Motivational Quotes

World

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

Best Quotes about World

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

Aphorism, Zen

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

The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.

Walpole, Horace

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

You're the best Mom in the whole, wide world!

Cleaver, Beaver

The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit -- not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic. Its throes will heave our exuviate from their graves.

Thoreau, Henry David

We can only change the world by changing men.

Wells, Charles

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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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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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.

Rossetti, Christina

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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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I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.

Einstein, Albert

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The world is a living image of God.

Campanella, Tommaso

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It doesn't matter much what happens in this world, there's going to be somebody who'll tell you that he knew it would.

17.

And that's the world in a nutshell, which is an appropriate receptacle.

Dunn, Stan

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

Brome, Alexander

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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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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 founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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The earth is the Lord s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it. [Psalms 24:1]

Bible

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

Reagan, Ronald

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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Arendt, Hannah

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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 world has narrowed to a neighborhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The world gels better every day -- then worse again in the evening.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Arendt, Hannah

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The world does owe you a living, but it doesn't home deliver.

Saunders

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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 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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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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To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night -- brothers who see now they are truly brothers.

Macleish, Archibald

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God had created the world in play.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

Fields, W. C.

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The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.

Kennedy, John F.

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Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to rest.

Hewitt, Mary Elizabeth

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Like a ten-ton cake, the world is more than anyone can eat at one sitting. Select a piece of it, then enjoy the party.

Silver, Samuel M

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Everything done in the world is done by hope.

Luther, Martin

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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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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 world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

Wordsworth, William

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God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Sexton, Anne

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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

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The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.