The 100 most famous phrases in the history of humanity

The story is not only built with facts, but also with quotes and reflections that captivate people's minds. and manage to influence the development of the future of society. Words have power and can move people towards a better destiny.

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Best quotes in human history

With this selection of great phrases in the history of humanity, you will be able to reflect on your own world, using the experience of famous characters.

1. The way to start is to stop talking and start doing. (Walt Disney)

Let your works speak for you.

2. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Do not stop dreaming.

3. You will never find a rainbow if you look down. (Charles Chaplin)

Walk looking at the horizon, never lower your head.

4. You don't have to go back or give yourself momentum. (Lao Tse)

Don't look back, just move on.

5. To work, it is enough to be convinced of one thing: that working is less boring than having fun. (Charles Baudelaire)

Work can also be fun if you change your attitude.

6. Wars will continue as long as skin color is more important than eye color. (Bob Marley)

Skin color will continue to be a source of contention until we accept ourselves as we are.

7. It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. (Dolores Ibarruri)

Do not kneel before anyone, because no person has the right to humiliate you.

8. Of all the animals in creation, man is the only one who drinks without being thirsty, eats without being hungry, and talks without having anything to say. (John Steinbeck)

Man does things simply for the sake of doing them.

9. It takes a lifetime to learn to live. (Seneca)

Life is too short to know how to take advantage of it.

10. Architecture is the least bribeable witness in history. (Octavio Paz)

The buildings are clear examples of the importance of standing up.

11. Human beings make their own history, albeit under circumstances influenced by the past. (Karl Marx)

You are the only one who can make your own story.

12. Perhaps the greatest lesson of history is that no one has learned the lessons of history. (Aldous Leonard Huxley)

We do not learn from the past, because we make the same mistakes.

13. I often marvel that the story is so heavy, because so much of it must be pure invention. (Jane Austen)

For many, the past represents only boredom.

14. Even the past can be changed; Historians do not stop proving it. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

History is in constant motion.

15. History is a relentless start again. (Thucydides)

Life is an eternal beginning.

16. The destiny of all depends on the realization of each one. (Alexander the Great)

Each person is responsible for his own destiny.

17. Give me a foothold and I will move the world. (Archimedes)

It is always good to lean on others to do good things.

18. You cannot afford to be handicapped in spirit as well as physically. (Stephen Hawking)

It is not the same to have a physical disability than a spiritual one, with the first you live, but with the second life is irremediably declining.

19. Innovation distinguishes leaders from followers. (Steve Jobs)

Be different so that you stand out from others.

20. The secret of human existence is not only in living, but also in knowing what one lives for. (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

Make your life have a purpose.

21. Always give more than what is expected of you. (Larry Page)

When you help others, do it in such a way that they see your good eyes.

22. You don't have to go back or give yourself momentum. (Lao Tse)

There is nothing truly important like having peace.

23. There is nothing a man can't do when a woman looks at him. (Casanova)

The attraction to the opposite sex makes impossible things happen.

24. It is better to act exposing yourself to regret it than to regret not having done anything. (Giovanni Boccaccio)

The key to success is to do things on time so you don't have to regret not doing it on time.

25. Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. That is the equation. (Averroes)

Fear is the product of ignorance, which triggers violence.

26. You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free. (Thich Nhat Hanh)

Loving is not synonymous with ties.

27. I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I retreat to another room and read a book. (Groucho Marx)

Reading a good book is much more educational and you learn more.

28. They can cut all the flowers, but they can't stop the spring. (Pablo Neruda)

There are things that we cannot avoid, even when we fight against them.

29. Few see what we are, but all see what we appear to be. (Machiavelli)

Few people really know us as we are.

30. If you approach every situation as a matter of life and death, you will die many times. (Adam Smith)

Every situation has a solution, so don't worry, just take care.

31. The greater the difficulty, the more glory there is in overcoming it. (Epicurus)

Do not stop before a difficulty, there is always a way to overcome it.

32. One of the most necessary and most forgotten extremes in relation to that novel called History is the fact that it is not finished. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

The story never ends because there is always something new to tell.

33. A historical spirit can have no doubt that the time of the resurrection has arrived. (Novalis)

Life is a constant rebirth.

