The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.
The only greatness for man is immortality.
If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.
Immortality is a by-product of good work.
When I got 'forever' tattooed on my throat, it meant that my legacy was going to live forever. So anything that I create, I do it because I believe it will live on, forever.
So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.
I'm trying to build something that lasts forever. If it's tied to my legacy as an athlete, then when I'm gone, it will have no momentum or can't keep selling.
That's why I named my album 'Finding Forever,' because that's what I was thinking about: What did I want to contribute to this world that would live beyond my physical existence?
If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed.
What impact are you making, not only today, but for eternity? What impact are you making to leave a legacy?
The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
Words have a longevity that I do not have.
Thackeray is an institution that cannot become irrelevant because of one election.
If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.
I'm not a person who wants to die with my shoes on. I do not think I can be immortal. Maybe my deeds will be immortal. Not me.
If you want to be immortal, do something useful in your lifetime.
Prince had always told us he just wanted to get through this thing called life. But now that his own physical life has ended, his artistic life will continue.
I hope I will have achieved something lasting.
There is a certain immortality in the change that another person effects on another person.
Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!
History hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.
Once someone watches me compete, I'm part of them forever.
