Don't let history write itself for you.

Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements."

— Jonathan Frakes

“The best thing we can do with the failures of the past is to let them be history.”

— Gary Chapman

If you can't change history, then let history change you.

— Arnold Swazy

You cannot embrace your destiny if you do not let go of your history.

— T. D. Jakes

“Why would you keep quiet and allow history to write itself when there is something you can do to rewrite history.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

“Hindsight’s a wonderful thing,” Klara said. “If we all had it there would be no history to write about.”

— Kate Atkinson

Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.

— Kate Atkinson

What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to…

— Jim Bishop

History is one of the only fields where contributions by amateurs are taken seriously, providing you follow the rules and document your sources. In…

— George Dyson

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

— Otto von Bismarck

The people around you are you. They share your history. They can even write it with you. And when you lose one, there's no…

— Danny Wallace

“History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble…

— Alastair Reynolds

“Isn't better to excel in your work than wasting time on fruitless things ... after all to become the history, you have to write it.”

— Dr. Zeeshan Ahmed

So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us this is…

— Jamaica Kincaid

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

— Otto von Bismarck