History Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Not a single person whose name is worth remembering lived a life of ease.

— Ryan Allis

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

— Oscar Wilde

My surname certainly suggests a man whose destiny has always been injury.

— John Hurt

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.

— Marshall McLuhan

You can't recall someone whose name has worn away.

— Sebastian Faulks

It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.

— Henry David Thoreau

A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.

— Josiah Johnson Hawes

Man is remembered by his deeds.

— Knute Nelson

Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in…

— Thomas Browne

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

— Henry Drummond

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

— Edmund Burke