Words matter. These are the best World Quotes from famous people such as Michael Franti, B. B. King, Albert Camus, Karl Marx, William Wordsworth, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.
People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position.
If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.
There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships, and collaboration, as we need an entire army of companies to work together to build a better world within the next few decades. This means corporations must embrace the benefits of cooperating with one another.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
We live in a digital world, but we’re fairly analog creatures.
We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.
We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
The human voice: It’s the instrument we all play. It’s the most powerful sound in the world, probably. It’s the only one that can start a war or say ‘I love you.’ And yet many people have the experience that when they speak, people don’t listen to them.
Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.
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.
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
All the riches in the world do not come close to the happiness of having children and being a mother.
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
Insanity – a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.
To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
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.
Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.
What ‘multiculturalism’ boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture – and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.
If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.
Ninety-nine percent of the world’s lovers are not with their first choice. That’s what makes the jukebox play.
Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
I don’t think Africa gets as much credit as it should have on the world stage. People tend to think of us as coming from The Dark Continent, where nothing good goes on. That’s not true. A huge amount of, as I say, entrepreneurship goes on.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
The older I get, the more I’m conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny little things, but the world is made up of tiny matters, isn’t it?
I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world.
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals’ imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.
I don’t want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don’t want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.
When I look at the world I’m pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.
There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
The world is a stage, the stage is a world of entertainment.
You mirror what the world mirrors to you.
Everyone has something to contribute to this world. It’s just a matter of being given that opportunity to do so.
All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
Art is the window to man’s soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?
I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.
Sexuality is who you want to be with. Gender identity is who you want to be in the world.
You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.