34. History is always a fantasy without a scientific basis, and when you want to build an invulnerable and placing a consequence on it, there is a danger that a piece of information will change and the entire framework will collapse historical. (Pio Baroja)

History is an experience that has several aspects.

35. May your food be your first medicine. (Hippocrates)

Many people get sick simply from not eating well.

36. We expect anything to happen, and we are never forewarned at all. (Sophie Soynonov)

We want things to happen, but we don't prepare for it.

37. There are three "many" and three "few" that destroy people: spending a lot and having little. Much talk and little knowledge. A lot of bragging and little worth. (Spanish proverb)

Don't spend more than you have, don't say what you don't know, and don't feel superior to anyone.

38. Keep calm and carry on. (Winston Churchill)

When you face a problem, stay calm, take a breath, and move on.

39. Living alone is like being at a party where no one pays attention to you. (Marilyn Monroe)

Living alone can be very difficult for some people.

40. One owns what is silent and a slave to what speaks. (Sigmund Freud)

It is better to be silent than to say something inappropriate.

41. Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. (Picasso)

If you don't work, inspiration is useless.

42. All history is nothing more than an infinite catastrophe from which we try to get out as best as possible. (Italo Calvino)

History has judged the performance of others.

43. What counts is not who you are, but who you think you are. (Andy Warhol)

The opinion you have of yourself is what really counts.

44. It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which then seem so easy and simple. (Georg C. Lichtenberg)

If others are capable of making it extraordinary, so can you.

45. Life is not about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself. (George Bernard Shaw)

In the course of life is that we are formed as human beings.

46. Humility is not thinking that you are less, it is thinking less about yourself. (C. S. Lewis)

Being humble does not mean humiliation.

47. Time is the best anthologist, or the only one, perhaps. (Jorge Luis Borges)

Time heals all.

48. Do not count the days make the days count. (Muhammad Ali)

Don't focus on the days, but on what you do with them.

49. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. (Mae West)

Live in such a way that everyone remembers you with a smile on your lips.

50. Do not open your lips if you are not sure that what you are going to say is more beautiful than silence. (Arabic proverb)

If what you are going to say harms someone, it is better to remain silent.

51. Success has many parents, but failure is an orphan. (John Kennedy)

When you are successful, there are people around you, but when you fail, no one is left.

52. Boredom is the main explanation for why history is so full of atrocity. (Fernando Savater)

An idle mind is capable of anything.

53. We cannot make history, but only wait for it to unfold. (Otto von Bismark)

Life is progress, that's why you have to keep going.

54. Without contradiction, there is no evolution; if there is no contradiction, there is no tomorrow. (Hegel)

As long as there are arguments to follow, the road does not end.

55. He who doubts and does not investigate becomes not only unhappy, but also unfair. (Pascal)

When you have doubts about something, research about it.

56. Making love is undoing the light, redoing history, abandoning the cross, biting desire, taking off the disguise, scraping your fingers, leaving your soul in peace. (Miguel Mateos)

Love is a force that can do everything.

57. If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. (William James)

Put the talent you have to work, everything will be better.

58. Friendship can only take place through the development of mutual respect and in a spirit of sincerity. (Dalai Lama)

Friendship is based on mutual respect and sincerity.

59. There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run, the sword will always be conquered by the spirit. (Napoleon Bonaparte)

The spiritual will always prevail in the face of any difficulty.

60. You were not raised to live like beasts, but to pursue virtue and wisdom. (Dante Alighieri)

Man is a rational being and full of wisdom.

61. Men learn little from the experience of others. But in life, he never turns at the same time. (Thomas Stearns Eliot)

You have to learn through your own experiences and not through others.

62. Never break the silence if it is not for improve it. (Beethoven)

If you don't have something productive to say, then keep quiet.

63. Even people who say we can't do anything to change our destiny look before they cross the street. (Stephen Hawking)

Changing our destiny is only in our hands.

64. What really matters in life is not the goals we set for ourselves, but the paths we follow to achieve them. (Peter Bamm)

Do not focus only on the goal, but on the path that leads you to it.

65. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. (Oscar Wilde)

Don't be a copy of someone else, just be yourself.

66. The most wasted day of all days is the one in which we have not laughed. (Nicolas-Sebastien Roch)

The smile is a weapon that conquers many things when used.

