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200 Influential Personalities of all time
It is not easy for someone to decide if someone else is a remarkable or an exceptional individual or not. It is not easy to count up the significant, remarkable or exceptional people throughout the history of mankind. Someone may be missing… Someone may slip our mind… Someone may be added in the list later on…. Let’s face it…. Whether a personality is important or exceptional or not is a matter of opinion. Someone who is an exceptional, a remarkable person for me, may mean nothing for you… However, there are personalities that, whether you like it or not, are familiar to you… You know these people, even though you may have not met them and you that you are not going to meet the. They are usually people of the past that even future generations will keep in their memory. They are great people who have left their mark on the world making their names memorable. They are personalities who stood out, reversed the course of life, making either a positive impact or a negative one, people who tried to guide others leading them on to innovative paths.
Many previous studies tried to classify such personalities who have had a huge impact on people’s lives and affected their memories greatly. These personalities were people who were born in order to change the course of mankind, rebels full of hope for the future, researchers who worked hard in order to contribute greatly to the evolution of mankind. Personalities who were leaders, affected other peoples’ lives and they will be remembered over time. They were people who have shared their knowledge with us for a better future. Listed below are the top 200 personalities in the history of mankind, who have made either a positive or a negative impact on peoples’ lives; these people are worth being listed in this ranking as they made us realize what is right or wrong, what is good or bad. It’s a random ranking, without any rating scales.
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| NAME | DATE OF BIRTH | DATE OF DEATH | MOTTO | OCCUPATION | ||||
| John Locke | 1632 | 1704 | “All mankind… being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.” | philosopher | ||||
| Johannes Calvin | 1509 | 1564 | “However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.” | theologian, pastor and reformer | ||||
| Grover Cleveland | 1837 | 1908 | “A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.” | president | ||||
| Otto Von Bismarck | 1815 | 1898 | “Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.” | statesman | ||||
| Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | “Three things have remained outside paradies: stars, flowers and children.” | Poet | ||||
| Jeanne d’ Arc | 1412 | 1431 | “One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.” | Heroine | ||||
| Harry S. Truman | 1884 | 1972 | “Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.” | president | ||||
| Nikola Tesla | 1856 | 1943 | “Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.” | Inventor, engineer, physicist, futurist | ||||
| George Washington | 1732 | 1799 | It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. | president | ||||
| Abraham Lincoln | 1809 | 1865 | Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. | president | ||||
| Alexander the Great | 356v.Chr | 322v.Chr | I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. | king | ||||
| Aristoteles | 384v.Chr | 322v.Chr | “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” | Philosopher, scientist | ||||
| Adolf Hitler | 1889 | 1945 | The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category. | Politician, leader | ||||
| Plato | / | / | Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. | Philosopher, founder | ||||
| Mohammad Ali | 573 | 632 | He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. | Boxer, activist | ||||
| William Shakespeare | 1564 | 1616 | We know what we are, but know not what we may be. | poet, playwright, actor | ||||
| Napoleon Bonaparte | 1769 | 1821 | Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. | statesman and military leader | ||||
| Jesus | 4BC | 31 c. AD | And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time. | leader | ||||
| Socrates | 470 BC | 399 BC | The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. | philosopher | ||||
| Leonardo Da Vinci | 1452 | 1519 | Tears come from the heart and not from the brain. | artist | ||||
| Confucius | 551 BC | 479 BC | It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. | philosopher | ||||
| Pythagoras | 582 BC | 497 BC | Silence is better than unmeaning words. | mathematician | ||||
| Harry S. Truman | 1884 | 1972 | It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. | president | ||||
| Rene Descartes | 1596 | 1650 | It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. | mathematician | ||||
| Pole Johannes | / | / | Once you see results, it becomes an addiction. | |||||
| Thomas von Aquin | 1225 | 1274 | There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. | theologian | ||||
