World quotes
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.
Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.
I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.
I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.
I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.
I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.
If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.
If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.
Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.
It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.
Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.
Let him who would move the world first move himself.
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.
Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world - the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.
Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.
The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
To See a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.
To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.
Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances.
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or the unseen world, but directly from life.
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.
We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.
We're not trying to change the world; just music.
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
When the power of love, will overcome the love of power; the world will know peace.
When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.
You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.
You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.
Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.