67. The past is like a lamp placed at the entrance to the future. (Félicité Robert de Lamennais)

Just look in the past for learning that you can put into practice today.

68. We must think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without each other, without the tree. (Pau Casals)

We must know how to live with others, because we are all a team.

69. Politics is the second oldest profession in history. Sometimes I think it's a lot like the first one. (Ronald Reagan)

Politics is as old as the history of humanity.

70. History can truly be defined as an illustrious war against time. (Alessandro Manzoni)

History only reminds us that the weather is inclement and passes too fast.

71. The story is, more or less, a simplicity. It is tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only story that has any value is the one we make. (Henry Ford)

You write your story yourself.

72. Man was born free and yet lives everywhere in chains. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

Freedom is a very precious commodity.

73. The wise man can change his mind. The fool, never. (Immanuel Kant)

It is wise to change your mind.

74. When a battle is lost, the retreat remains; only those who have fled can fight in another. (Demosthenes)

If something didn't go as expected, it's a good idea to step aside so you can continue.

75. Doubt is the mother of invention. (Galileo Galilei)

If you have doubts, then, look for a way to clarify them.

76. He who owns the most, is more afraid of losing it. (Leonardo da Vinci)

For many people who have large possessions, they live in fear as losing everything is something they do not want to experience.

77. It is not healthy to be adapted to a deeply sick society. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

Don't live in an unhealthy environment, have the courage to get out of it.

78. The foundation of a healthy brain is kindness, and it can be trained. (Richard Davidson)

Being kind is a lifestyle that brings peace.

79. The architect of your own reality is you. You're free! (Karin Schlanger)

Don't allow others to want to build your life, that responsibility is only yours.

80. Humility is a way of being, not of appearing. (Alejandro Jodorowski)

Humility is having respect for something.

81. No man is good enough to rule others without their consent. (Abraham Lincoln)

Nobody has the permission to change your life, if you don't want it.

82. If it's good to live, it's still better to dream, and best of all, to wake up. (Antonio Machado)

Dream, but have the strength to carry out each of the things you hope for.

83. The measure of love is to love without measure. (San Agustin)

Love with all your heart without expecting anything in return.

84. The most important successes are achieved when there is the possibility of failure. (Mark Zuckerberg)

Failure prepares you for success, don't forget that.

85. Education is the most powerful weapon to change the world. (Nelson Mandela)

Having knowledge is what allows you to open all doors.

86. I love betrayal, but I hate the traitor. (Gaius Julius Caesar)

Betrayal hurts, but it's more painful to know who does it.

87. When someone is feared it is because we have given that someone power over us. (Herman Hesse)

Do not give another the power to control you.

88. I think, therefore I am. (Rene Descartes)

First think about what you are going to do and then put it into action.

89. Being young and not being a revolutionary is even a biological contradiction. (Salvador Allende)

Even though something is a stereotype, it doesn't mean it has to be.

90. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. (Albert Einstein)

It's good to do different things so as not to get bored.

91. Someone sits in a shadow today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. (Warren Buffett)

May your walk be an example to follow.

92. Happy the people whose history is read with boredom. (Montesquieu)

Reading is essential to know everything that surrounds us.

93. Not knowing what has happened before us is like endlessly being children. (Cicero)

You have to know history well to be able to understand the world we inhabit.

94. Sins write history, good is silent. (Goethe)

The mistakes that are made, is what stands out the most.

95. The most philosophical part of the stories is to make known the nonsense committed by men. (Voltaire)

Just as man is capable of doing good things, he also makes many mistakes.

96. Education is the passport to the future, tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. (Malcolm X)

Education is a tool that allows you to open doors, even if they are very difficult to break down.

97. The world is beautiful, but it has a defect called man. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Unfortunately, man has in his hands the power to both build and destroy.

98. No person deserves your tears, and whoever deserves them won't make you cry. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

A person who really loves you does not make you suffer.

99. He learns to live and you will know how to die well. (Confucius)

For who does the things he loves, one life is enough.

100. The worst thing the bad guys do is force us to doubt the good guys. (Jacinto Benavente)

In the world there are a huge number of good and honest people, do not stop believing it.