First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.

Mahatma Ghandi

In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Oscar Wilde

Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known.

Oscar Wilde

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Oscar Wilde

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Oscar Wilde

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Henry Ford

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Robert Frost

Half the world is composed of those who have something to say but can't; the other half is of those who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Robert Frost

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

Isak Dinesen

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

Rita Mae Brown

The softest things in the world to overcome the hardest things in the world.

Lao tzu

The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.

Galileo Galilei

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

Herbert Spencer

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

William Cobbett

Most people are on the world, not in it - having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

John Muir

Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

Albert Einstein

We pass through this world but once.

Stephen Jay Gould

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Henry David Thoreau

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

Bern Williams

It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.

David Leavitt

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

Faye Wattleton

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.

Max Depree

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

Robert Quillen

The greatest horrors of our world, from the executions in Iran to the brutalities of the IRA, are committed by people who are totally sincere.

John Mortimer

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

Stanley Kubrick

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

Behind their lively, searching eyes one senses a doubting, a contemplative personality, always trying to make sense out of a puzzling world.

Adriaan Kortlandt

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

Thomas Dekker

The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness could we but see - and to see we have only to look.

Fra Giovanni Giocondo

The world is a beautiful place to be born into - if you don't mind some people dying all the time - or maybe only starving - some of the time which isn't half so bad - if it isn't you.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

For the hand that rocks the cradle - Is the hand that rules the world.

William Ross Wallace

Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.

Stuart Chase

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

Chaim Potok

I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

Alfred Edward Housman

Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

The world is a magician greater than Harut and Marut, and you should avoid it.

Abu Muhammad

The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.

Norbert Wiener

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

Walter Raleigh, Sr.

I can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife [Madonna]. That's even why I married her.

Guy Ritchie

World is abundant.Intellect is redundant.

Rushi Prabhakar

Great wide, beautiful, wonderful world, With the wonderful waters round you curled, And the wonderful grass upon your breast, World, you are beautifully drest.

William Brighty Rands

The world is gradually becoming a place where I do not care to be anymore.

John Berryman

The world is large, when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small, when your enemy is loose on the other side.

John Boyle O'reilly

The world is a strange and wonderful place.

Laurie Anderson

This world is very odd we see, We do not comprehend it; But in one fact we all agree, God won't, and we can't mend it.

Arthur Hugh Clough

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

Pedro Calderon De La Barca

The world belongs to the energetic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.

William Graham Sumner

Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.

Rosalynn Carter

The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.

James Thomson

Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

Irving Wallace

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

In a world where we are forced to conform to society, it is necessary to have personal chaos.

T. Alan Armstrong

I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.

Oscar Hammerstein Ii

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

Dean Acheson

As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.

Virginia Woolf

The world and all things in it are valuable; but the most valuable thing in the world is a virtuous woman.

Abu Muhammad

One is not superior merely because one sees the world in an odious light.

François R. Chateaubriand

Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.

Mark Twain

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 my lobster.

Henry J. Tillman

This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.

Barry Diller

The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion.

Kevin Patterson

The whole world is run on bluff.

Marcus Garvey

In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a controlling factor in national safety and welfare.

Gifford Pinchot

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

V. S. Naipaul

The earth laughs in flowers.

E. E. Cummings

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

General Douglas MacArthur

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

George Bernard Shaw

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

George Bernard Shaw

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and , if they can't find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

George Bernard Shaw

Successful people in this world are those who get up and look for circumstances they want. If they can't find them, they make them.

George Bernard Shaw

I was brought up in that other service; but I knew from the first that the Devil was my natural master and captain and friend. I saw that he was in the right, and that the world cringed to his conqueror only from fear.

George Bernard Shaw

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

George Bernard Shaw

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, they wouldn't reach any conclusion.

George Bernard Shaw

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

George Bernard Shaw

An eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind.

Mahatma Ghandi

Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.

Clifford Stoll

The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.

Socrates

How much there is in the world I do not want.

Socrates

While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.

Clifford Stoll

If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody.

