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Famous Quotes
"History is a vision of God's creation on the move."
More quotes about History
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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Confucius on History -
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."
Abraham Lincoln on History -
"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."
Mahatma Gandhi on History -
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."
Franklin D. Roosevelt on History -
"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
Thomas Jefferson on History
More quotes by Arnold J. Toynbee
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"A life which does not go into action is a failure."
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"As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility."
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"Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God."
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"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."
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"Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now."