Motivational Quotes

World

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

- Raleigh, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about World

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

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

The world is a living image of God.

Campanella, Tommaso

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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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.

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

Dunn, Stan

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

Cleaver, Beaver

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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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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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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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

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You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Bush, George

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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

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The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.

Mumford, Lewis

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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

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

Buber, Martin

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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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God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Sexton, Anne

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

Evarts, William M.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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 Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Arendt, Hannah

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The world is in your hands, now use it.

Collins, Phil

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Everything done in the world is done by hope.

Luther, Martin

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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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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 had created the world in play.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Aphorism, Zen

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

Brome, Alexander

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

Traubel, Horace

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

Armour, Richard

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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.