History's Most Inspirational Quotes

#1. Seek to know the history of the sacred souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. Old things climb out through my mouth and set themselves free in the air. On the high moor there are patterns and in my small mind there are patterns. [...] All the centuries drop away, and I am in the presence of something that does not know time.

Paul Kingsnorth

#3. 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

#4. Everyday create your history, every path you take you're leaving your legacy.

Michael Jackson

#5. That's the thing about history: YOU make it.

John Green

#6. Without women, humanity will be history.

Debasish Mridha

#7. 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

#8. I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man's diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books ... If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.

Jorge Luis Borges

#9. History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

B.C. Forbes

#10. If you haven't met Kenny (Young) you have not seen how the spirit of Boston can be embodied by one single man.

David McCullough

#11. Excellence is not a history, but a habit.

Debasish Mridha

#12. People come and people go, but it's rare that one makes enough of an impact in life, that others will read as history.

Auliq Ice

#13. Experience, derived from scientific investigation, led to all the scientific literature in history. Likewise, experience, derived from religious transcendence, led to all the religious scriptures in history. It's never the other way around.

Abhijit Naskar

#14. By philosophy, history, economics and science, all knowledge and wisdom, humanity may eventually arrive at the awareness of its own oneness.... Sudipta Das

Sudipta Das

#15. The history of "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is one of idealism, struggle, despair, passion, success, failure, and enormously long lunch-breaks.

Douglas Adams

#16. No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?

Steve Maraboli

#17. The wisdom of our ancestors is immortal.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. History remembers most what you did last.

Christopher Plummer

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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.

#24. There were no stars, only the darkness and an arctic chill that had intensified since the first thin, blood-red stripes of sunrise shimmered on the ocean's horizon.

P.J. Parker

#25. If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

Christopher McDougall

#26. Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.

Erwin Raphael McManus

#27. History affects our future but it doesn't determine it.

Todd Stocker

#28. [Pleasure is what suggested] which behaviors, emotions, social patterns and patterns of taste served us well during our evolutionary history. They were experienced as pleasures and encoded into our formative genetic codes ... deep in the past, from about 100,000 years ago and beyond.

Lionel Tiger

#29. Our personal history does not inhibit our present or our future. Don't let anyone (including yourself) tell you you can't do something. Find your passion and take action everyday to work towards achieving your life purpose.

Miya Yamanouchi

#30. As a child, I thought that war and peace were opposites. Yet I lived in peace when Vietnam was in flames and I didn't experience war until Vietnam had laid down its weapons. I believe that war and peace are actually friends, who mock us.

Kim Thuy

#31. Do you understand the meaning of the soil beneath your feet?

P.J. Parker

#32. Your family's history does not have to be your future legacy!

Jayce O'Neal

#33. Rainbow Cloud strode forward like a hunting cat with the same strength of height and broad shoulders, the same rolling gait as First Light's father. They were indeed the same man, split in two at birth, so the family might be rewarded by twice the skill in hunting each brother possessed.

P.J. Parker

#34. 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

#35. History is not necessarily what happened but what is recorded.

Debbie Terranova

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. The history of a place fascinates me through the echoes and remains you learn alot

D.B. Shultz

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. The difference in the past and history is that the past is set in stone history is just an account from the guy with the strongest axe

Andy Andrews

#42. The other Clans will soon arrive. The greatest times of our family are before us. And so are the darkest.

P.J. Parker

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

Theodore Roosevelt

#44. We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.

Thomas Jefferson