Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.[Kevin Smith] Quote:If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.[Aristotle Onassis] Quote:Love doesn't make the world go round. Love makes the ride worthwhile.[Franklin Jones] Quote:Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world.[Wayne Dyer] Quote:Ernest Hemingway once wrote, 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part.[Morgan Freeman] Quote:I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote: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] Quote:I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.[Mother Teresa] Quote:People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway. Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.[Mother Teresa] Quote:There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation than for bread.[Mother Teresa] Quote:Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Karate is a form of marital arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.[Dave Barry] Quote:God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:A University of Chicago professor said the greatest day in the world was when a water puppy crawled out on land and decided to stay. The water puppy, he said, went on to become a man. If he proves that, I am willing to give up Christmas, Thanksgiving, and New Year's Day, and to celebrate Water Puppy Day.[William Jennings Bryan] Quote:Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.[Robert Frost] Quote:I can't think of a better way to spread the message of world peace than by working with the NFL and being part of Super Bowl XXVII.[Michael Jackson] Quote:Tokyo is huge. Something like 15 million people live there, and my estimate is that at any given moment, 14.7 million of them are lost. This is because the Tokyo street system holds the world outdoor record for randomness. A map of Tokyo looks like a tub of hyperactive bait. There is virtually no street that goes directly from anywhere to anywhere.[Dave Barry] Quote:I don't know what the new Ford will be called. Probably something like the 'Ford Untamed Wilderness Adventure.' In the TV commercials, it will be shown splashing through rivers, charging up rocky mountainsides, swinging on vines, diving off cliffs, racing through the surf, and fighting giant sharks hundreds of feet beneath the ocean surface -- all the daredevil things that cars do in Sport Utility Vehicle Commercial World, where nobody ever drives on an actual world. In fact, the interstate highways in Sport Utility Vehicle Commercial World, having been abandoned by humans, are teeming with deer, squirrels, birds, and other wildlife species that have fled from the forests to avoid being run over by nature-seekers in multi-ton vehicles barreling through the underbrush at 50 miles per hour.[Dave Barry] Quote:It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.[George Dennison Prentice] Quote: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] Quote:You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.[Aristotle] Quote:No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.[Aristotle] Quote:Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.[Mark Twain] Quote:The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.[Stephen King] Quote:I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:Maybe this world is another planet's hell.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.[Thomas Paine] Quote:Our country offers the most wonderful example of democratic government on a giant scale that the world has ever seen; and the peoples of the world are watching to see whether we succeed or fail.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty... I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led diffcult lives and led them well.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.[Winston Churchill] Quote:I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.[Thomas Edison] Quote:I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.[Thomas Edison] Quote:When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.[Otto von Bismarck] Quote:A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.[Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Quote:Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Let him that would move the world first move himself.[Socrates] Quote:True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.[Socrates] Quote:Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.[Henry Mencken] Quote:Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.[Mark Twain] Quote:I have a hobby...I have the world's largest collection of sea shells. I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen some of it...[Steven Wright] Quote:There are two kinds of people in this world: Michael Jackson fans and losers.[Seth Green] Quote:Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.[Thomas Sowell] Quote:The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Thus far, the reputed idiot Bush has graduated from Yale and Harvard, made a stack of cash in the oil industry, become the first consecutive-term governor of Texas, defeated a dual-term VP for the presidency, and led his party to [November 5th's] extraordinary triumphs. Let his opponents keep calling him stupid; if they do, within five years Bush will be King of England, the Pope, and world Formula One motor racing champion.[Tim Blair] Quote:We all wish to be judged by our peers, by the men 'after our own heart.' Only they really know our mind and only they judge it by standards we fully acknowledge. Theirs is the praise we really covet and the blame we really dread. The little pockets of early Chrstians survived because they cared exclusively for the love of 'the bretheren' and stopped their ears to the opinion of the Pagan society around them. But a circle of criminals, cranks, or perverts survives in just the same way; by becoming deaf to the opinion of the outer world, by discounting it as the chatter of outsiders who 'don't understand,' of the 'conventional,' the 'bourgeois,' the 'Establishment,' of prigs, prudes, and humbugs.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Learning has been [a] great loser by being shut up in colleges and cells and secluded from the world and good company.[David Hume] Quote:Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.[Margaret Mead] Quote:Calm, lasting beauty comes only in a dream, and this solace the world had thrown away when in its worship of the real it threw away the secrets of childhood and innocence.[H.P. Lovecraft] Quote:An eye for an eye, and soon the whole world is blind.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Actors are one family over the entire world.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:The reason I love my dog so much is because when I come home, he's the only one in the world who treats me like I'm The Beatles.[Bill Maher] Quote:It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.[Woody Allen] Quote:The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for.[Ernest Hemingway] Quote:The world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming it.[Helen Keller] Quote:You must be the change you wish to see in the world.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony. We may ignore Gandhi at our own risk.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.[Albert Einstein] Quote:The definition of success--To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition.; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--this is to have succeeded.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote: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] Quote:The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.[Daniel Webster] Quote:The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.[Helen Keller] Quote:There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.[Erna Bombeck] Quote:What we humans are is really a remarkable thing. How can you doubt that we will survive and mature? There may be a lot of wisdom in the old statement about looking on the world lovingly. If we can, perhaps the world will have time to resolve itself.[Gene Roddenberry] Quote:Ocean: A body of water occupying 2/3 of a world made for man...who has no gills.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.