Clifford Stoll

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Socrates

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Socrates

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

Socrates

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.

Clifford Stoll

There is not enough religion in the world to destroy the world's religions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

Friedrich Nietzsche

. . .the real world is much smaller than the imaginary.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world.

Oscar Wilde

This world is the will to power - and nothing besides!

Friedrich Nietzsche

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

Oscar Wilde

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Oscar Wilde

We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.

Oscar Wilde

It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.

Oscar Wilde

Beauty is a form of genius-is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Oscar Wilde

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Oscar Wilde

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

Oscar Wilde

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Michel de Montaigne

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

Anne Frank

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

Chuck Palahniuk

The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.

Chuck Palahniuk

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

Eric Sevareid

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

Benjamin Disraeli

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Napoleon Bonaparte

He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

Benjamin Disraeli

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Henry Ford

If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

Henry Ford

The whole world is a dream, and death the interpreter.

Yiddish proverb

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

John F. Kennedy

And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

John F. Kennedy

I never told my religion nor scrutinize that of another. I never attempted to make a convert nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged of others' religion by their lives, for it is from our lives and not from our words that our religion must be read. By the same test must the world judge me.

Thomas Jefferson

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

Thomas Jefferson

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will live as one.

John Lennon

Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill-up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account.

Scott Adams

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

Robert Frost

Ideas control the world.

James A. Garfield

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Lao tzu

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

There is no evil in the world without a remedy.

Jacopo Sannazaro

So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.

Oprah Winfrey

Everything in your world is created by what you think.

Oprah Winfrey

Everyone in the world is constantly fighting an internal battle. A battle between what the brain knows is right and what the heart knows it wants.

Oprah Winfrey

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Bob Dylan

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

Jack London

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

There are many in the world dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.

Mother Teresa

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Carl Sagan

I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.

M. C. Escher

He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.

Lao tzu

In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.

Carl Sagan

Learning builds daily accumulation, but the prictice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.

Lao tzu

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Carl Sagan

The world of the 1990s and beyond will not belong to 'managers' or those who can make the numbers dance. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders - people who not only have enormous amounts of energy but who can energize those whom they le.

Jack Welch

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.

Lao tzu

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,There arises the recognition of ugliness.When they all know the good as good,There arises the recognition of evil.

Lao tzu

I have three treasures. Guard and keep them:The first is deep love,The second is frugality,And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world.Because of deep love, one is courageous.Because of frugality, one is generous.Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

Lao tzu

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.

William Shakespeare

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

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

William Shakespeare

No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world.

William Shakespeare

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

William Shakespeare

Gold is worse poison to a man's soul, doing more murders in this loathsome world, than any mortal drug.

William Shakespeare

When truth is nothing but the truth, its unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world. In nature there are always so many other irrelevant things mixed up with the essential truth.

Aldous Huxley

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Aldous Huxley

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Aldous Huxley

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

Horace Mann

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Mahatma Gandhi

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi

There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.

Mahatma Gandhi

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Mahatma Gandhi

The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought.

Mahatma Gandhi

When you have a child, the world has a hostage.

Ernest Hemingway

This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

T. S. Eliot

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.

T. S. Eliot

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

Ernest Hemingway

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Seneca

There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

John Dewey

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Seneca

Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

John Dewey

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

Seneca

No man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner.

Charles Dickens

There were times when he could not read the face he had studied so long, and when this lonely girl was a greater mystery to him than any women of the world...

Charles Dickens

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!

Charles Dickens

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Charles Dickens

The thing in the world I am most of afraid of is fear, and with good reason,that passion alone in the trouble of it exceeding other accidents.

Michel de Montaigne

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.

Michel de Montaigne

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

Michel de Montaigne

I believe in me more than anything in this world.

Wilma Rudolph

Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.

Michel de Montaigne

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

Louis Pasteur

Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain.

Scott Westerfeld

But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

Alfred North Whitehead

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Dale Carnegie

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

Charles M. Schulz

The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.

Alexander Graham Bell

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

Booker T. Washington

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Babe Ruth

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

John Updike