Top 100 Make History Quotes
#1. It is not the kings and generals that make history, but the masses of the people.
Nelson Mandela
#2. When 99% of people doubt your idea, you're either gravely wrong or about to make history.
Scott Belsky
#3. One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.
Jeremy Rifkin
#5. Guy Kawasaki, "The essence of evangelism is to passionately show people how you can make history together. Evangelism
Carmine Gallo
#6. It takes only a few seconds to make history new again.
Amity Shlaes
#7. Cristiano reminds me of German tennis player Michael Stich. He was destined to make history, but then Boris Becker showed up. Cristiano is so fast, so strong, so incredible, but he has one problem: Leo Messi.
Jurgen Klopp
#8. Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture.
George Friedman
#9. If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
Albert Camus
#10. This simple inability to remember not the true sequence of events but a reconstructed one will make history appear in hindsight to be far more explainable than it actually was - or is.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#11. I am excited to bring my deep knowledge, passion and expertise of soccer in this country to The New York Cosmos. They truly represent where this sport is headed on a national and international level, and I want to make history with them.
Cobi Jones
#12. Live in the moment. Moments make history.
Nikki Sixx
#13. I am going in there to win this fight. I don't think people are taking me seriously. I'm gonna surprise a lot of people. This guy helped two people make history.
Bernard Hopkins
#14. The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West.
Pankaj Mishra
#16. We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.
John McCain
#18. You have to be a little bad to make history.
Brent Weeks
#19. Presidents make history. I'm just a tool of history.
Chris Weitz
#20. There are those who write history. There are those who make history. There are those who experience history.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#21. And in the act of making things, just by living their daily lives, they also make history.
Knitting is clothing made in spare moments, or round the fire, whenever women gathered together ... It's something to celebrate-clothes made in love and service, something women have always done.
Anne Bartlett
#22. Hip to the fact that well-behaved women rarely make history, Diane [Wilson] has already inspired a new movement of totally uncontrollable, irresistible and unreasonable women!
Medea Benjamin
#23. What's interesting is that when you get into the post-war period, many of the narratives in books and movies conclude that if you killed Hitler, you're actually going to make history worse.
Gavriel David Rosenfeld
#24. Well behaved women do not make history.
Mae West
#25. Imagine, Dracula a pawn in the hands of the infidel. I wasted no time there-I learned everything I could about them, so that I might surpass them all. That was when I vowed to make history, not to be its victim.
Elizabeth Kostova
#26. One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
Peace Pilgrim
#28. I'm not here to make money, I'm here to make history.
Lenny Dykstra
#30. For heroes do not make history - that is the historian's job - but, passive, let themselves be borne along, swept up to the crest of the tide of change, of chance, of war.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#31. History narrates stories about great men from the past,write your story now and make history
Mohammed Sekouty
#32. You want to be a part of something that is going to change history or make history or be bigger than yourself.
Sarah Gadon
#33. Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.
Robert Penn Warren
#34. It is not the neutrals or the lukewarm who make history.
Adolf Hitler
#36. The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#37. Did I invent anything? I don't think so, not really. But if I've helped make history fun ... then my work here is done.
Lauren Willig
#38. A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock.
Dan Simmons
#39. I am often appalled by those who make history, but inspired by those who do not." -Morgana le Fey/Morgana Cornwall
J.M. Briggs
#40. Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk.
J.C. Penny
#42. [A writer] cannot serve today those who make history; he must serve those who are subject to it.
Albert Camus
#43. To misbehave us to denounce the social norms that limit individuals based on who they are. That to make history is to upset patriarchy, a system that is intent on controlling and marginalising others.
Malebo Sephodi
#45. It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.
Norman Mailer
#46. The remarkable legion of the unremarked, whose individual opinions are not colorful or different enough to make news, but whose collective opinion, when crystallized, can make history.
William Safire
#47. People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#48. Take everything you know. Take your whole selves. Be inclusive. Be open. Make history in the infinite ways that your heart takes you.
Megan Smith
#49. I did not come to NASA to make history.
Sally Ride
#50. We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money.
Don Simpson
#51. God enters our lives when through our creative interchanges we make history more just.
Huston Smith
#52. At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all about Acts, Trade Unions and the factory system, and I wanted to know about people, because it is people who make history.
