Motivational Quotes

World

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

Best Quotes about World

God had created the world in play.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

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.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Armour, Richard

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

13.

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

14.

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

Aphorism, Zen

15.

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

Saunders

16.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

17.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

18.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

19.

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

20.

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

Johnson, Samuel

21.

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

Buber, Martin

22.

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

Cleaver, Beaver

23.

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

Brome, Alexander

24.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

Collins, Phil

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Everything done in the world is done by hope.

Luther, Martin

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Fields, W. C.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Arendt, Hannah

37.

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

Joyce, James

38.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

39.

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Bush, George

40.

The world is a living image of God.

Campanella, Tommaso

41.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

47.

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

48.

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

Einstein, Albert

49.

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

Hewitt, Mary Elizabeth