Top 590 World Quotes

Don’t quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can’t see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It’s the one that makes the sweetest sound.
Simon Sinek
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
George W. Bush
The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
Mario Puzo
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
Henry David Thoreau
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
H. L. Mencken
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Henry Ward Beecher
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
If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
Aristotle Onassis
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
Warren Bennis
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Thomas Sowell
In my world, of course, it don’t matter. You could be a gangster with a dress, you could be a gangster with baggy pants.
Young Thug
The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.
John McAfee
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Socrates
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
George Washington
Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.
Ban Ki-moon
I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for ‘Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, ‘Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for – worth dying for.
Margaret Mitchell
I do believe we’re all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.
Harvey Fierstein
The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it’s your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can’t package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.
Wayne Dyer
Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
Voltaire
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Swami Vivekananda
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
William Blake
My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.
Billy Graham
Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.
Willem Dafoe
Education is for improving the lives of others and for

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Marian Wright Edelman
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Winston Churchill
I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.
Cristiano Ronaldo
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Frank Lloyd Wright
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
Roy Lichtenstein
The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
Samuel Johnson
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw
God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.
Paul Dirac
My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It’s about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
Wynonna Judd
At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.
Muhammad Ali
Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn’t help us know what to say.
Jonathan Sacks
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
Karl Marx
What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.
Chuck Grassley
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David Thoreau
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
T. S. Eliot
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
Jesus Christ
We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.
Sam Ewing
We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.
Barack Obama
When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
Mitski
What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language.
Miuccia Prada
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw
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 next generation has always been and will be better than the previous one. If it is not, then the world would not be moving forward.
Kapil Dev
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.
Mahatma Gandhi
O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
Abu Bakr
Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it’s a start.
Anthony Bourdain
They say a midget standing on a giant’s shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am.
Jay-Z
In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.
Barack Obama
Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.
Wayne Dyer
There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
Jackie Kennedy
If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the w

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
William Tecumseh Sherman
The world gets better every day – then worse again in the evening.
Kin Hubbard
The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.
Ronald Reagan
There are two things that won’t last long in this world, and that’s dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars.
Lee Trevino
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
John F. Kennedy
Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
C. S. Lewis
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. Lewis
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost
I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.
Sylvester Stallone
The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.
Brennan Manning
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
John F. Kennedy