| Ali Ibn Abi Talib | 600 | 661 | A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country. | Clergyman | ||||
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 1749 | 1832 | The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. | poet | ||||
| Philipp II. (Spain) | 1527 | 1598 | “God, who has given me so many Kingdoms to govern, has not given me a son fit to govern them.” | King | ||||
| Michelangelo | 1475 | 1564 | The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. | artist | ||||
| Ludwig XVI. (France) | 1754 | 1793 | I have no intention of sharing my authority. | king | ||||
| Richard Nixon | 1913 | 1994 | If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories. | president | ||||
| Francis Bacon | 1561 | 1626 | In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. | philosopher | ||||
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 1712 | 1778 | The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. | philopopher | ||||
| Cicero | 106v.Chr | 43v.Chr | The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. | statesman | ||||
| Charles II | 1630 | 1685 | I always admired virtue – but I could never imitate it. | royalty | ||||
| Oscar Wilde | 1854 | 1900 | Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. | dramatist | ||||
| Robert Edward Lee | 1807 | 1870 | Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. | soldier | ||||
| Wladimir Lenin | 1870 | 1924 | A lie told often enough becomes the truth. | leader | ||||
| Nikolaus Copernikus | 1473 | 1543 | To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. | scientist | ||||
| Vincent Van Gogh | 1853 | 1890 | I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. | artist | ||||
| Augustinus von Hippo | 354 | 430 | The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. | saint | ||||
| John F. Kennedy | 1917 | 1963 | Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. | president | ||||
| Elvis Presley | 1935 | 1977 | I’m not trying to be sexy. It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around. | musician | ||||
| Andrew Jackson | 1767 | 1845 | Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there. | president | ||||
| Voltaire | 1694 | 1778 | God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. | writer | ||||
| Peter Tschaikowski | 1840 | 1893 | Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music. | composer | ||||
| Richard Wagner | 1813 | 1883 | I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing. | composer | ||||
| John Adams | 1735 | 1826 | I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. | president | ||||
| James Cook | 1728 | 1779 | Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again. | explorer | ||||
| Immanuel Kant | 1724 | 1804 | Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. | philosopher | ||||
| Georg III. (Great Britain-Irland) | 1738 | 1820 | Everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel. | president | ||||
| Adam Smith | 1723 | 1790 | Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. | economist | ||||
| Joseph Smith Jr. | 1805 | 1844 | An angel of God never has wings. | clergyman | ||||
| Edgar Allan Poe | 1809 | 1849 | All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. | poet | ||||
| Mark Twain | 1835 | 1910 | The secret of getting ahead is getting started. | author | ||||
| Siddhartha Gautama | 563v.Chr | 483v.Chr | “However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?” | teacher | ||||
| James Madison | 1751 | 1836 | Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. | president | ||||
| Oliver Cromwell | 1599 | 1658 | He who stops being better stops being good. | soldier | ||||
| Galileo Galilei | 1564 | 1642 | We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves. | scientist | ||||
| Johann Sebastian Bach | 1685 | 1750 | The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. | composer | ||||
| Woodrow Wilson | 1856 | 1924 | The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. | president | ||||
| Mahatma Gandhi | 1869 | 1948 | A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. | leader | ||||
| Alexander Hamilton | 1757 | 1804 | I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man. | politician | ||||
| Sigmund Freud | 1856 | 1939 | Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. | psychologist | ||||
| Franklin Roosevelt | 1882 | 1945 | There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. | president | ||||
| Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844 | 1900 | It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. | philosopher | ||||
| Jakob I. (England) | 1566 | 1625 | The sour quality is set opposite to the bitter and the sweet, and is a good temper to all, a refreshing and cooling when the bitter and the sweet qualities are too much elevated or too preponderant. | theologian | ||||
| Thomas Alva Edison | 1847 | 1931 | I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. | inventor | ||||
| Dschingis Khan | 1155 | 1227 | The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love him shrouded and in tears. And to gather to your bosom his wives and daughters. | Band | ||||
