Top 100 Be Remembered Quotes
#1. To be remembered in the heart of a loved one is to live forever
Marcus Sedgwick
#3. History has to judge every man who served. I don't know how they're going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won't lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried.
Barry Goldwater
#4. Some of your childhood traumas may be remembered with incredible clarity, while others are so frightening or incomprehensible that your conscious mind buries the memory in your unconscious.
Renee Fredrickson
#5. Faith is an action. He (one criminal on the cross) puts himself one step lower than where he was, sharing Jesus' place of poverty, insecurity, and the focus of rage. Remember me. And he will be remembered, because of his association with the Crucified One.
Megan McKenna
#6. I love how pop culture shapes a generation. The trends, fashion and events all play a key part in how we live our present lives, and will mark how we will be remembered in the future.
Connor Franta
#7. I did not want to be forgotten. More than that, I wanted, desperately - I fell to my knees and began to tear out the weeds, the vines, by their very roots - to be remembered.
Melanie Benjamin
#8. The only instance of praying to saints, mentioned in the Bible, is that of the rich man in torment calling upon Abraham; and let it be remembered, that it was practised only by a lost soul and without success.
Richard Cecil
#9. After my death, I want to be remembered as Africa's greatest industrialist.
Aliko Dangote
#10. I want to be remembered as a person who kept it real, who did what he wanted to do, but never did nothing stupid and never tried to offend nobody else. I'm always being myself.
Edgerrin James
#11. I hope to be remembered as an author who defined and exemplified excellence in crafting the modern love story.
Nicholas Sparks
#12. First we only want to be seen, but once we're seen, that's not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.
Emily St. John Mandel
#13. Elegance is not to be noticed, but to be remembered.
Giorgio Armani
#14. Women were glad when he came into their lives. It was not boasting. Women smiled for him; even when he left them, they smiled as if they would welcome him back. That was all he ever really wanted from women; a smile, a dance, a kiss, and to be remembered foundly.
Robert Jordan
#15. When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.
Eddy Arnold
#16. I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
Gale Sayers
#17. In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.
James S. Coleman
#19. If therefore you shall be remembered for what you did with what you had more than what you had, use what you have to do something distinctive now and leave a notable footprint before you go
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#20. I don't want to be known for winning the game, I want to be remembered for how I played it." Abbie St. Claire
Abbie St. Claire
#22. If I wanted to make a quick buck, there's far easier ways of doing it. What I want is to provoke people. If you want a hit song, all you need to do is rewrite an old song. It might have been proven to work, but you won't be remembered the same way.
Avicii
#23. Rightly it is said of utter, utter misery, that it 'cannot be remembered'; itself, being a rememberable thing, is swallowed up in its own chaos.
Thomas De Quincey
#24. I'd like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That's how I'd like to be remembered.
Shirley Chisholm
#25. I want it to be remembered that Ozzy was the first celebrity who was brave enough to open up his private life to the public. He was the first.
Sharon Osbourne
#26. I'd like to be remembered as the sower of seeds. That's the greatest parable in the bible as far as I'm concerned. Some seeds fall in the pathway, get stomped on and don't grow. Some fall on the stones and don't even sprout, but others fall on the ground and multiply a thousand fold.
Pete Seeger
#27. I don't want to be remembered as a good goalkeeper. I want to be remembered as a great person
Iker Casillas
#28. Someday I'll be remembered for The phone calls I never made Letters I never mailed And the stories I never finished telling anyone.
Yoko Ono
#29. Civilizations rose and fell; what caused them to be remembered was not their contribution to knowledge or culture, not even the size of their empires, but rather how much force they extorted upon the landscape.
Max Barry
#30. Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.
Maureen Forrester
#31. My fear is that he'll forget me," she bemoaned with crystalline sadness. I took her hand, limp with loss and held it. "I'd rather not be remembered by any man as it saves me the embarrassment.
Donna Lynn Hope
#32. For millions, Roger Ebert will be remembered as a writer and television personality who brought a sense of passion and excellence to his craft. For me, he is a man who fused joy and courage as few others ever have. My life was enriched by having such a friend; it is poorer for losing such a friend.
Jeff Greenfield
#33. When I die, I want to be remembered for what I did, not what I could've done
Jess Lowe
#35. It should also be remembered that art created to change minds often actually does more to bolster the spirit of those already in agreement than it does to convert opponents.
Steve Turner
#36. My legacy doesn't matter. It isn't important that I be remembered. It's important that when I stand before the Lord, he says, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.' I want to finish strong.
James Dobson
#37. But he knew he would always remember and be remembered, for this moment, and for others like it, raw and honest.
Fonda Lee
#38. A woman should always dress to be remembered, not simply to be noticed.
Giorgio Armani
#39. It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting a living is not so, then living is not.
Henry David Thoreau
#40. There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion 'I am God' cannot be made with regard to the sense-world.
Swami Vivekananda
#41. Imagine yourself at your funeral. Ask yourself what you want your family and friends to say about you. How will you be remembered and what impact will you have had on other people's lives? How did you make the world a better place?
Robert Cheeke
#42. When all is said and done, what must be remembered is a newspaper is a business. It used to be a fabulous business that made extraordinary margins. It's now a very good business with appropriate margins.
Sam Zell
#43. I want to be remembered as a championship football player.
Brian Urlacher
#44. In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.
George Pierce Baker
#45. I would like to be remembered as a - somebody who could rock your soul or make your cry with a song. And somebody who's kind, who loved to laugh, and loved his God.
Gregg Allman
#46. Prehistory of mankind is way too horrible to be remembered.
But if we choose to ignore it, then we'll be doomed to repeat it.
