Top 100 To Be Remembered Quotes
#1. If I am to be remembered, I hope it will not be primarily for my specialized scientific work, but as a generalist; one to whom, enlarging Terence's words, nothing human and nothing in external nature was alien.
Julian Huxley
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.
Michelle Kwan
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. I would love to be remembered as one of the greatest Lears or Hamlets.
Roger Moore
#10. I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.
Mattie Stepanek
#11. You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.
Rick Warren
#12. I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller,
the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered-
as a storyteller. A good storyteller.
Louis L'Amour
#13. Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.
David Parnas
#14. I'd say that I'm super proud of only four or five things I've done, but mostly I'd like to be remembered as a really good actor who people enjoyed watching.
Gil Bellows
#15. But I would say basically, I would just like to be remembered for what I did on the field.
Steve Carlton
#16. I'd love to have a lasting impact as far as growing the game. It would be cool to be remembered as a major champion. I'd like to be remembered as a great golfer but also a great person, as far as growing the game and charity work. The whole well-rounded athlete.
Rickie Fowler
#17. Keeping histories is as much about knowing what needs forgetting as what ought to be remembered.
Leah Bobet
#18. My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.
Chuck Palahniuk
#19. I don't want to be remembered as a beaten champion.
Rocky Marciano
#20. I think that the major message of my life and what I hope to be remembered for is someone who managed to change the social sexual values of his time absolutely.
Hugh Hefner
#21. I just want to be remembered as a person who loved God, who served others more than he served himself, who was trying to grow in maturity and stability.
Mike Yaconelli
#22. The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.
Ken Venturi
#23. I would like to be remembered, well ... the Mexicans have a phrase, "Feo fuerte y formal". Which means he was ugly, strong and had dignity.
John Wayne
#24. I want to be remembered for my football and the pleasure I gave people.
George Best
#26. I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and my brother Jamie.
Patsy Kensit
#27. She knew without a doubt what he had said was true. They were created for each other. Destined for this time of reconciliation. For Keirah, it was a moment, no, it was the moment of a lifetime, and it would forever be engraved on her heart and etched in her soul to be remembered long after forever.
Madison Thorne Grey
#28. I want to be remembered for having a great love for my fellow man. Because, you know, I do.
Billy Casper
#29. Don't get me wrong, it's a good thing to be remembered. But everyday their memories get fewer, less intense. Certain aspects of the memory will become dishevelled, twisted into a form unrecognisable. Until finally the person still at the centre of your world moves on and all you can do is watch
Stacey Field
#30. The thing I would like most to leave behind is to be remembered for trying hard.
Pete Rose
#31. When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
Freddie Mercury
#32. Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past becomes a legend to be remembered with laughter?
May Sarton
#33. I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of literature.
Jonathan Kozol
#34. To be remembered in the heart of a loved one is to live forever
Marcus Sedgwick
#35. It is more pleasant to remember others than to be remembered.
Henry J. Heinz
#36. Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. I suppose I would like to be remembered as one of the funniest men that people have seen on television.
Ronnie Barker
#41. 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
#42. I want to be remembered as a nice person who didn't hurt people - except my ex-husbands, maybe.
Eugenie Clark
#43. I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.
Arthur C. Clarke
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. I want to be remembered as a loving, understanding father.
Robert Gossett
#47. 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
#48. I'd like my reputation to stay as it is and to be remembered for a wonderful decade.
Pat Riley
#49. 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
#50. 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
#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. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. I want to be remembered as a championship football player.
Brian Urlacher
#57. There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion 'I am God' cannot be made with regard to the sense-world.
Swami Vivekananda
#58. 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
#59. A woman should always dress to be remembered, not simply to be noticed.
Giorgio Armani
#61. When I die, I want to be remembered for what I did, not what I could've done
Jess Lowe
#62. 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
#63. I don't want to be remembered as a good goalkeeper. I want to be remembered as a great person
Iker Casillas
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. I'd like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That's how I'd like to be remembered.
Shirley Chisholm
#68. 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
#70. In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.
James S. Coleman
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. Elegance is not to be noticed, but to be remembered.
Giorgio Armani
#75. 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
#76. I hope to be remembered as an author who defined and exemplified excellence in crafting the modern love story.
Nicholas Sparks
#77. 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
#78. After my death, I want to be remembered as Africa's greatest industrialist.
Aliko Dangote
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. There are photographs of people you don't recognize and photographs of you in ways you don't wish to be remembered, but they each contain elements of places or times you do not wish to forget.
Diane Meier
#82. I want to be remembered as somebody working hard, walking straight in life, most of the time, and just being a down-to-earth person, being loyal and being indestructible.
Jens Voigt
#83. I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.
David Eagleman
#84. I would like to be remembered as a good father. A good husband. A good brother. A good friend. A good man. But that is simply not going to happen. Like it or not, I have reached the point of infamy when I am going to be remembered simply as 'Ronnie Biggs', whatever or whoever he is in your mind.
Ronald Biggs
#85. The world itself has become a smaller place. If you want to be remembered and create a legacy, you have to reach out to people. They want to know you. I can just say where I'm going, and Twitter will get it, and if there's a controversy, I can give my opinion. It's easier to communicate.
Madhuri Dixit
#86. Some people write to make something ugly beautiful, some write to leave a part of themselves to be remembered, some write to give words soul and meaning, and some write to exist in non-existence.
Sam Madison
#87. Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.
Eminem
#88. I hope to be remembered as someone who promoted positive change in Mexican business and society - even if this is not currently understood.
Ricardo Salinas Pliego
#89. I don't want to be remembered as 'the son of Bruce Lee'.
Brandon Lee
#90. -"What do you think people want, if it's not greatness and to be remembered for all time?"
-"Mostly? I believe people want to eat a good lunch, and then take a good piss.
Barbara Kingsolver
#91. I want to be remembered going off the front, not the other way. After winning my seventh king-of-the-mountains title and winning a stage on Bastille Day, I asked myself, 'What more can I do in cycling?' I want to go out at the top.
Richard Virenque
#92. There is nothing like it for morale to be reminded that the years are passing - ever more quickly - and that bits are dropping off the ancient frame. But it is nice to be remembered at all.
Prince Philip
#93. I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.
Rupert Murdoch
#94. I don't expect to live forever, nor do I repine over that, but I am weak enough to want to be remembered forever. - Yet how few of those who have lived, even of those who have accomplished far more than I have, linger on in world memory for even a single century after death
Isaac Asimov
#95. knowing how they want to be remembered helps them decide how to live today, and leaving a legacy will give them a purpose that will unleash their passion.
Jon Gordon
#96. I don't want to be remembered. As long as my kids remember me, I'd rather be forgotten by everybody else.
Mike Tyson
#97. I'm merely dying to be remembered for simply writing about my living memories
Michael Biondi
#98. How would I like to be remembered? As a person who came and brought light to the world, some escapism. Also as the voice for the voiceless children, because I love them.
Michael Jackson
#100. I'd like to be remembered for being a good-hearted soul that left this planet better than I found it.
Alison Eastwood
