Motivational Quotes

World

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

Best Quotes about World

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

Evarts, William M.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

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.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

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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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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You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Bush, George

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

Traubel, Horace

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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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We can only change the world by changing men.

Wells, Charles

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

Cleaver, Beaver

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

Saunders

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

Brome, Alexander

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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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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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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

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Everything done in the world is done by hope.

Luther, Martin

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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The world is in your hands, now use it.

Collins, Phil

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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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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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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 Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Joyce, James

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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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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

39.

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 is a living image of God.

Campanella, Tommaso

41.

The real world is not user-friendly

Throop III, Kelvin

42.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Buber, Martin

47.

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

Armour, Richard

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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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God owns heaven but He craves the earth.