Posterity Quotes
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Posterity Quotes & Sayings
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Posterity will say as usual: In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past.
— Anton Chekhov
May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we had.
— Mira Grant
The positioning of the mind is what makes the difference between the failures and the successes.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Kind and lovely thought originate from God while evil and revengeful thoughts are initiated by the devil.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Posterity will call you the great emancipator, a more enviable title than any crown could be, and greater than any merely mundane treasure.
— Giuseppe Garibaldi
They tore Joseph coat of many colors as evidence of his death and dreams but God brought together his life for his People, to prepare them posterity
— Ikechukwu Joseph
The eyes of all America are upon us, as we play our part posterity will bless or curse us.
— Henry Knox
Wrong thinking will take your life the wrong way, channeling your thoughts to the right direction will cause you to soar in life.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
You can cream your dream by enriching your thought with clean and desirable things.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Of all the rewards of virtue, ... the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Posterity is always just.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I'm interested in designing for posterity.
— Alexander McQueen
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
We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.
— Quintus Curtius Rufus
Learn to live from inside to outside, bring out those magnificent estates within you and live in them.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
You are the guardian and custodian of your heart, remember this always!
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
How far you go in life and in your career is dependent on how far you can think good thoughts!
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
I've never had any real concern about posterity. I hope some people will be sorry when I'm not here, but I'm not playing for that.
— Elvis Costello
You cannot be different from your thought!
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
George Washington famously warned against ... 'ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear
— George Washington
It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires.
— Jefferson Davis
Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.
— Louis Pasteur
Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
— John Maynard Keynes
Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
— Robert Menzies
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
— Friedrich Schiller
Your thought is so important because it has the ability to make or mar you. Your thought will either move you forward or set you backwards.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.
— Len Wein
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
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
— Joseph Addison
What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Think on blessings and not curses, beauty not ugliness, health not sickness. Meditate on wealth not poverty, success not failure, grace not disgrace!
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Your future will definitely head to the same direction with your thoughts; this is why planning your thought is so important.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
You create and plan your thought by seeing, reading and hearing the right things.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.
— Augustus John
Choose your thoughts, carve them in your mind and fix your gaze on them always.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.
— Benjamin Franklin
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.
— Isaac D'Israeli
The desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them upon contemporaries.
— Suzanne La Follette
We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.
— Walter Cronkite
Posteritythe forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism
grows ever harder to conceive. — Mason Cooley
Posterity will pay everyone their due.
— Tacitus
Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.
— Seneca The Younger
Most often, adorned winners haven't worked for posterity but for the laurel wreaths and real winners don't care about adorned victories.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Who does not wish to have noble ancestors?Who does not wish to have noble descendants?
Even fools boast that their ancestors were sages. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
— Irwin Shaw
Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity.
— Joyce Carol Oates
God and posterity will show me more favour
— Lady Jane Grey
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
— James Joyce
The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.
— W.S. Gilbert
We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.
— Patrick Henry
Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!
— Samuel Adams
He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.
— Edmund Burke
Structure your thought pattern to what you want to achieve and who you want to become.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible ... then may the Devil take you!
— Albert Einstein
It is our sacred duty to transmit unimpaired to our posterity the blessings of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the founders of the Republic.
— Andrew Johnson
Titles do not count with posterity.
— Thomas Paine
I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description
— James Joyce
I believe the man who will go down in posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of everyday life around him.
— Childe Hassam
The perfect critic is one ... that sees with the eyes of posterity.
— Austin O'Malley
The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his ownthat is, for his age
so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world they overthrew.
— Christopher Caldwell
How could he deny the jewels of posterity within his loins?
— Frank Herbert
A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.
— Henry David Thoreau
Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point.
— Robert Aris Willmott
Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.
— William Winwood Reade
Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.
— Herman Melville
The function of posterity is to look after itself.
— Dylan Thomas
People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
— Edmund Burke
You are the posterity of your family. You are either continuing the progression or regression of your ancestors.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.
— Ellen G. White
When your thought is right, your imaginations will be colourful; you will then dream and not have nightmares!
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.
— Pierre-Jean De Beranger
The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.
— Gustave Flaubert
Always set your mind to think thoughts of victory even before the battle begins, this way you will experience limitless possibilities.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.
— Horace Walpole
Posterity will jump to conclusions: that is its nature.
— Julian Barnes