Motivational Quotes

World

The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about World

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

The real world is not user-friendly

Throop III, Kelvin

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Cleaver, Beaver

God had created the world in play.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Saunders

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

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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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God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Sexton, Anne

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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

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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

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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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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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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I have, indeed, even omitted facts, which, on account of their singularity, must in the eyes of some have appeared to border on the marvelous. But in the forests of South America such extraordinary realities are to be found, that there is assuredly no need to have recourse to fiction or the least exaggeration.

Stedman, Captain J. G.

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The world is in your hands, now use it.

Collins, Phil

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

Traubel, Horace

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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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Everything done in the world is done by hope.

Luther, Martin

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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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We can only change the world by changing men.

Wells, Charles

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

Buber, Martin

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I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.

Ferber, Edna

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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

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The world is a fine place worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Armour, Richard

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

Aphorism, Zen

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

41.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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 world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Bush, George

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

Dunn, Stan

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

Reagan, Ronald