Motivational Quotes

World

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about World

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

We can only change the world by changing men.

Wells, Charles

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

Everything done in the world is done by hope.

Luther, Martin

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

The world is a living image of God.

Campanella, Tommaso

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

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

12.

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

Dunn, Stan

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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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You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Bush, George

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Einstein, Albert

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God had created the world in play.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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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

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

Rowland, R. W. ''Tiny''

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Joyce, James

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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 real world is not user-friendly

Throop III, Kelvin

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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

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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 Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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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 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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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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The world is in your hands, now use it.

Collins, Phil

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

Aphorism, Zen

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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