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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
— Mother Teresa
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
— Thomas A. Edison
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages."
— William Shakespeare
"My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite."
— William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
Mother Teresa
"Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson (In Memoriam)
"I could be martyred for my religion.
Love is my religion
and I could die for that.
I could die for you."
— John Keats
"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."
— John Keats
"With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things."
— William Wordsworth
"I am very happy
Because I have conquered myself
And not the world.
I am very happy
Because I have loved the world
And not myself."
— Sri Chinmoy
"Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest."
— Sri Chinmoy
"Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever."
— Sri Chinmoy
"My God is love and sweetly suffers all."
— Sri Aurobindo (Savitri)
When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence."
— Sri Aurobindo
"True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become."
— Sri Aurobindo
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
— Jalal-al-Din Rumi
"If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?"
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
Here's where you'll find a collection of history quotes that inspires.
Some of these are enlightening, some make you smile, and all are quotes about history and they tend to make you think.
When I was a student, all I was concerned about was memorizing the details so I could pass my history tests. It was long lessons with little reprieve till I met a professor who was passionate about sharing history. He made me sit up and listen to his tales and interesting recounts of world civilizations. Suddenly history became so much more interesting. His passion made history digestible and more colorful than ever before for a roomful of students.
Whether you are a history buff, or a student trying to comprehend the usefulness of history in one's life, or a scrapbooker wanting to add some quotes to your layouts, may you find the right quote from this collection. Enjoy!
A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't know history. He don't know it, but history will know him. He has made more history than his critics ever read.
-- Will Rogers
All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
-- Oscar Wilde
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
-- David Ben Gurion
Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.
-- George Macaulay Trevelyan
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
-- Robert F. Kennedy
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
-- Maya Angelou
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
-- David C. McCullough
History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity.
-- Dexter Perkins
History is a vast early warning system.
-- Norman Cousins
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.
-- Kurt Vonnegut
History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.
-- Henry Ford
History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.
-- Etienne Gilson
History is written by the victors.
-- Winston Churchill
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
-- John W. Gardner
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
-- Thomas Jefferson
I think a secure profession for young people is history teacher, because in the future, there will be so much more of it to teach.
-- Bill Muse
Ideas shape the course of history.
-- John Maynard Keynes
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
-- Rudyard Kipling
Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other people's mistakes.
-- Phillip Guedala
People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.
-- Jane Haddam
People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".
-- Ken Burns
Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.â€
-- Mahatma Gandhi
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice - their choice.
-- Dwight David Eisenhower
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
-- George Santayana
Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.
-- African Proverb
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
-- George Bernard Shaw
Well behaved women rarely make history.
-- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
-- Victor Hugo
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
-- Haile Selassie
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Chiasmus: two otherwise parallel phrases with the second being a reverse order of the first. A famous illustration is Cicero's “One should eat to live, not live to eat.”
This month's gathering saw the most famous wits and personalities vying for the Champion of Chiasmus title. The judges are none other than yourselves. Hear them out and support your favorite team by casting your vote below.
~ Round 1 – The Presidential Team ~
John F. Kennedy: And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
Abraham Lincoln: 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.
Ronald Reagan: Nations do not mistrust each other because they are armed; they are armed because they mistrust each other.
Mao Zedong: Politics is war carried out without bloodshed, while war is politics carried out with bloodshed.
John F. Kennedy: Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
Bill Clinton: As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.
Abraham Lincoln: It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time.
Georges Pompidou: A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.
Jimmy Carter: America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented America.
Franklin D. Roosevelt: We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Woodrow Wilson: I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!
~ Round 2 – The Thinkers Team ~
Francis Bacon: If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainty.
Laozi: Failure is the foundation of success; success is the lurking place of failure.
Baruch Spinoza: Fear cannot be without some hope nor hope without some fear.
Bernard Baruch: Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
Benjamin Disraeli: Action may not always bring happiness ... but there is no happiness without action.
Leonardo da Vinci: Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
Havelock Ellis: Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
Cicero: Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Confucius: The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.
Erich Fromm: Infantile love follows the principle: 'I love because I am loved.' Mature love follows the principle: 'I am loved because I love.' Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.'
Alfred North Whitehead: The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
Jefferson Davis: Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.
~ Round 3 – The Writers Team ~
Zig Ziglar: You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
W. Somerset Maugham: At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Thomas Huxley: Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
Phillips Brooks: Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Cyril Connolly: Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
F. Scott Fitzgerald: You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
G. K. Chesterton: There is a great deal of difference between the eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Sam Ewing: It's not the hours you put in your work that count, it's work you put in the hours.
Edgar Watson Howe: A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes.
Helen Rowland: To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning but to a man it is the beginning of the end.
Peter De Vries: The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Thomas à Kempis: A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.
William Shakespeare: O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.
John Churton Collins: Half of our mistakes in life arises from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
H. L. Mencken: It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
Mark Twain: It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Kahlil Gibran: When you love you should not say, 'God is in my heart,' but rather, 'I am in the heart of God.' And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Elbert Hubbard: If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion.
~ Round 4 – The Underdogs Team ~
Mae West: It's not the men in my life, but the life in my men.
Anonymous: Marriage is the price men pay for sex; sex is the price women pay for marriage.
Jim Backus: Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
Amy Carmichael: You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
E. Y. Harburg: To let a fool kiss you is stupid. To let a kiss fool you is worse.
Mason Cooley: Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.: A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.: You have to put your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
Gene Mauch: I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.
Herb Kelleher: Think small and act small, and we'll get bigger. Think big and act big, and we'll get smaller.
Anonymous: Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
Jean Cocteau: Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion ... produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Anonymous: The secret of life is not to do what you like but to like what you do.
Kevin Costner: When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.
Walter Winchell: Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.
The waist is a terrible thing to mind.
The mind is a terrible thing to waste.
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Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Beauty - Grace Quotes - Emerson
“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 82) U.S. essayist, poet, and orator
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Opinions Quotes - William Blake
“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
William Blake (1757 – 1827) English poet and painter
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Imagination Quotes - Simone Weil
“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”
Simone Weil (1909 – 43) French philosopher and mystic
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Innovation Quotes - Peter Bonfield
“Doing the things we do now and doing them better, cheaper and faster will take us so far. But it will not take us far enough. We're going to have to do new things in new ways.”
Peter Bonfield (b. 1944) British C.E.O. of British Telecom
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Leadership Quotes - Gail Sheehy
“The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.”
Gail Sheehy (b. 1937) U.S. writer and lecturer
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Character Quotes - Edward Wilmot Blyden
“If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no pleasure, no use, nothing which will attract and charm me, for by the suppression of your individuality, you lose your distinctive character.”
Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832 – 1912) Liberian statesman
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Worry - Money Quotes - Tillie Olsen
“Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to clean.”
Tillie Olsen (1913 - 2007) U.S. writer
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