Top 100 History Inspirational Quotes
#1. I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others.
David Benioff
#2. This is a time of change," the Shaman said. "This is a time of enormous power.
P.J. Parker
#3. I am more than good enough
To accomplish everything I can be,
I will wake up today
The history could have been different.
But I am here now.
Priscilla Koranteng
#4. It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#5. Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
Chinua Achebe
#6. Do not fret, my brother, my child. For the buffalo will roam the plains once more.
P.J. Parker
#7. What writes history is the power of ideas. And every moment offers the potential to write something new.
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
#8. When I am old and addled I will make coronets like Cad, that have nothing to do with history, but represent the whimsy and cobwebs in my brain.
Sherri Baldy
#11. This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique ... something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.
Vaclav Havel
#12. I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I'm still here. I have a history of victory.
Steve Maraboli
#13. Hundreds of young barefoot, long-haired, newly converted believers flocked to the church, and they brought their guitars with them.
Robert J. Morgan
#14. It's important to honor your ancestors. Bringing in a piece of furniture or an object you've inherited from a loved one not only honors the person who has passed but also brings the warmth of happy memories into your home.
Jeffrey A. Wands
#15. History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries - are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses.
John Eliot
#16. Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter
Condoleezza Rice
#17. His life changed history. His courage changed lives.
Liz Farrelly
#18. After forty years of working on prevention of a wide range of common and costly psychological and behavioral problems, I am convinced we have the knowledge to achieve a healthier, happier, and more prosperous society than has ever been seen in human history.
Anthony Biglan
#19. Hay que ser duro pero jamas perder la ternura.
[It is necessary to be hard but never to lose the tenderness]
Ernesto Che Guevara
#20. It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.
Jim Hinckley
#21. And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history - money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery - the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
C.S. Lewis
#22. I am thinking of our family's women
as faraway bulbs, their history
with crippling loss, and
how I am pieced together, shell and sand,
from the spine of their collective strength.
Jerrold Yam
#23. Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
Joseph Campbell
#24. History of the world is the biography of the great man. And I said: The great man always act like a thunder. He storms the skies, while others are waiting to be stormed.
Thomas Carlyle
#25. Let me be one of the people who writes their life history, not with ink, with the colors of a caring heart.
Debasish Mridha
#26. Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.
Susan L. Taylor
#27. You can never change the truths of history. You can only learn from them and use them to try and build a better world.
Timothy Pina
#29. What has mattered are the moments of exposure to every life, when habit is no longer enough, and choices have to be made. That's when everyone becomes a great man, for a moment; and the choices made in those moments, which come all too frequently, then combine to make history.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#30. It is a hard lesson to learn and a lesson we most of us need to learn at some point: We cannot assume to know a person's history from their face.
Na'ama Yehuda
#33. Personally, I can't see the appeal in trekking down to D.C. for a networking extravaganza, even if it is built around a special moment in American history. While I find the election of Barack Obama inspirational, I don't have a desire to memorialize it with overly effusive celebration.
Jamie Johnson
#34. [When it comes to writing]The first steps that are the hardest. Mine were accidental in a away. I wrote what I wanted on a blog & the rest is history.
A.J. Walters
#36. Our faith is watered and we flourish when we reach out to others in love. We think good times and comfort will make us happy. But history shows that the people who are filled with the most joy and contentment are those who reach out to others-despite tough times
Laurie Ostby Kehler
#37. The brave aren't called the brave because they weren't scared, Elena, neither the courageous, nor the heroes. All of those people written in history have one thing in common: fear, and plenty of it, but that is when true courage shows itself
Adrienne Woods
#38. Never lend if you need repayment; never give where you want a return.
Lindsey Davis
#39. The mind is a powerful thing. It can take you through walls.
Denis Avey
#40. Sometimes you don't choose greatness, it chooses you. And when it does, it requires a certain level of understandin', courage and a degree of blind hope.
Jay Grewal
#41. I refuse to believe the people of Texas and all Americans in the world have forgotten us.
P.J. Parker
#42. History is change happening one person at a time.
Matt Damon
#43. Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that.
Paulo Coelho
#44. There are two kind of people in the world those who wish to be remembered, and those who are always remembered.
Kartik Mehta
#45. Once the lotus of your inner divinity gets full-blown and you reach the mental state where all the religious giants of human history experienced the all-encompassing sense of godliness, the exuberance of the human mind turns infinite.
Abhijit Naskar
#47. No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.
Paulo Coelho
#48. History is a set of repeating circles, like the tide. The wind does blow through the ruins of tomorrow. But it is more a question of two steps forward, one step back. Humans and dragons make the same mistakes, again and again, but things do get better over time
Cressida Cowell
#49. Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.
Napoleon Hill
#50. If the stones that we walked on could talk, they would surely tell our story." - Magnetic Reverie
Nico J. Genes
#51. No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?
