Motivational Quotes

World

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

Best Quotes about World

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Bush, George

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.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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

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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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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 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

22.

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

Rowland, R. W. ''Tiny''

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

Armour, Richard

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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

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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God had created the world in play.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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

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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 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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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.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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The world is a living image of God.

Campanella, Tommaso

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

Traubel, Horace

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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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 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 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

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

Dunn, Stan