Lasting Impact Quotes

Achilles absent was Achilles still!

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

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.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, "I will always be here."

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

You never get away from that thing in your hometown that it has over you. You don't outgrow where you come from.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay attention, and to acknowledge that human relations and human emotions are of inexhaustible interest wherever they occur.

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us!

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

I'm not begging to be remembered or whatever. I did my thing, and if you remember, that's even better. But if you don't, there's so many other things going on.

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

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears

When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.