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Quotes About History – What do you remember about history? Everything that happens in this world must have historical value contained in it.
There is a lot of history that has more meaning in it as a lesson in it. a lot of history that has a meaning of struggle for all of us.
From history also born a new thought that is sometimes useful for us today as a common reminder of the history that already exists.
We live can not be separated from history in which all things that happen will definitely be associated with history.
The greatness of history is not only about what has happened, but what has been done and the meaning for us all in the extraordinary historical meaning around us.
Therefore, remembering history, civilization and unique ties in our history will bring some unique history that can be used as a reminder for us together, through the following quotes that inspire and motivate the history that surrounds us.
Here are 200 quotes about history as a reminder and motivation for us together in remembering the history that happened in our lives and around the following.
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Quotes About History, Reminder Of What Happening Around Us
1. “It’s not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. The question is, what are you industrious about?” – Henry David Thoreau
2. “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door” – Coco Chanel
3. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb
4. “Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday and avoiding today.” – Wayne Dyer
5. “Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.” – Hermann Hesse
6. “Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.” – Victor Hugo
7. “If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.” – Black Elk
8. “The best prophet of the future is the past.” – Lord Byron
9. “People always fear what they don’t understand. History proves that.” – Libba Bray
10. “The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.” – Adolf Hitler
11. “On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.” – Alfred de Vigny
12. “Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.” – Arthur Henderson
13. “Anyone who believes you can’t change history has never tried to write his memoirs.” – David Ben Gurion
14. “History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism.” – Stephane Hessel
15. “History is information. Memory is part of your identity.” – David Miliband
16. “The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.” – Ernest Dimnet
17. “What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.” – Victor Hugo
18. “If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.” – Baruch Spinoza
19. “History never looks like history when you are living through it.” – John W. Gardner
20. “History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.” – George W. Bush
21. “The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.” – Max Lerner
22. “History is a set of lies agreed upon.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
23. “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.” – Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays
24.“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” – Rosa Luxemburg
25. “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” – Edmund Burke
26. “There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can’t decipher. what we can’t understand we call nonsense. What we can’t read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables.” – Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
27. “History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, ‘What is history, but a fable agreed upon?” – Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
28. “History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” – James Joyce, Ulysses
29. “Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
30. “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” – L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between
31. “If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.” – Michael Crichton
32. “History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.” – Konrad Adenauer
33. “History is a vast early warning system.” – Norman Cousins
34. “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” – Edmund Burke
35. “We are not makers of history. We are made by history.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
36. “If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.” – Rudyard Kipling
37. “History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.” – John Dalberg-Acton
38. “You know the saying: he who doesn’t understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it’s repeated, the stakes are doubled.” – Pittacus Lore
39. “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.” – Aldous Huxley
40. “A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.” – Mahatma Gandhi
41. “I can’t change history, I don’t want to change history. I can only change the future. I’m working on that.” – Boris Becker
42. “One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.” – Golda Meir
43. “Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.” – Louis D. Brandeis
44. “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” – Karl Marx
45. “History is who we are and why we are the way we are.” – David McCullough
46. “The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” – Winston Churchill
47. “The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.” – Peter L. Berger
48. “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” – Marcus Garvey
49. “History is important. If you don’t know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no way of checking up on it.” – Howard Zinn
50. “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” – Maya Angelou
51. “Human history in essence is the history of ideas.” – H. G. Wells
52. “History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.” – George R.R. Martin
53. “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” – Leo Tolstoy
54. “Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.” – Theophrastus.
