Quotes on World

Irreverence ran on both sides of our family...my parents brought me up to think we could all change the world.

All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.

Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.

How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many books have been written - each object appears wholly undescribed to our experience - each field of thought wholly unexplored - the whole world is an America - a New World.

In the real world, those of us who are most productive, successful, and satisfied focus not on fixing feelings or manipulating thoughts, but on what needs to be done-and then doing it-no matter what thoughts or feelings arise.

There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.

Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.

The people who have achieved more than you, in any area, are only a half step ahead of you in time. Bless them and praise their gifts, and bless and praise your own. The world would be less rich without their contributions, and it would be less rich without yours. There's more than room for everyone; in fact, there's a need for everyone.

Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before hey actually do it. They begin with the end in mind.

In the end, the overriding factor in whether or not you realize your dreams is going to be you. Not the world. YOU.

Do well and right and let the world sink.

The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.

The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good.

The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.

A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man.

Earth being so good, would heaven seem best?

I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.

What will your children remember? We can change the world inside our own houses. Take the gift of this moment and make something beautiful of it. Few worthwhile experiences just happen; memories are made on purpose.