Be Remembered By Quotes

• I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

  Rosa Parks

  Freedom, People, Would Be

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• Its kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.

  Karen Carpenter

  Nice, People, Trying

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• I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

  Alexander Smith

  Memorial Day, Song, Singing

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.144

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• The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

  George Edward Moore

  Critics, Remembered

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• 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

  Power, Land, Self Improvement

  Address on Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument, www.dartmouth.edu. June 17, 1825.

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• Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Famous Motivational

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• Live today the way you want to be remembered tomorrow.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Generosity, Giving, Making A Difference

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• We do not remember days, we remember moments.

  Cesare Pavese

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.172, Transaction Publishers

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• It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

  Susan Sontag

  Memories, Past, Touching

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• Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power.

  Starhawk

  Eye, Light, Hands

  Starhawk (2012). “Dreaming the Dark”, p.122, Beacon Press

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• But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.

  George Washington

  Thinking, Gentleman, Events

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.121

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• Being a parent has become incredibly important to me. I never knew how much I would be altered by my children. I would like to be remembered by them in much the way I remember my mom: as loving and kind.

  Maya Soetoro-Ng

  Mom, Children, Parent

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• 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

  Character, Thinking, Remembered

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• How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.

  Brian Herbert

  Children, Men, Measure Of A Man

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• 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

  Remember, Forget, Bounds

  Lee Myung-Bak (2012). “The Uncharted Path: The Autobiography of Lee Myung-Bak”, p.171, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Arizonians are deeply proud of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's service to this country. She will always be remembered by Arizonans and all Americans as an extraordinary public servant.

  Jon Kyl

  Country, Justice, Proud

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I'd like to be remembered by two simple words: any two words, as long as they're simple.

  Dan Mathews

  Simple, Two, Long

  "Senior VP of PETA Dan Mathews: On gay rights, empathy for animals, and getting married under the Las Vegas sign". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I want to make my own path and leave behind a good legacy for myself and honestly, I just want to be innovative and always down for other people. That's what I want to be remembered by. I want to inspire.

  ASAP Rocky

  People, Inspire, Legacy

  "Interview: A$AP Rocky On His Debut Album 'Long.live.A$AP' And Upcoming NZ Show". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 12, 2013.

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• What will matter is not your competence, but your character. What will matter is not how many people you knew but how many will feel a lasting loss when you are gone. What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by who and for what?

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Loss, Long

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• Ask yourself, what makes my book so different? So interesting? Don’t write to be a best seller. Write for and from your heart, not your wallet. Write something you want to be remembered by.

  Leon Nacson

  Book, Writing, Heart

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• If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!' your seventy-eight years would be seventy-eight heavy curses; would they not?

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Heart

  Charles Dickens (1904). “A tale of two cities, with intr., notes, and analytical list of characters”

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• It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called off the war in order to hold the Games. I wish we were still as civilized.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, War, Mean

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• If one or two works from a body of work for an exhibition are what you would like to be remembered by, it is a good exhibition.

  John Bellamy Foster

  Two, Exhibitions, Body

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• In my mind my obituary is done.It is done and it is right. It tells the truth and as awful as it can be, the truth is what matters. It is what I should be remembered by, if I'm remembered at all. Remember the truth. that is all that matters

  James Frey

  What Matters, Mind, Done

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.87, Rutgers University Press

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• He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.

  Edmund Burke

  Treasure, Ancestor, Remembered

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