Motivational Quotes

World

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

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about World

If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Truman, Harry S

To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

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

Cleaver, Beaver

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Bush, George

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

13.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

14.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

Collins, Phil

15.

We can only change the world by changing men.

Wells, Charles

16.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

17.

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

18.

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

Rowland, R. W. ''Tiny''

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Arendt, Hannah

26.

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

Burroughs, William S.

27.

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

Evarts, William M.

28.

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

Einstein, Albert

29.

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

Joyce, James

30.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

31.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Sexton, Anne

36.

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

Hewitt, Mary Elizabeth

37.

The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.

Villiers, George

38.

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

Brome, Alexander

39.

We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us. One does not rape a sister.

Daly, Mary

40.

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

Rossetti, Christina

41.

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

42.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

43.

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

Buber, Martin

44.

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

Traubel, Horace

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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