Ancestry Quote by Hosea Ballou

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.

— Charles Caleb Colton

It is good to preserve the name, wealth, and honors you inherit, but it is better in every way if you yourself create a…

— Roman Baldorioty de Castro

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as…

— Plato

“All of our ancestors give us the precious gift of life. Do we use it wisely? Do we use it well? Do we make…

— Laurence Overmire

Posterity will call you the great emancipator, a more enviable title than any crown could be, and greater than any merely mundane treasure.

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth.

— Dag Hammarskjold

To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.

— Thomas Browne

Pride is that which claims to be the author of what is really a gift.

— Timothy Keller

Better not be at all than not be noble.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson