Motivational Quotes

World

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.

Best Quotes about World

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Hewitt, Mary Elizabeth

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

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 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

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Bible

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

10.

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

Evarts, William M.

11.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

12.

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

Traubel, Horace

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

17.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

18.

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

19.

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

Buber, Martin

20.

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

Hubbard, Kin

21.

The real world is not user-friendly

Throop III, Kelvin

22.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

Collins, Phil

23.

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

24.

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

Brome, Alexander

25.

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

Aphorism, Zen

26.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

27.

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

Rossetti, Christina

28.

Other nations have tried to check... the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.

O'Sullivan, John Louis

29.

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

Truman, Harry S

30.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

31.

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

Joyce, James

32.

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

33.

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

Johnson, Samuel

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

39.

Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record -- Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages -- you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?

Ehrenreich, Barbara

40.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

41.

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the center of man's universe is the earth?

Vizinczey, Stephen

42.

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

43.

The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.

44.

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

Rowland, R. W. ''Tiny''

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

49.

God had created the world in play.

Ramakrishna, Sri

50.

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

Saunders