Making History Quotes

• The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Military, Writing, History

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• I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Love, Inspirational, Graduation

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• As we struggle to overcome our troubles, we are making history and fulling our destiny. Keep pressing!

  T. B. Joshua

  Struggle, Destiny, Overcoming

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• Take a stand for what's right. Raise a ruckus and make a change. You may not always be popular, but you'll be part of something larger and bigger and greater than yourself. Besides, making history is extremely cool.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  May, Making Changes, Bigger

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• Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history.

  John Eliot

  Critics, Exceptional, Thinker

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.97, Diversion Books

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• We know that we are close to making history.

  Lionel Messi

  Soccer, Knows

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• No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Greatness, History

  On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic "The Hero as Divinity" (1841)

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• Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Greatness, Men

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 1 (1891)

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• Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

  Karl Marx

  Past, Men, Brain

  The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon pt. 1 (1852)

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• I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Vision, World, Village

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• Well-behaved women seldom make history.

  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

  Funny, Strength, Inspiring

  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (2015). “The Slogan”, Vintage

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• Imagine a history teacher making history.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Teacher, Imagine, Global Village

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• I'm headed towards greatness. I think I'm making history in hip-hop.

  Soulja Boy

  Greatness, Thinking, Hip Hop

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• You have to dream. We all have to dream. Dreaming is OK. Imagine me teaching from space, all over the world, touching so many peoples lives. Thats a teachers dream! I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries. Imagine a history teacher making history!

  Christa McAuliffe

  Dream, Teacher, Teaching

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• Roll up your sleeves, set your mind to making history, and wage such a fight for liberty that the whole world will respect our sex.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Sex, Fighting, Mind

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• Ages employed in making history have no time for studying it.

  Solomon Schechter

  Age, Study, Employed

  Solomon Schechter (1970). “Studies in Judaism: Essays on Persons, Concepts, and Movements of Thought in Jewish Tradition”

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• I want to be remembered for the good things - for winning the Champions League, for winning five of the first six trophies at Barcelona. I could win another Champions League and I want to go on making history. It goes back to the feeling of more responsibility at Liverpool. I felt I had to suffer more to not be criticised but here the responsibility falls on others too and I can enjoy it more.

  Luis Suarez

  Fall, Responsibility, Winning

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• A lot of times, films tell stories about the time we live in. So when making history, it´s just as important to give the female perspective as well as the male. We need female voices. Take a risk. Be personal.

  Anne Sewitsky

  Voice, Perspective, Giving

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy; in fact what it is doing seems to be making itself more unhappy and calling that unhappiness progress.

  Norman O. Brown

  Ideas, Progress, Unhappy

  Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.16, Wesleyan University Press

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• I had serious training of painting styles from different historical periods... But to have all this training is not enough to be an artist. You have to add a new page to history; otherwise you are not making a contribution. But making history is not easy.

  Liu Dan

  Artist, History, Historical

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• Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned,-the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.

  Lord Acton

  Fall, Writing, Learning

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.231, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I wasn't thinking about history. I was thinking about how we were going to end segregation at lunch counters in Atlanta, Georgia.We would have never thought about making history, we just thought: Here is our chance to get out our sense of rejection at this kind of racial discrimination. I don't know that there was a time that anybody growing up in the South wasn't enraged about being segregated and being discriminated against.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Growing Up, Thinking, Atlanta

  Interview with Jurnee Smollett-Bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Hands, Wish

  Groucho Marx (2000). “The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and about Groucho Marx”, Vintage

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• Madam, you're making history, in fact, you're making me, and I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Hands, Wish

  Groucho Marx (2000). “The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and about Groucho Marx”, Vintage

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• There is nothing new in Egypt. Egyptians are making history as usual.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Egypt, Usual, Revolution

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