Shawnee Indian Proverb Quotes

When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.

There are heroes and then there are legends, heroes get remembered but legends never die.

See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.

Elvis' songs will always be there, and I hope mine will be after I'm gone.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats. Go back, discover the greats, and take it from there.

You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now.

Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you're Shakespeare or Milton. I have no hope of being remembered at all.

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams.

I am aware of the words 'national treasure' being attached to me occasionally. It just makes me feel old.

Great men have this in common with the Divinity that they never die entirely. Their spirit survives them.

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

I'd like to be remembered as the greatest ever.

You don't create legends out of other legends.

I think continually of those who were truly great...Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun, and left the vivid air signed with their honor.

The only greatness for man is immortality.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.