Antoni Gaudi Quotes

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

But I think it's important that things endure.

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

Even if I don't finish, we need others to continue. It's got to keep going without me.

One test of leaders is how they make sure that their ideas and programs will live on after they’re gone.

To win victory is easy; to preserve its fruits, difficult.

I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.

The work needs to have a certain longevity. It lasts longer than we do.

No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations, in death as well as in life. Some would say (and I am one of them) that we can live fully only by making ourselves answerable to the claims of eternity as to those of time.

The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.

We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.

I'd like to continue to spread my message on conservation and make sure my dad's message - his legacy - lives on.

I want in 40 years to still be acting and to more than anything have longevity and not just be this huge flash in the pan and then disappear.

I can't stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We'll see what happens.

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 do not innovate. I transmit.

Having a child is sowing the seeds of your own obsolescence: birth is the fuse that leads to that other thing. You appear, you replace yourself, you die.

Every human essay must have defects. It will remain, therefore, to those now coming on the stage of public affairs, to perfect what has been so well begun by those going off it

We all leave unfinished work; we cannot complete it; those who come after us take it up and conform it to their will

If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like.

It's all very brilliant to build bridges and buildings, but long after we're gone, it will be the natural things in this world which will still be here.

The stuff that's good is the stuff that lives on.

When I think about my legacy, 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.

It takes a lot to become a dynasty.