve, and that choice is going to affect the next generation, and the next generation, and the next. Choice never affects just one person alone. It goes on and on and the effect goes out into geography and history. You are part of history and your choices become part of history.

When you think about Walt [Disney]'s life, I don't know of anybody on Earth over the last hundred years who has touched as many people as he did. He's touched every nation on Earth.

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;--and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.

Over the years I have met a lot of important people, but no one as important as Elvis Presley.