Eternal Recognition Quotes

Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That’s what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.

Being eternally known as Bond has no downside.

Mankind, devising some consolation for the frail and precarious duration of human life, have thought by the erection of monuments to glorify the memories of their ancestors with immortal honors. Some have employed the vivid delineations and colors of painting; some have carved statues from lifeless blocks of wood; while others, by engraving their inscriptions deep on tablets and monuments, have thought to transmit the virtues of those whom they honored to perpetual remembrance.

As long as you do things for God, you are a Hall of Famer in heaven's list.

I'd like to be remembered. I'd like to think that someday two guys will be talking in a bar and one of them will say something like, 'Yeah, he's a good shortstop, but he's not as good as ole Ripken was.'

Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.

I'm still the baddest expletive in the world. Yeah, I'm getting older, but Kareem got older. Hakeem got older. I don't need Earthlings' respect. When it's all said and done, my name will be there and it will be mentioned ... unless you Earthlings try to erase it.

I want to be remembered as part of the group of the greatest players ever.

Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

How many other people get a chance to be remembered forever? And that's what I really want. I want to be remembered forever.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.

Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality.