Changes In History Quotes

If you read the life of great men and women who made important changes in history, there are two common features: One, they were angry at the state of affairs and, two, they were people of faith.

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.

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

You keep plugging away–that’s the way social change takes place. That’s the way every social change in history has taken place: by a lot of people, who nobody ever heard of, doing work.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Is it really so terrible being around us?” I blushed. “No,” I said. “But . . . it’s complicated. I’ve been taught certain things my entire life. Those are hard to shake.” “The greatest changes in history have come because people were able to shake off what others told them to do.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

The greatest changes in history have come when people were able to shake off what others told them to do.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussions.

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.