Quotes
Quotes about World
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
Don't overlook the importance of worldwide thinking. A company that keeps its eye on Tom, Dick and Harry is going to miss Pierre, Hans and Yoshio.
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.
Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.
To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower: Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.
I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it--but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
You may go to Carlisle's and to Almanac's too; And I'll give you my Head if you find such a Host, For Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, Butter, or Toast; How he welcomes at once all the World and his Wife, And how civil to Folks he ne'er saw in his Life.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.
For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
The only tyrant I will accept in this world is the "still small voice" within me.
Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger and we will make not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission: "While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.".
Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. And when you live it people may think you're crazy. It has been truthfully said that the world is equally shocked by one who repudiates Christianity as by one who practices it.
The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive is in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results.
The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
