Motivational Quotes

World

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

Best Quotes about World

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Cleaver, Beaver

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 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

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

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

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

Joyce, James

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

Einstein, Albert

10.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

11.

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

12.

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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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.

14.

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

Truman, Harry S

15.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

16.

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

Rossetti, Christina

17.

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Arendt, Hannah

18.

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

19.

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

Buber, Martin

20.

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

21.

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

Armour, Richard

22.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

23.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

24.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Arendt, Hannah

25.

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

26.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

27.

Tuchman, Barbara

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.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

30.

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

31.

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

Aphorism, Zen

32.

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

33.

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

Dunn, Stan

34.

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

35.

The real world is not user-friendly

Throop III, Kelvin

36.

We can only change the world by changing men.

Wells, Charles

37.

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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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.

39.

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

40.

Everything done in the world is done by hope.

Luther, Martin

41.

The world is a living image of God.

Campanella, Tommaso

42.

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

Hubbard, Kin

43.

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

Traubel, Horace

44.

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

Hewitt, Mary Elizabeth

45.

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

Burroughs, William S.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

Collins, Phil

49.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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.