World

68 quotes.

• The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.

  Attributed to Augustine of Hippo

• We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

  Native American proverb

• The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

  Thomas Paine

• After the verb "to love," "to help" is the most beautiful verb in the world.

  Anonymous

• All the world's a cage.

  Heanne Philips

• All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

  Sean O'Casey

• An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

  W. Somerset Maugham

• And again and again fell the world like the ebb of a dying sea.

  Anonymous

• Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

  John Dewey

• Attitude is the way you mentally look at the world around you. It is how you view your environment and your future. It is the focus you develop toward life itself.

  Elwood N. Chapman

• Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

  Marcus Valerius Martial

• Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.

  Charles Eliot

• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

  Mark Twain

• Expecting the world to be fair to you because you are a good person is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.

  Unknown

• Failure is not the worst thing in the world. The very worst thing not to try.

  Anonymous

• Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. Ayou can do itwhen things are tough.

  Richard M. DeVos

• For an instant, love can transform the world.

  Anonymous

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

  Anonymous

• For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.

  Clarence E. Hodges

• George was a great dunce, but no matter for that: all men do not thrive in the world according to their learning.

  Henry Fielding

• Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

  Walter Kerr

• How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our "pocket of excellence"

  Barbara J. Alexander

• I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures, those who make it or those who don't. I divide the world into learners and non-learners.

  Benjamin Barber

• I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

  Goethe

• If you wish to be a sucess in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

  Napoleon

• In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

  Franz Kafka

• It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

• It's still the same old story, A fight for love and glory, A case of Do or Die! The world will always welcome lovers, As time goes by.

  Anonymous

• Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

  Michael Johnson, 200 and 400 meter world record holder

• Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

  Anonymous

• Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise.

  Winston Churchill

• Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

  Aldous Huxley

• 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.

  Dale Carnegie

• Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

  Louis D. Brandeis

• Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement -and we will make the goal.

  Jerome P. Fleishman

• My way of joking is to tell the truth; it's the funniest joke in the world.

  Anonymous

• Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

  Henry Fielding

• One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.

  Dale Carnegie

• Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

  Anonymous

• Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.

  Bertrand Russell

• Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.

  Anna Lee

• Self-confidence gives you the freedom to make mistakes and cope with failure without feeling that your world has come to an end or that you are a worthless person.

  Haydn Sargent

• The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

  Nietzsche

• The Largest Room in the World, is the Room for Improvement.

  Unknown

• The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.

  Witter Bynner

• The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

  Colin Wilson

• The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

  George Bernard Shaw

• The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

  George Bernard Shaw

• The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

  Herbert Spencer

• The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them.

  James Oliver

• The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

  Robert Frost

• The world is hollow for I have touched the sky.

  Anonymous

• There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.

  Anonymous

• Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.

  Luther Burbank

• This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.

  T. S. Eliot

• To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

  E. E. Cummings

• To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.

  Sydney Smith

• To love is the great Amulet that makes this world a garden.

  Anonymous

• To the world you may be just one person. To the person you may be the world.

  Anonymous

• Today the nations of the world may be divided into two classes - the nations in which the government fears the people, and the nations in which the people fear the government.

  Amos R. E. Pinochet

• True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.

  Pliny the Elder (23-79 A.D.)

• We are each of us in this world an angel with only one wing. In order to fly we must embrace each other.

  Cassandra Reed

• We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.

  Mark Twain

• We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last.

  John F. Kennedy

• We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

  Bill Vaugham

• What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

  Ursula K. LeGuin

• When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

  Anatole Broyard

• When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

  Jonathan Swift

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