Motivational Quotes

World

The world is a living image of God.

- Campanella, Tommaso

Best Quotes about World

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

Armour, Richard

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

The world is in your hands, now use it.

Collins, Phil

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

Hemingway, Ernest

The real world is not user-friendly

Throop III, Kelvin

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

Evarts, William M.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Saunders

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

Aphorism, Zen

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

Joyce, James

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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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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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God had created the world in play.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Arendt, Hannah

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We can only change the world by changing men.

Wells, Charles

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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.

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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

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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

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

Brome, Alexander

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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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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.

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You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Bush, George

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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

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Everything done in the world is done by hope.

Luther, Martin

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

Buber, Martin

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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