#posterity

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#face #fall #him #his #impossible

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#flattery #more #much #nothing #posterity

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#posterity #trustees #youth

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#gives #half #life #man #posterity

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man. ↗

— Sam Houston

#give #honest #honest man #i #if i could

Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#bear #best #borrowed #come #demand

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived. ↗

— E. Joseph Cossman

#least #let us #live #lived #long

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#discovery #explained #hope #i #i hope that

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#consciences #doing #even #i #i think

I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#back #find #i #interviews #just