Motivational Quotes

World

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

- Sexton, Anne

Best Quotes about World

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Joyce, James

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

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Buber, Martin

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Truman, Harry S

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 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

10.

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Bush, George

11.

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

Brome, Alexander

12.

The world is a living image of God.

Campanella, Tommaso

13.

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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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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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 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

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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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

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

Traubel, Horace

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

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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Saunders

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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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Everything done in the world is done by hope.

Luther, Martin

31.

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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We can only change the world by changing men.

Wells, Charles

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

34.

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

Rowland, R. W. ''Tiny''

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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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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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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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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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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

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

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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

46.

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

Bible

49.

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

Hubbard, Kin