Motivational Quotes

World

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

- Sexton, Anne

Best Quotes about World

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Brome, Alexander

12.

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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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Arendt, Hannah

14.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

15.

The real world is not user-friendly

Throop III, Kelvin

16.

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

17.

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

Hubbard, Kin

18.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

19.

If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.

Baudrillard, Jean

20.

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.

21.

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

Einstein, Albert

22.

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 a living image of God.

Campanella, Tommaso

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

Buber, Martin

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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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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'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

29.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

Collins, Phil

30.

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

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Everything done in the world is done by hope.

Luther, Martin

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

35.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Traubel, Horace

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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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God had created the world in play.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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 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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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 in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.

Camus, Albert

44.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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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 owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Sexton, Anne

48.

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

Cleaver, Beaver