Motivational Quotes

World

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.

Best Quotes about World

We can only change the world by changing men.

Wells, Charles

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Sexton, Anne

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

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

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

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.

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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The real world is not user-friendly

Throop III, Kelvin

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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 in your hands, now use it.

Collins, Phil

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

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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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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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

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

Villiers, George

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Everything done in the world is done by hope.

Luther, Martin

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

Rowland, R. W. ''Tiny''

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Traubel, Horace

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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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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Arendt, Hannah

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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 earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Joyce, James

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Hewitt, Mary Elizabeth

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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

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

Aphorism, Zen

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

Dunn, Stan