Quotes
Quotes about World
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.
We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool - good luck.
And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead.
I do not know what I seem to the world, but to myself I appear to have been like a boy playing upon the seashore and diverting myself and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay before me all undiscovered.
We figure to ourselves The thing we like, and then we build it up As chance will have it, on the rock or sand: For Thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasyâ and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
As good be out of the World as out of the Fashion.
Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first, Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime, To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.
A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.
Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by.
Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
He who would live must fight, he who will not fight in this world where eternal struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.
It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because thatâs the way the world is.
The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death...
The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning of recorded time. There is no convincing economic reason why these trends toward a better life should not continue indefinitely.
Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared with the past; the material goods that we now possess; the speed at which information, entertainment, and we ourselves move freely throughout the world - it seems to me that a person must be literally deaf and blind not to perceive that humanity is in a much better state than ever before.
