Motivational Quotes

World

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

- Elton, Ben

Best Quotes about World

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

Reagan, Ronald

Next to reasoning, the greatest handicap to the optimum development of Man lies in the fact that this planet is just barely habitable. Its minimum temperatures are too low, and its maximum temperatures too high. Its day is not long enough, and its night is too long. The disposition of its water and earth is distinctly unfortunate (the existence of the Mediterranean Sea in the place where we find it is perhaps the unhappiest accident in the whole firmament). These factors encourage depression, fear, war, and lack of vitality. They describe a planet, which is by no means perfectly devised for the nurturing or for the perpetuation of a higher intelligence.

Thurber, James

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Bush, George

We must build a new world, a far better world -- one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

Truman, Harry S

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

Buber, Martin

The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.

Camus, Albert

You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

Seattle, Chief

Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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I tell you one thing -- if you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.

Devi, Sri Sarada

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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Arendt, Hannah

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A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values. Our world may have begun that way, but today it is caricature. Our world is a world of things. What we dread most, in the face of the impending debacle, is that we shall be obliged to give up our gewgaws, our gadgets, all the little comforts that have made us so uncomfortable. We are not peaceful souls; we are smug, timid, queasy and quaky.

Miller, Henry

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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Arendt, Hannah

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He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When you deplore the conditions in the world, ask yourself,am I part of the problem or part of the solution?

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The world is in your hands, now use it.

Collins, Phil

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We can only change the world by changing men.

Wells, Charles

18.

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.

Traubel, Horace

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Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.

Gladstone, William E.

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The world is a living image of God.

Campanella, Tommaso

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Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

Hardy, Thomas

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He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.

Villiers, George

24.

The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.

Mumford, Lewis

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There'll be spring every year without you. England still will be here without you.
There'll be fruit on the tree.
And a shore by the sea.
There'll be crumpets and tea without you.

Art and music will thrive without you. Somehow Keats will survive without you.
And there still will be rain on that plain down in Spain,
even that will remain without you.
I can do without you.

You, dear friend, who taught so well,
You can go to Hartford, Hereford and Hampshire.

They can still rule with land without you.
Windsor Castle will stand without you.
And without much ado we can all muddle through without you.

Loewe, Frederick

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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

Elton, Ben

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Everything done in the world is done by hope.

Luther, Martin

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To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.

Einstein, Albert

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The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better -- it is just turning around as usual.

Dunne, Finley Peter

31.

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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If this were a logical world, men would ride side saddle.

Brown, Rita Mae

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God had created the world in play.

Ramakrishna, Sri

34.

The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.

Evarts, William M.

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The sword is the axis of the world, and grandeur is indivisible.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

Armour, Richard

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The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact. He calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon. His conversation clings to the weather and the news, yet he allows himself to be surprised into thought, and the unlocking of his learning and philosophy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.

Aphorism, Zen

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If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

Pythagoras

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Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States.

Rowland, R. W. ''Tiny''

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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

42.

I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.

Brome, Alexander

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The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

Joyce, James

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I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.

Dylan, Bob

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People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in languages we once classified as exotic but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.

Tuchman, Barbara

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God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Sexton, Anne

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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I WANT TO SEE THE MANAGER.

Burroughs, William S.

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That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

Johnson, Samuel