Motivational Quotes

World

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

- Joyce, James

Best Quotes about World

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

Villiers, George

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

We can only change the world by changing men.

Wells, Charles

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 world is in your hands, now use it.

Collins, Phil

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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God had created the world in play.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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The earth is the Lord s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it. [Psalms 24:1]

Bible

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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 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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You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Bush, George

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

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Everything done in the world is done by hope.

Luther, Martin

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

Saunders

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Cleaver, Beaver

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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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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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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God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Sexton, Anne

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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.

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The real world is not user-friendly

Throop III, Kelvin

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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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The world is a living image of God.