Steve Maraboli
#52. Winner goes with the flow, History Maker against the flow
Kjiva
#53. Don't forget your history nor your destiny
Bob Marley
#54. We live and die by our stories if we don't rewrite our own history. The past is merely what we make of it, the future ours to create. Rewrite revise, erase.
Sheryl Mallory-Johnson
#55. For whom do you cry, my son?" the Great Spirit asked.
"I do not know."
"Yes, you do.
P.J. Parker
#56. It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.
Abraham Lincoln
#57. Auschwitz was a dark epiphany, providing us with a terrible vision of what life is like when all sense of the sacred is lost and the human being
whoever he or she may be
is no longer revered as an inviolable mystery.
Karen Armstrong
#58. I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum
#59. You don't fully appreciate what you've got until something threatens to take it away.
Melody Carlson
#60. Each Inspirational Messenger who was and has been acknowledged in the history books was done so because of the way they chose to live. Their life had a core message that was central to their years, whether they exemplified and expressed whenever they took a step in the world.
Emily Gowor
#61. History was once the future, the future will create history.
Daniel J. Hill
#64. Many people read History books but it takes just a few people to LEAD the cause that will shape the course of HISTORY.
Fela Durotoye
#65. Don't use your past history as an excuse to be miserable. Use your past as a testament to show the world just how far you have come.
Miya Yamanouchi
#67. While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.
Mattie J.T. Stepanek
#68. To die,
so young to die.
No, no, not I,
I love the warm sunny skies,
light, song, shining eyes,
I want no war, no battle cry,
No, no, not I.
Hannah Senesh
#69. The venerable teachers, philosophers & spiritual practitioners throughout history have concluded that the greatest happiness we can experience comes from the development of an open, loving heart.
Allan Lokos
#70. Those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it. You have to expose who you are so that you can determine what you need to become.
Cynthia A. Patterson
#71. Conscious access to memory is a unique trait of living things, but memory itself is not. It's encoded in the minute vibrations between elementary particles. Our entire universe is built of information given shape. Part of that is its history. Its memory.
M.R. Graham
#72. History is not necessarily what happened but what is recorded.
Debbie Terranova
#73. After his failed political career, Lincoln often pondered the question of the purpose of the meaning of life. In 1850 [ten years before he was elected President], Lincoln told Herdon [his law partner] How hard, oh how hard it is to die and leave one's country no better than if one had never lived.
Ronald C. White Jr.
#74. Do you understand the meaning of the soil beneath your feet?
P.J. Parker
#75. If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.
Christopher McDougall
#76. Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.
Steve Maraboli
#77. Every day is precious. You will never live THIS day again. It is ONE event in human history. Why not make it count? Time is a nonrenewable resource.
Kristen Lamb
#79. The early morning sunshine shot up the ice-covered valley. It glinted off the backs of slumbering mastodon, reflected between the antlers of caribou.
P.J. Parker
#80. How beautiful would history have been if it could be written beforehand and then acted out like drama!
Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh
#82. The abscess is a distant memory. The pain is gone. This dinner with her hosts and her health-care team, this week of seeing another country and another culture, this time of being in demand, this moment is reality. I am a lucky girl, (Judy) thinks.
Shireen Jeejeebhoy
#85. In fact, no immigrant in American history has ever made a larger contribution than Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow
#86. A man who tosses worms in the river isn't 't necessarily a friend of the fish. All the fish who take him for a friend, who think the worm's got no hook in it, usually end up in the frying pan.
Malcolm X
#87. The future is malleable, and to see it, you just have to listen to history and have a grand enough vision. - Salome Gluecksohn Waelsch - Developmental Genetics
Rachel Swaby
#88. Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#89. You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do.
John Edward Williams
#90. A fortress built long ago,
Walls made timeless by historic glory.
The small girl in the boat slows,
To listen to its story.
Rachel Lewis
#91. All the past is a lie. All history, all memories, all of it, are just illusions. None of it is who your are. The very next thing you do....that is who you are.
Don Elwell
#92. West Point - The Key to the Continent and Independence.
P.J. Parker
#93. Those unuttered words of your smile can rewrite the history of this wonderful world.
Debasish Mridha
#94. History doesn't remember gardens.
...
You forgot the wise administrators, those who kept the peace, those who brought prosperity. You needn't feel embarrassed, though. So did history.
Andrew Ashling
#95. When undesirable and ugly addendum enters a man's life history, it become acceptable as part of the process of growing up.
Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh
#96. Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.
Muhammad Ali
#97. In my view, the gospels are true, not historically, but theologically, or, as I would argue, prophetically! What we have is, the Messiah's history written in advance in story form.
Eli Of Kittim
#98. Ah, yes, choice. I chose to let my ghosts stay in past. Past is history you know. Living is now. I sat. I breathed. I let past go. I let future go. I am. That is all.
Natalie Wright
#99. The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.
Brian Tracy
#100. There is a camaraderie that grows up among those who work with old books and old papers, largely, I suspect, because we understand that we are at odds with the rest of the world: we are travelling backwards, while all those around us are still moving forward.
Peter Ackroyd
