Timeline of Quotes by Famous People -
The True Stars of Humanity

6th Century BC - 2nd Century AD

563 - 483BC Buddha - Founder Buddhism
"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace."

551 - 479BC Confucius - Founder Confucianism
"Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it."

469 - 399BC Socrates - Philosopher
"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."

428 - 347BC Plato - Philosopher
"Philosophy begins in wonder."

384 - 322BC Aristotle - Philosopher
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

004 - 30AD Jesus Christ - Founder of Christianity
"If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth."

15th - 18th Century

1452 - 1519 Da Vinci -Artist, scientist, mathematician, inventor etc!
"Our life is made by the death of others."

1473 - 1543 Copernicus - Astronomer
"Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars."

1475 - 1564 Michelangelo - Artist, poet, architect
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."

1564 - 1616 William Shakespeare - Playwright, poet and actor
"There was a star danced, and under that was I born."

1564 - 1642 Galileo - Astronomer and physicist
"Where the senses fail us, reason must step in."

1642 - 1727 Isaac Newton - Physicist and mathematician
"We build too many walls and not enough bridges."

1706 - 1790 Benjamin Franklin - Statesman, author and inventor
"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."

1732 - 1799 George Washington - 1st U.S. president (1789 - 1797)
"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

1743 - 1826 Thomas Jefferson - 3rd U.S. president (1801 - 1809)
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."

19th Century

1803 - 1882 Ralf Waldo Emerson - Philosopher, poet and lecturer
"Hitch your wagon to a star."

1809 - 1865 Abraham Lincoln - 16th U.S. president (1861 - 1865)
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

1842 - 1910 William James - Psychologist and philosopher
"Belief creates the actual fact."

1847 - 1922 Alexander Graham Bell - Scientist, inventor, and teacher
"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays..."

1847 - 1931 Thomas Edison - Inventor and entrepreneur
"Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning."

1858 - 1919 Theodore Roosevelt -26th U.S. President, author and explorer
"I am part of everything that I have read."

1869 - 1948 Mahatma Gandhi - Leader of Indian independence
"A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes."

1874 - 1965 Winston Churchill - Prime Minister of Great Britain
"If you are going through hell, keep going."

1875 - 1961 Carl Gustav Jung - Psychologist and psychiatrist
"To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful."

1879 - 1955 Albert Einstein - Theoretical physicist
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."

1880 - 1968 Helen Keller - Author, lecturer, and activist
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens;..."

1882 - 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt - 32nd U.S. president 1933 - 1945
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

1884 - 1962 Eleanor Roosevelt - Diplomat, author, and U.S. 1st Lady
"I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday."

20th Century

1910 - 1997 Mother Teresa - Roman Catholic nun
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

1918 - 2013 Nelson Mandela - 1st black president of South Africa
"To be father of a nation is a great honour, but to be the father of a family..."

1929 - 1968 Martin Luther King Jr - Clergyman / civil rights activist
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

1935 - present 14th Dalai Lama - Spiritual leader
"In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision."

1954 - /----/ Oprah Winfrey - Billionaire and former talk show host
"I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become."