Famous Quotes

"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him."

Dwight D. Eisenhower on History

More quotes about History

• "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 Dwight D. Eisenhower

• "Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."

• "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

• "Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

• "The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy."

• "If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order."