Motivational Quotes

World

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

Best Quotes about World

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

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.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

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

Dunn, Stan

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 world is a living image of God.

Campanella, Tommaso

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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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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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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 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

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

Traubel, Horace

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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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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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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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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

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

Bible

29.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

Collins, Phil

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

Einstein, Albert

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You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Bush, George

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

Aphorism, Zen

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We can only change the world by changing men.

Wells, Charles

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Saunders

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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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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 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 real world is not user-friendly

Throop III, Kelvin

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

Cleaver, Beaver