#history

There is a camaraderie that grows up among those who work with old books and old papers, largely, I suspect, because we understand that we are at odds with the rest of the world: we are travelling backwards, while all those around us are still moving forward. ↗

— Peter Ackroyd

#inspirational #inspirational

Hay que ser duro pero jamas perder la ternura. [It is necessary to be hard but never to lose the tenderness] ↗

— Ernesto Guevara

#historyofpower #inspirational #politics #inspirational

...never give in, never give in... ↗

— Winston Churchill

#inspirational #military-history #inspirational

And, if you'll investigate the history of science, my dear boy, I think you'll find that most of the really big ideas have come from intelligent playfulness. All the sober, thin-lipped concentration is really just a matter of tidying up around the fringes of the big ideas. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#history #history-of-science #ideas #intelligent-playfulness #science

Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary. ↗

— Iveta Cherneva

#leadership #risk-taking #timid #leadership

Like some translucen latterday Cassandra, the prophetess of doom, (Heila the Comptesse von Westarp, the former secretary of the Thule Gesellschaff) rose up from the bosom of the limp and slumbering medium (Dr. Nemirovitch-Dantchanko) to give a warning that the man who was even now preparing to assume the leadership of Thule would prove himself to be a false prophet. Assuming total power over the nation, he would be responsible one day for reducing the whole of Germany to rubble and its people to a defeat and moreal degradation hitherto unknown to history. ↗

— Trevor Ravenscroft

#history #jesus-christ #the-occult #thule #leadership

Many people read History books but it takes just a few people to LEAD the cause that will shape the course of HISTORY. ↗

— Fela Durotoye

#history #inspirational #leaders #leadership #people

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

#happiness #history #inspirational #let-go #letting-go

Much of what we call History is the success stories of madmen. ↗

— John Holt

#history #education

In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from these hidden source in individuals. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#individual #world #life