Alison Weir
#53. If you don't play, then don't pick up a paycheck. Competition is why you play the game. I understand they've already reached some goals. That's all good. But if you can make history, take a shot at it.
Mike Ditka
#55. There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
Camilo Jose Cela
#56. Something about her was different that day. In an instant, she swallowed her regrets, choked back her past, and swore to make history every damn day. There I stood, struggling to make sense of the strength of a woman.
J. Raymond
#57. When we approach history, we are dealing with a conglomeration of irrational continua. Those who deal with history by nonrational processes are the ones who make history, the actors in it.
Carroll Quigley
#58. If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.
George Nethercutt
#60. Americans Never Quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We Make History.
-John McCain
John McCain
#61. Neutrals and lukewarms do not make history.
Adolf Hitler
#62. In every era, there are only one or two moments when nations come together and reach agreements that make history, because they change the course of history.
Gordon Brown
#63. Individuals make history, but it's also a collective thing, a wave that people ride in their time, a wave made of individual actions. So ultimately history is another particle/wave duality that no one can parse or understand.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#64. The sun shone on us, the water sparkled, the oar-blades dipped and we were gone. Gone to make history.
Bernard Cornwell
#65. I've told myself I have a chance to make history, and that's my focus.
Jordan Spieth
#66. I have always believed that cowards never make history, history is created by people with courage and wisdom. Courage is individual, wisdom comes with experience.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#68. If you want to make history, you have to do historic things
Kobe Bryant
#70. By definition he [the writer] cannot put himself today in the service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it
Albert Camus
#71. I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now.
Big Pun
#72. Sammy Sosa's a September player, so you have to watch out for him. It's crunch time, time to make history.
Mark McGwire
#75. Canada is our country. It belongs to us and we belong to it. Let us join together, in our time, and make history once again.
Paul Martin
#76. When unique voices are united in a common cause, they make history.
Gloria Steinem
#77. The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it.
Julian Cope
#78. You can't make history all the time, Dougie.
Sometimes the best you can do is make money.
James Ellroy
#79. I'm from a very violent city. I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana, and it's good to see me be able to express my art, have a good opportunity for my life, make history and say something, without being violent.
Jason Mitchell
#80. Work hard, have fun and make history.
Jeff Bezos
#83. Hitler is the rare individual who really did make history - specifically he made it worse.
John Green
#84. It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality. Conversely, it just takes skilful storytelling to recharge that connection to make the past come alive in our present.
Simon Schama
#85. Excuse me? Does anyoone know where I can find a Mr. and Mrs. Froste? They told me to meet them here this afternoon. Apparently they want to discuss a job. Something that could 'really make history'. Their words.
- Arin
Matt De La Pena
#86. Generals, admirals, kings, and presidents make history; words change history. In more than two centuries of watching, at least that has not changed. -- Joshua Augustus Johnson. "Appomattox
Lloyd Vancil
#87. Scared is the price brave people pay to enjoy lives that make history.
Robin Sharma
#88. It would be great to bust through and make history. But what's more important is the opportunity to continue to get roles that are complicated and wonderful, to be a part of the narrative and to get to do what our counterparts are able to do. It doesn't just stop at holding an award.
Viola Davis
#89. The best players in the world are playing to make history. There are only four tournaments you can win to make history, and TPC (The Players Championship) is not one of them. And neither are those world events. And you're not going to make history winning some kind of FedEx Cup.
Paul Azinger
#90. Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.
Joseph J. Ellis
#91. Presidents make history but are also a product of it. And there are two kinds: transforming and transactional. Reagan was a transforming president. He made history.
David E. Hoffman
#94. Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.
Oscar Wilde
#95. Most artists want first and foremost to be loved, secondly to make history, and money is a distant third or fourth.
Kenneth Goldsmith
#96. We want to assist China's soft power; we want to develop a vibrant young cinema in China. The average American has no understanding whatsoever of China. We'd like to create a young generation to tell their stories on a world stage. We can make history as well as make money.
Robert Friedland
#97. Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.
Oscar Wilde
#98. History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
Ferdinand Marcos
#100. Peter Maurin always says that it is the duty of the journalist to make history as well as record it. - Dorothy Day
Patrick Jordan