Toba Beta
#47. I'm mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. Now, I'll have to throw him another.
Bill Lee
#48. And it ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#49. My success will be remembered by others. I don't have to constantly remind myself. However, I must always remember my failure, for if I forget them, I am bound to myself.
Lee Myung-bak
#50. If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor.
Francis Ford Coppola
#51. I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.
Luther Vandross
#52. You have an advantage if you win. I always think it's best to be remembered as a winner rather than as the runner-up. It's definitely more fun getting the gold than it is the silver.
Simon Cowell
#53. The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered.
Ulysses S. Grant
#54. I think I might drum up the hardest end-of-term exams in the history of the world. I want to be remembered for something." "George, you'll be remembered. Who could forget you?" "Hopefully not you!" He kissed her forehead.
Robyn Carr
#55. B.B. King will be remembered for his impressive skills on the guitar, that King defined the blue genre.
Chris Matthews
#56. I'd like my reputation to stay as it is and to be remembered for a wonderful decade.
Pat Riley
#57. At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.
Herbert Croly
#58. It takes a Mother's Love to make a house a home, a place to be remembered, no matter where we roam.
Helen Steiner Rice
#59. Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
Alan Bennett
#60. I want to be remembered as a loving, understanding father.
Robert Gossett
#61. At last, you will not be remembered for roaming the earth as a non-entity, but by every word, and every miracle, and every love, and every seed that ever came from the innermost part of your heart.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#62. I want you to live as you would be remembered if you would die tomorrow,
P.C. Cast
#63. In a country where people are afraid of criticizing the government, many things must be going horrible! In such countries people must know that a society of cowards will always be remembered as a society of honourless people!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#64. Recently I gave a lecture and a gentleman came to me and asked how I'd like to be remembered, i'd never been asked that before, so I thought for a few seconds. And I said I want to be remembered that I had a great love for my fellow man.
Billy Casper
#65. The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.
Confucius
#66. I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.
Malala Yousafzai
#67. I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.
Arthur C. Clarke
#68. I want to be remembered as a nice person who didn't hurt people - except my ex-husbands, maybe.
Eugenie Clark
#69. Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
W. Somerset Maugham
#70. I suppose I would like to be remembered as one of the funniest men that people have seen on television.
Ronnie Barker
#71. I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
Salma Hayek
#72. Just being alive - even if you're only on the planet for a few years - is struggle enough. You've earned the right to be remembered.
Paul Acampora
#73. Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know- they'd trade it all to know they've been seen, and acknowledged, that they might even be remembered. We all know the world is too big for us to be significant. So all we have is the hope of being seen, or heard, even for a moment.
Dave Eggers
#74. If somebody asks me whether I'd rather sink the winning putt in the Ryder Cup or win a major, it's the major every day. World championship or Ryder Cup? Win a world championship. At the end of the day you're going to be remembered for what you achieve in an individual sport.
Rory McIlroy
#75. It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts ... it is to teach them to think.
Robert M. Hutchins
#76. Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
#77. It is more pleasant to remember others than to be remembered.
Henry J. Heinz
#78. Marina wouldn't want to be remembered because she dead. She would want to be remembered because she's good.
Anne Fadiman
#79. I wanted to make more than just money. I wanted to make a difference and be remembered.
Penelope Douglas
#80. I would love to be remembered as one of the greatest Lears or Hamlets.
Roger Moore
#81. If there is anything I would like to be remembered for it is that
I helped people understand that leadership is helping other people grow and succeed.
To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It's about them
Jack Welch
#82. We are born, we are shadows, we cast shadows of own, and then we are gone. All anyone can hope for is to be remembered two shadows deep.
Hugh Howey
#83. People say, "How would you like to be remembered?" I don't want to be remembered. Gimme a break. What I want is to hear what's great about me now. Let me hear it! In the box you don't hear these eulogies.
Jerry Lewis
#84. Somewhere along the line I'll be recognized as one of the top players in the Nicklaus era. That's all I want to be remembered for.
Lee Trevino
#85. When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.
Michelle Kwan
#86. Solyndra will be remembered in the history books as a sad hallmark of a newly installed administration that felt it was above the rules, lusting for positive headlines rather than focused on delivering results.
Fred Upton
#87. I'll tell you how I'd like to be remembered: As a black man who won the heavyweight title - Who has humorous and who never looked down on those who looked up to him - A man who stood for freedom, justice and equality - And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was.
Muhammad Ali
#88. To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men have gone without a trace?
W.G. Sebald
#89. The days she was finally brought out of the house would later be remembered as a day when shadows seemed blacker, as if something more lingered in those darkened spaces.
Leslye Walton
#90. I want to be remembered for Swiss Family Robinson and Old Yeller. I think Swiss is probably my favorite film.
Tommy Kirk
#91. I think my career will be remembered for what it was and what it is, and I don't need more than that.
Jim Abbott
#92. It's funny what people will do to be remembered.
John Green
#93. It's very flattering to be remembered as a Bond girl with brains and not just for looking good in a bikini. I was a fan of Sophie Marceau in 'The World Is Not Enough.' I think her performance was very underrated.
Eva Green
#94. He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.
Sarah J. Maas
#95. For something to occur, something needed to be lived in, approached, repelled by, consumed. The present, to exist, must be remembered, despised, and feared.
Philip Schultz
#96. Many people spend their lives trying to create a lasting legacy on earth. They want to be remembered when they're gone. Yet, what ultimately matters most will not be what others say about your life but what God says.
Rick Warren
#97. This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.
William Mountford
#98. When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
Samuel Johnson
#99. Either you can have life or you can be remembered in history
Osho
#100. I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried - who tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being. Someone who isn't complacent, who doesn't cop out.
Paul Newman