| Winston Churchill | 1874 | 1965 | Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. | Statesman | ||||
| George W. Bush | 1946 | Alive | Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time. | president | ||||
| Benjamin Franklin | 1706 | 1790 | An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. | politician | ||||
| Charles Dickens | 1812 | 1870 | There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. | novelist | ||||
| Ronald Reagan | 1911 | 2004 | Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means. | president | ||||
| Carl von Linne | 1707 | 1778 | If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too. | botanist, physician and zoologist | ||||
| Augustus | 63v.Chr. | 14n.Chr. | I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. | royalty | ||||
| Leonardo da Vinci | 1452 | 1519 | Tears come from the heart and not from the brain. | artist | ||||
| Ulysses S. Grant | 1822 | 1885 | My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent. | president | ||||
| Ludwig van Beethoven | 1770 | 1827 | Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. | composer | ||||
| Ludwig XIV. (France) | 1638 | 1715 | First feelings are always the most natural. | royalty | ||||
| Platon | 428v.Chr | 348v.Chr | Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. | philosopher | ||||
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 1756 | 1791 | I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings. | musician | ||||
| Theodore Roosevelt | 1858 | 1919 | Believe you can and you’re halfway there. | president | ||||
| Isaac Newton | 1642 | 1727 | If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. | mathematician | ||||
| Christoph Columbus | 1451 | 1506 | Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. | explorer | ||||
| Albert Einstein | 1879 | 1955 | Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. | physicist | ||||
| Josef Stalin | 1878 | 1953 | Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem. | leader | ||||
| Martin Luther | 1483 | 1546 | Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. | leader | ||||
| Queen Victoria | 1819 | 1901 | Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. | royalty | ||||
| Gaius Iulius Caser | 100v.Chr | 44v.Chr | Experience is the teacher of all things. | leader | ||||
| Karl Marx | 1818 | 1883 | The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. | philosopher | ||||
| Queen Elisabeth I. | 1533 | 1603 | A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing. | royalty | ||||
| Charles Darwin | 1809 | 1882 | A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. | scientist | ||||
| Heinrich VIII. (England) | 1491 | 1547 | “Of all losses, time is the most irrecuperable for it can never be redeemed.” | royalty | ||||
| Thomas Jefferson | 1743 | 1826 | Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. | president | ||||
| Buddha | 563 BC | 483 BC | No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. | leader | ||||
| Homer | / | / | A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother. | poet | ||||
| Werner Heisenberg | 1901 | 1976 | “Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.” | Physicist | ||||
| Albrecht Durer | 1471 | 1528 | If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle. | Artist | ||||
| Voltaire | 1694 | 1778 | God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. | writer | ||||
| Marie Curie | 1867 | 1934 | Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. | scientist | ||||
| James Watt | 1736 | 1819 | “An iron railroad would be a cheaper thing than a road of the common construction.” Here lay in a few words the idea from which our railway system has sprung.” | inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist | ||||
| Johannes Gutenberg | 1400 | 1468 | “It is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible streams…Through it, God will spread His Word. A spring of truth shall flow from it: like a new star it shall scatter the darkness of ignorance, and cause a light heretofore unknown to shine amongst men” | blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher | ||||
| Max Planck | 1858 | 1947 | Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness. | scientist | ||||
| Archimedes | 287 BC | 212 BC | Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. | Mathematician | ||||
| Orville Wright | 1871 | 1948 | The airplane stays up because it doesn’t have the time to fall. | Inventor | ||||
| Michael Faraday | 1791 | 1867 | “Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.” | scientist | ||||
| Georges Braque | 1882 | 1963 | Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas. | artist | ||||
| Franz von Assisi | 1182 | 1226 | Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. | saint | ||||
| Alexander Graham Bell | 1847 | 1922 | Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. | inventor | ||||
| Julius Caesar | 100BC | 44 BC | No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected | leader | ||||
| Lorenzo de’ Medici | 1492 | 1519 | “What I have dreamed in an hour is worth more than what you have done in four.” | statesman | ||||
| Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen | 1845 | 1923 | Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. | engineer and physicist | ||||
| Robert Koch | 1843 | 1910 | The pure culture is the foundation for all research on infectious disease. | physician and microbiologist | ||||
| Michail Gorbatschow | 1931 | alive | The world will not accept dictatorship or domination. | politician | ||||
| Demokritos | 460 BC | 370 BC | Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. | philosopher | ||||
| Gagarin | 1934 | 1968 | I could have gone on flying through space forever. | Astronaut | ||||
| Kemal Atatürk | 1881 | 1938 | My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. | leader | ||||
| Pablo Picasso | 1881 | 1973 | The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. | artist | ||||
| Mao Zedong | 1893 | 1976 | Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. | leader | ||||
| Cleopatra | 68 BC | 30 BC | All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise | royalty | ||||
| Niels Bohr | 1885 | 1962 | Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true. | physicist | ||||
| Alexander Fleming | 1881 | 1955 | One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. | scientist | ||||
| Ludwig Boltzmann | 1844 | 1906 | Bring forth what is true; Write it so it it’s clear. Defend it to your last breath. | Physicist, philosopher | ||||
| Hippokrates | 460 BC | 357 BC | Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. | scientist | ||||
| Hammurabi | 1810 BC | 1750 BC | The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.” | king | ||||
| Johannes Kepler | 1571 | 1630 | Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife. | scientist | ||||
| Guglielmo Marconi | 1874 | 1937 | Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time. | scientist | ||||
| Che Guevara | 1928 | 1967 | The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. | revolutionary | ||||
| Laozi | / | / | The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step | philosopher | ||||
| Salvador Dali | 1904 | 1989 | The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. | artist | ||||
| Siegmund Freud | 1856 | 1939 | Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. | psychologist | ||||
| Giuseppe Garibaldi | 1807 | 1882 | We shall meet again before long to march to new triumphs. | soldier | ||||
| Gottlieb Daimler | 1834 | 1900 | “ The best or nothing at all. ” | engineer,
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| Steve Jobs | 1955 | 2011 | Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people. | entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, designer | ||||
| Bill Gates | 1955 | / | Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose. | businessman | ||||
| Alfred Nobel | 1833 | 1986 | Contentment is the only real wealth. | scientist | ||||
| Manfred von Ardenne | 1907 | 1997 | “Success flourishes only in perseverance — ceaseless, restless perseverance.” | physicist | ||||
| Rembrandt | 1606 | 1669 | Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know. | painter | ||||
| Henry Ford | 1863 | 1947 | Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. | businessman | ||||
| Louis Pasteur | 1822 | 1895 | Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. | scientist | ||||
| Gerhard Richter | 1932 | / | Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy. | artist | ||||
| Niccolò Machiavelli | 1469 | 1527 | It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. | writer | ||||
| Neil Armstrong | 1930 | 2012 | That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. | astronaut | ||||
| Nelson Mandela | 1918 | 2013 | Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. | statesman | ||||
| Carl Jung | 1875 | 1961 | Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. | psychologist | ||||
| Samuel Jackson | 1948 | / | If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it. | actor | ||||
| Mikhail Gorbachev | 1931 | / | The world will not accept dictatorship or domination. | statesman | ||||
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| Simon Bolivar | 1783 | 1830 | Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement | revolutionary | ||||
| Akbar | 1542 | 1605 | A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him. | royalty | ||||
| Konrad Adenauer | 1876 | 1967 | History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. | statesman | ||||
| Jawaharlal Nehru | 1889 | 1964 | What we really are matters more than what other people think of us. | leader | ||||
| Charlemagne | 742 | 814 | To have another language is to possess a second soul. | royalty | ||||
| Sir Walter Raleigh | 1552 | 1618 | Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. | explorer | ||||
| Guru Nanak | 1469 | 1539 | From its brilliancy everything is illuminated. | philosopher | ||||
| Leo Tolstoy | 1828 | 1910 | The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. | novelist | ||||
| Ataturk | 1881 | 1938 | Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women. | leader | ||||
| Margaret Thatcher | 1925 | 2013 | If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. | leader | ||||
