Motivational Quotes

World

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

Best Quotes about World

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 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

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

Truman, Harry S

The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.

Evarts, William M.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Hemingway, Ernest

God had created the world in play.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

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

10.

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

Hewitt, Mary Elizabeth

11.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

12.

We can only change the world by changing men.

Wells, Charles

13.

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

14.

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

Hubbard, Kin

15.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

16.

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

Armour, Richard

17.

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Bush, George

18.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

19.

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

20.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Arendt, Hannah

21.

The real world is not user-friendly

Throop III, Kelvin

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I WANT TO SEE THE MANAGER.

Burroughs, William S.

25.

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

26.

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

Dunn, Stan

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Villiers, George

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Johnson, Samuel

34.

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

35.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

36.

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

Brome, Alexander

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

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

Fields, W. C.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.

Rossetti, Christina

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Cleaver, Beaver

48.

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

49.

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

Reagan, Ronald

50.

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