These world quotes will inspire you. World, refers to the totality of entities, to the whole of reality, or to everything that is or the earth, together with all of its countries, peoples, and natural features.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging world quotes, world sayings, and world proverbs.
Best World Quotes
- “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
- “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” ~ Mark Twain
- “The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
- “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
- “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“To be simple is the best thing in the world.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
- “You’ve got to love yourself with all your shortcomings, and you’ve got to love the world no matter how bad it gets.” ~ Joan Bauer , World quotes love
- “The world remains ever the same.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.” ~ Michael Jackson
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“Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.” ~ Charles Kingsley
- “Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.” ~ Louis D. Brandeis
- “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” ~ Roald Dahl
- “Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Example moves the world more than doctrine.” ~ Henry Miller
- “Half the world does not know how the other half lives.” ~ Francois Rabelais
- “The world is a dangerous place to live” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” ~ Margaret Mead
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“Each friend represents a world in us.” ~ Anais Nin
- “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” ~ Dr. Seuss
- “The New World Order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all.” ~ Nelson Mandela
- “God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, “Of the world”; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.” ~ Kedar Joshi
- “At the end of the day, God’s love for me, for you, and for the world is settled at the cross.” ~ Andy Stanley
- “What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “I hope someday you will join us and the world will live as one.” ~ John Lennon
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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” ~ Nelson Mandela
- “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ~ Marcel Proust
- “Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.” ~ Dante Alighieri
- “There is a ripple effect to the gospel that’s inevitable. There’s a ripple effect to true grace. It doesn’t lead us to only sit and contemplate what hap- pened to us. It leads us to proclaim what’s happened to us—and what can happen to anybody and everybody on the planet.” ~ Louie Giglio
- “Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven’s dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.” ~ Christian Nestell Bovee
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“All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.” ~ Helen Keller
- “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” ~ William James
- “It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.” ~ Marshall McLuhan
- “Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.” ~ Mikhail Gorbachev
- “O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in’t!” ~ William Shakespeare
- “The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is” ~ Alan Watts
- “Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don’t see.” ~ Isaac Asimov
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“Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” ~ Anais Nin
- “Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day; Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth, And make use of your wings while you may. . . . . But tho’ dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite, They at last found it dangerous play; Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth, Only dazzle to lead us astray.” ~ Thomas Haynes Bayly
- “The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.” ~ Albert Camus
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“It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to have to paint it.” ~ Steven Wright
- “If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.” ~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
- “If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the world.” ~ Henry Arthur Jones
- “I would support a Presidential candidate who pledged to take the following steps: … At the end of the war in the Persian Gulf, press for a comprehensive Middle East settlement and for a ‘new world order’ based not on Pax Americana but on peace through law with a stronger U.N. and World Court.” ~ George McGovern
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“It takes all sorts of people to make a world.” ~ Douglas William Jerrold
- “If all the world must see the world
As the world the world hath seen,
Then it were better for the world
That the world have never been.” ~ Charles Godfrey Leland - “But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” ~ Aldous Huxley
- “The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.” ~ Byron Katie
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“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.” ~ Ben Elton
- “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
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“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.” ~ T. S. Eliot
- “And that,” put in the Director sententiously, “that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you’ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.” ~ Aldous Huxley
- “All the world’s a stage.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living.” ~ Robert Jones Burdette
- “The world is God’s world, after all.” ~ Charles Kingsley