| Boris Yeltsin | 1931 | 2007 | You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can’t sit on it for long. | statesman | ||||
| Indira Gandhi | 1917 | 1984 | Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave. | statesman | ||||
| William Tyndale | 1494 | 1536 | No more doth it hurt to say that the body and blood are not in the sacrament. | clergyman | ||||
| Tim Berners Lee | 1955 | Alive | We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges. | inventor | ||||
| Rosa Parks | 1913 | 2005 | Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. | activist | ||||
| Dalai Lama | 1938 | Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. | leader | |||||
| Malcolm X | 1925 | 1965 | Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. | activist | ||||
| Charles de Gaulle | 1890 | 1970 | The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. | leader | ||||
| Mother Teresa | 1910 | 1997 | Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. | saint | ||||
| Bill Gates | 1955 | Alive | Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose. | businessman | ||||
| Ernest Hemingway | 1899 | 1961 | The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. | novelist | ||||
| John Lennon | 1940 | 1980 | Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow. | musician | ||||
| John M Keynes | 1883 | 1946 | Ideas shape the course of history. | economist | ||||
| Susan B. Anthony | 1820 | 1906 | Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less. | activist | ||||
| George Orwell | 1903 | 1950 | War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. | author | ||||
| Thomas Edison | 1847 | 1931 | Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. | inventor | ||||
| Kofi Annan | 1938 | Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. | statesman | |||||
| William Wilberforce | 1759 | 1833 | Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer. | politician | ||||
| Evia Peron | 1919 | 1952 | Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun. | statesman | ||||
| Princess Diana | 1961 | 1997 | Family is the most important thing in the world. | royalty | ||||
| Helen Keller | 1880 | 1968 | Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. | author | ||||
| Florence Nightingale | 1820 | 1910 | How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. | activist | ||||
| Harriet Tubman | 1822 | 1913 | Never wound a snake; kill it. | activist | ||||
| Anne Frank | 1929 | 1945 | Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. | writer | ||||
| Sri Chinmoy | 1931 | 2007 | Smile, smile, smile at your mind as often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce your mind’s tearing tension. | author | ||||
| Desmond Tutu | 1931 | You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them. | author | |||||
| Jesse Owens | 1913 | 1980 | One chance is all you need. | athlete | ||||
| Rosa Parks | 1913 | 2005 | Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. | activist | ||||
| Amelia Earhart | 1897 | 1939 | The most effective way to do it, is to do it. | author | ||||
| Barack Obama | 1961 | Still alive | Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference. | politician | ||||
| Marco Polo | 1254 | 1324 | I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed | merchant | ||||
| Vasco da Gama | 1469 | 1524 | I am not afraid of the darkness. Real death is preferable to a life without living. | explorer | ||||
| Ferdinand Magellan | 1480 | 1521 | Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. | explorer | ||||
| Marie Antoinette | 1755 | 1793 | There is nothing new except what has been forgotten. | royalty | ||||
| Coco Chanel | 1883 | 1971 | A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. | designer | ||||
| Marlene Dietrich | 1901 | 1992 | Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. | actress | ||||
| Katharine Hepburn | 1907 | 2003 | If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. | actress | ||||
| Marilyn Monroe | 1926 | 1962 | I restore myself when I’m alone. | actress | ||||
| Bob Marley | 1945 | 1981 | One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. | musician | ||||
| Michael Jackson | 1958 | 2009 | My mother’s wonderful. To me she’s perfection. | musician | ||||
| Bruce Lee | 1940 | 1973 | Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. | actor | ||||
| Tupac | 1971 | 1996 | I don’t have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated. | musician | ||||
| Michael Jordan | 1963 | / | Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. | athlete | ||||
| Maya Angelou | 1928 | 2014 | If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love. | poet |
Remarkable personalities, strong personalities… Do you really know yourself? Do you know who you are and what are your personality traits? Can you change WHAT you are? Can you change WHO you are? So, learn yourself better and use this knowledge in order to have a better and more positive and advantageous life. This information is the key to understanding behaviors and, eventually, to the importance of personality formation and development.
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