Death Quotes

I want to leave a legacy.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

Why are we,

as a nation so obsessed

with foreign things?

Is it a legacy of

our colonial years?

We want foreign television sets.

We want foreign shirts.

We want foreign technology.

Why this obsession with

everything imported?

Patience is a key element of success.

Much success can be attributed to inactivity.

Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The world won’t care about your self esteem.

The world will expect you to accomplish

something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

There are only two

lasting bequests we can

hope to give our children

One of these is roots,

the other, wings.

Music is a reflection of the struggles and triumphs of life.

Show class,

have pride,

and display character.

Always forgive your enemies;

nothing annoys them so much.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us

dreamers and indolent...

It is good to begin life poor;

it is good to begin life rich

these are wholesome;

but to begin it prospectively rich!

The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

The past is no guide to the future,

and the future will be what we make it.

Being authentic is more important than being popular.

Peace comes from within.

Do not seek it without.

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very';

your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

I believe that a simple

and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone,

best both for the body and the mind.

Vulnerability is strength,

not weakness.

The main problem with writing in verse is,

if your fourth line doesn't come out right,

you've got to throw four lines away and figure,

out a whole new way to attack the problem,

So the mortality rate is terrific.