World - Quotes

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding. - Douglas MacArthur

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. - Muhammad Ali

All men come into this world alone and leave it alone. - Thomas De Quincey

All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts. - William Shakespeare

As one person I cannot change the world, but I can change the world of one person. - Paul Shane Spear

At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. And what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey. - Lemony Snicket.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. - James Joyce

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond winning. - Lao Tzu

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

Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe the world to be a beautiful place. - Kurt Vonnegut 

Don't worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive, - Howard Thurman

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. - Norman Vincent Peale

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly. - James Russell Lowell

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. - Dennis Waitley

Give the world the best you have, and the best will come to you. - Madeline Bridge

Half the world knows not how the other half lives. - George Herbert

Help the world to become better. Don’t leave the world just the same as you have found it – make it a little better, make it a little more beautiful. - Osho

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid. - Frederick Buechner

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. - Anne Frank

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing I can do, or any kindness that I can show any human being, let me do it now and not defer it. For I shall not pass this way again. - Stephen Grellet 

I soon found out you can’t change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it. - Henry Miller

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. - Lucy Larcom

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. -  E.B. White

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. - Frances Hodgson Burnett

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. - Michael Jackson

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. - J. Krishnamurti

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion. - Albert Camus

It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this. - Unknown

It takes a great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. - Oscar Wilde

It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening. - Sue Monk Kidd

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. - David Attenborough

It takes all kinds to make a world go round. - T. Shelton

Most of us have a pretty clear idea of the world we want. What we lack is an understanding of how to go about getting it. - Hugh Gibson

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first. - Ursula K. le Guin

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. - Ruth Benedict

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles. - Charlie Chaplin

Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Plenty of food, but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others. Huge advances in medicine while mothers die every day in childbirth, and children die every day from drinking dirty water. Billions spent on weapons to kill people instead of keeping them safe. - Ban Ki-moon

Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good. - Saadi

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be. - E. Lockhart

The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness could we but see – and to see we have only to look. - Giovanni Giocondo

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. - Albert Einstein

The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does. - Hugh MacLeod

The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head. - Robert M. Pirsig

The real world is ‘as is.’ Our internal paradigm creates the reality we see in it. It is important to keep in mind that our reality is not necessary the reality. - Unknown

The reality of the world changes with the lenses you wear on your eyes. If they are dark, the world turns dark; and if they are red, the world turns red. If is only by putting away the lens that you can see the world as it really is.  - Unknown

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so. - Mark Twain

The visible world is the invisible organization of energy. - Physicist Heinz Pagels

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. - Albert Einstein

The world belongs to the energetic. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool. - William McFee

The world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them. - Cormac McCarthy

The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows. - Unknown

The world has so many wrongs; it is inconceivable that we can ever right all of them. Concentrate on what you can do for the betterment of yourself, your family and society at large and you will have done your part.  - Unknown

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going. - Napoleon Hill

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. - Saint Augustine

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one’s self to be acquainted with it. - Lord Chesterfield

The World is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the World will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The World is what you are. - Thomas Dreier

The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it in turn will look sourly at you; laugh at it, and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion. - William Thackeray

The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right. - Benjamin Disraeli

The world is as beautiful as you perceive it to be. - Unknown

The world is as it is, irrespective of what we think of it. The one who can succeed is not the person who complains about the changing world, but the one who can rise above its problems. - Unknown

The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion. - Paulo Coelho

The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them. - Warden

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. - Bertrand Russell

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. - Benjamin Disraeli

The world is incomprehensible. We won’t ever understand it; we won’t ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery. - Carlos Castaneda

The world is its own magic. - Shunryu Suzuki

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. - Helen Keller

The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness. - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order. - Henry Miller

The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story. - Bryon Katie

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. - Ivy Baker Priest

The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy Life’s pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other. - Swami Brahmananda 

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. - Benjamin Disraeli

The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change. - Bryon Katie

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. - D. H. Lawrence

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

The world we see tends to be the world we look for. - Richard J. Leider

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. - William James

The world will be a much better place to live in, if people endeavour to discover their similarities while treasuring their differences. - Unknown

The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves. - Sidney Madwed

The world’s a mean place. It’s unfair, then it’s fair. It’s hateful, then it’s loving. It’s a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels. - Tim Allen

There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for. - J.R.R. Tolkien

This world is but a canvas to our imagination. - Henry David Thoreau

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. - Thomas Carlyle

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them. - Henry De Montherlant

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual. - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

To realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more than what we are entitled to demand of it – this is a hard lesson. - Bruce Catton

To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world. - Unknown

We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. - Jacob Bronowski

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. - Jawaharlal Nehru

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment. - Orison Swett Marden

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms. - Stephen R. Covey

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world. - Robert M. Pirsig

What I put out into the world, I receive back from the world. - Unknown

What you perceive is in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. - Michael LeBeuf 

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. - Tuli Kupferberg

When the world seems large and complex, we need to remember that great world ideals all begin in some home neighborhood. - Konrad Adenauer

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy. - Max Ehrmann

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut. - Maxwell Maltz