55. “The most precious resource we all have is time.” – Steve Jobs
56. “Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” – George Orwell
57. “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
58. “The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.” – Stephen R. Covey
59. “Time is nature’s way to keep everything from happening all at once.” – John Archibald Wheeler
60. “Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.” – Mason Cooley
61. “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” – Bruce Lee
62. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” – Charles Darwin
63. “Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.” – Harvey Mackay
64. “We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.” – Nelson Mandela
65. “…Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!…His factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes.” – Charles Dickens
66. “Don’t wait. The time will never be ‘just right.” – Napoleon Hill
67. “Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.” – Haruki Murakami
68. “There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.” – Bill Watterson
69. “Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.” – Robert Orben
70. “But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.” – Virgil
71. “When you get a groove going, time flies.” – Donald Fagen
72. “Life is so fast. And I still remember when I came up to the big leagues and played as if it were yesterday. Time flies.” – Asdrubal Cabrera
73. “History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.” – Lawrence Durrell
74. “Life moves fast. As much as you can, learn from your history, you have to move forward.” – Eddie Vedder
75. “It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.” – Jenny Han
76. “Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.” – Will Durant
77. “Big things are built one brick at a time. Victories are achieved one choice at a time. A life well lived is chosen one day at a time.” – Lysa TerKeurst
78. “One day at a time is all we do. One day at a time is good for you.” – John Lennon
79. “Live one day at a time and make it a masterpiece.” – Dale West
80. “I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got today, that’s what you’ve got.” – Al Pacino
81. “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” – Winston S. Churchill
82. “The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.” – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
83. “If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, “He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.” – Epictetus
84. “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” – Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
85. “History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.” – James Fenimore Cooper,
86. “Study the past if you would define the future.” – Confucius
87. “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
88. “The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.” – Alan Bennett, The History Boys
89. “If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree. ” – Michael Crichton
90. “I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.” – Virginia Woolf
91. “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” – George Orwell
92. “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” – Mark Twain
93. “thus with a kiss I die” – William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
94. “People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn’t.” – Christopher Paolini, Eragon
95. “Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.” – Zadie Smith, White Teeth
96. “I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.” – Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
97. “The first duty of a man is to think for himself” – Jose Marti
98. “Never say more than is necessary.” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
99. “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
100. “We’ll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.” – Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
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101. “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” – Rosa Parks
102. “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” – Benjamin Franklin
103. “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” -Sheryl Sandberg
104. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” -Florence Nightingale
105. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” -Vincent van Gogh
106. “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” -Oprah Winfrey
107. “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” -Gloria Steinem
108. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” -Napoleon Hill
109. “First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.” -Aristotle
110. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.” -Mark Twain
111. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
112. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” -Walt Disney
113. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” – Steve Jobs
114. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
115. “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” – Oprah Winfrey
116. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” – James Cameron
117. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
118. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” -Mother Teresa
119. “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
120 “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” -Margaret Mead
121. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
122. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
123. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” -Benjamin Franklin
124. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” -Helen Keller
125. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” -Aristotle
126. “Whoever is happy will make others happy too.” -Anne Frank
127. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
128. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.” -Henry David Thoreau
129. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” -Nelson Mandela
130. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” -Confucius
131. “May you live all the days of your life.” -Jonathan Swift
132. “Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” -Hans Christian Andersen
133. “Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.” -John Wooden
134. “Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.” -D. H. Lawrence
135. “Love the life you live. Live the life you love.” -Bob Marley
136. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” -Helen Keller
137. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” -Dr. Seuss
138. “Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.” -Charles Dickens
139. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” -Steve Jobs
140. “Life is trying things to see if they work.” -Ray Bradbury
141. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” -Thomas A. Edison
142. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” -Albert Einstein
143. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” -John D. Rockefeller
144. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.” -Abraham Lincoln
145. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” -Winston Churchill
146. “You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it.” – Oprah Winfrey
147. “If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less than excellent work.” -Thomas J. Watson
148. “If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient.” – Gurbaksh Chahal
149. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” -Vidal Sassoon
150. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” -Jim Rohn
151. “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” -Alexander Graham Bell
152. “People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” -Tony Robbins
153. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
154. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” -Theodore Roosevelt
155. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” – Mother Teresa
156. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!'” – Audrey Hepburn
157. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
158. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
159. “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” -Vince Lombardi
160. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” -Henry Ford
161. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” -Wayne Gretzky
162. “You become what you believe.” -Oprah Winfrey
163. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” -Amelia Earhart
164. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” -Anne Frank
165. “An unexamined life is not worth living.” -Socrates
166. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” -George Addair
167. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life and be without flavor.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
168. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” -Abraham Lincoln
169. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
170. “You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” -Maya Angelou
171. “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” -Babe Ruth
172. “Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” -Oscar Wilde
173. “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” -Tony Robbins
174. “In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.” -Mother Teresa
175. “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” -Albert Einstein
176. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
177. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
178. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” -Maya Angelou
179. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” -Ayn Rand
180. “Dream big and dare to fail.” -Norman Vaughan
181. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” -Beverly Sills
182. “Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” -Charles Swindoll
183. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!'” -Audrey Hepburn
184. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” -Confucius
185. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” -Henry Ford
186. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” -Les Brown
187. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” – Mother Teresa
188. “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
189. “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” – Margaret Mead
190. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
191. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
192. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin
193. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
194. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle
195. “Whoever is happy will make others happy too.” – Anne Frank
196. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
197. “Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” -Marilyn Monroe
198. “Life is a long lesson in humility.” -James M. Barrie
199. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” -Robert Frost
200. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill
That’s it, 200 quotes about history taken from the history that happened around us all. as a new reminder and motivation for all of us. Hopefully we can take lessons and motivations in it together.