Top 590 World Quotes

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
Henry Ford
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
Alexander the Great
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Own your identity. Love who you are in the world. Love your deafness.
Nyle DiMarco
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.
J. G. Ballard
Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds – it’s the production of food and fiber from the world’s land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.
Allan Savory
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
Charles Kettering
When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.
C. S. Lewis
It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.
Cesar Chavez
Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
Daryn Kagan
By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.
Mark Zuckerberg
If I can bring happiness to people all around the world, then I will try my best to do so.
Tom Holland
There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.
David Starr Jordan
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‘I love you.’
Billy Graham
It’s difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.
Russell Brand
You affect the world by what you browse.
Tim Berners-Lee
I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I’m doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things that would represent a unique contribution to the world – the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill
What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildnes

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
Mark Twain
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
Franz Kafka
The most important impact on society and the world is the cell phone. Cell phones have actually been one of the primary drivers in productivity improvements.
Fabrice Grinda
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Dalai Lama
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
Plato
A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.
Buddha
It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
T. S. Eliot
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
E. O. Wilson
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
A wise ruler, when he makes his laws, is bound to find himself in conflict with the world.
Han Fei
Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give – pleasure, possessions, power – but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
Dada Vaswani
I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.
Erin Gruwell
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
Thomas Jefferson
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
Pope John Paul II
Coral reefs represent some of the world’s most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the sea’s most exquisite species will not survive.
Sheherazade Goldsmith
And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.
Christiane Amanpour
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Edgar Allan Poe
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, ‘I was wrong’.
Sydney J. Harris
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
I see the world through my eyes. It’s sometimes a strange world.
Keira Knightley
Cinema is a mirror that can change the world.
Diego Luna
Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone’s face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.
Henri Nouwen
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
William E. Gladstone
I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.
Bruce Lee
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
Anais Nin
The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
Norman Mailer
The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
Pablo Picasso
One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.
Franz Kafka
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
William Shakespeare
Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
Maria Montessori
To live in this world, you must be able to do three thi

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
Mary Oliver
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
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane Austen
Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I’ll stand on Bob Dylan’s coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.
Steve Earle
The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
Martin Buber
The European Union is the world’s most successful invention for advancing peace.
John Bruton
If it’s flipping hamburgers at McDonald’s, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.
Snoop Dogg
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
Malcolm Muggeridge
I think electricity will create a new world. I feel like the world will change a lot with electricity, and I wonder how it will change, it’s scary, and it’s going to be fun. I think there are so many things to think about when it comes to electric cars.
J-Hope
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Frederick Douglass
Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.
Jacqueline Woodson
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
Audrey Hepburn
The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
Ralph Marston
In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.
Francis Darwin
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Mahatma Gandhi
When you view your world with an attitude of gratitude, you are training yourself to focus on the good in life.
Paul J. Meyer
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
Babe Ruth
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mahatma Gandhi