Motivational Quotes

World

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

Best Quotes about World

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.

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

Everything done in the world is done by hope.

Luther, Martin

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Buber, Martin

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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Rowland, R. W. ''Tiny''

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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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God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Sexton, Anne

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You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Bush, George

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

Saunders

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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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God had created the world in play.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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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.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

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

Dunn, Stan

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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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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

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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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Joyce, James

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

Cleaver, Beaver

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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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 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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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