Posterity Quotes

Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

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

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

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.

If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.

The Democratic Party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.

And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families become rich; and of such are compounded Cities, Countries, Nations, etc.

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.

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

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.

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

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

I'm interested in designing for posterity.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.