Motivational Quotes

World

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

- Villiers, George

Best Quotes about World

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

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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.

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

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

Rowland, R. W. ''Tiny''

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

13.

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

Rossetti, Christina

14.

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

15.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

16.

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

18.

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

Burroughs, William S.

19.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

20.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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 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.

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

Brome, Alexander

27.

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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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 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 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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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Aphorism, Zen

34.

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

Dunn, Stan

35.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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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God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Sexton, Anne

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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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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

42.

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

43.

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

Joyce, James

44.

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

45.

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

46.

We can only change the world by changing men.

Wells, Charles

47.

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

48.

God had created the world in play.

Ramakrishna, Sri

49.

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

50.

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

Reagan, Ronald