[Norman Vincent Peale] Quote:If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soulmate is the one you are actually married to.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered.[Adam Smith] Quote:Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.[Mark Twain] Quote:I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.[Blaise Pascal] Quote:Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.[Ansel Adams] Quote:There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.[Ansel Adams] Quote:The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.[Muhammad Ali] Quote:The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.[Mother Teresa] Quote:The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:It is our true policy to steer clear of any permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.[George Washington] Quote:When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.[George MacDonald] Quote:A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal; the conditions under which they have lived and have done their work have been better than in any similar work ever undertaken in the tropics; they have all felt an eager pride in their work; and they have made not only America but the whole world their debtors by what they have accomplished.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex.[Jack Handey] Quote:I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.[Jack Handey] Quote:We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.[Elbert Hubbard] Quote:Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It?s the age-old struggle?the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.[Douglas MacArthur] Quote:There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.[Robert Alden] Quote:Our industries have expanded to such a point that they will burst their jackets if they cannot find a free outlet to the markets of the world. Our domestic markets no longer suffice. We need foreign markets.[Woodrow Wilson] Quote:The President of the United States hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully to hear the one voice that tells him he's not.[Harry Truman] Quote:This world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.[Horace Walpole] Quote:The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.Workers of all countries...unite![Frederick Engels] Quote:Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.[Karl Marx] Quote:Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.[Plato] Quote:How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.[Alexander Pope] Quote:The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:There is not enough religion in the world to destroy the world's religions.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else![Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. [Baltasar Gracian] Quote:This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, <br>This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, <br>This other Eden, demi-paradise, <br>This fortress built by Nature for herself <br>Against infection and the hand of war, <br>This happy breed of men, this little world, <br>This precious stone set in the silver sea, <br>Which serves it in the office of a wall <br>Or as a moat defensive to a house, <br>Against the envy of less happier lands,-- <br>This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England. [William Shakespeare] Quote:A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. [George Santayana] Quote:Dreams are postcards from our subconscious, inner self to outer self, right brain trying to cross that moat to the left. Too often they come back unread: "return to sender, addressee unknown." That's a shame because it's a whole other world out there--or in here depending on your point of view. [Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde] Quote:So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:The only joy in the world is to begin. [Chuck] Quote:The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. [James Branch Cabell] Quote:A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. [Mark Twain] Quote: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] Quote:The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous. [Anna Quindlen] Quote:If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around. [Cicero] Quote:You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote: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] Quote: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] Quote:Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. [Andre Gide] Quote:I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. [George Sand] Quote:It's funny, to me, the way people refer to childbirth as a miraculous event. A miracle is something that defies nature. Only, childbirth has got to be the most natural thing in the world. Top three anyway. But, on the other hand, when you think about it, there's really no other word that fits. Sperm. Egg. A coincidental meshing of genetic information that will grow something that could write an opera or cook up some Napalm. It blows my mind. [Barbara Hall] Quote:They're slobbery and they're whiney and they look at you just like they could see right into your soul and they're unpredictable and the smell and they're noisy and the world revolves around them and why!? I don't get it. They're not interesting. They can't tell jokes, they don't have opinions, and they're boring, you know? They're just boring and annoying and I don't want to have one. [Barbara Hall] Quote:Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles. [Barbara Hall] Quote:Wildness. We're running out of it, even up in Alaska. People need to be reminded that the world is unsafe and unpredictable, and at a moment's notice, they could lose everything, like that. I do it to remind them that chaos is always out there, lurking beyond the horizon. That, plus, sometimes you have to do something bad, just to know you're alive. [David Assael] Quote:The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else. [Joseph Addison] Quote:The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. [Ayn Rand] Quote:There are more fools in the world than there are people. [Heinrich Heine] Quote:In a mad world only the mad are sane. [Albert Einstein] Quote:The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. [Albert Einstein] Quote:We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. [Helen Keller] Quote:History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo? Would that change what I had for breakfast? [Henry Bromel] Quote:I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world. [Gore Vidal] Quote:He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him. [Eddie Cantor] Quote:An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. [Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. [Herman Melville] Quote:The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman. [George Ade] Quote:A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. [Dorothy L. Sayers] Definitions of: worldDefinition: The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the system of created things; existent creation; the universe.Definition: Any planet or heavenly body, especially when considered as inhabited, and as the scene of interests analogous with human interests; as, a plurality of worlds. Definition: The earth and its inhabitants, with their concerns; the sum of human affairs and interests. Definition: In a more restricted sense, that part of the earth and its concerns which is known to any one, or contemplated by any one; a division of the globe, or of its inhabitants; human affairs as seen from a certain position, or from a given point of view; also, state of existence; scene of life and action; as, the Old World; the New World; the religious world; the Catholic world; the upper world; the future world; the heathen world. Definition: The customs, practices, and interests of men; general affairs of life; human society; public affairs and occupations; as, a knowledge of the world. Definition: Individual experience of, or concern with, life; course of life; sum of the affairs which affect the individual; as, to begin the world with no property; to lose all, and begin the world anew. Definition: The inhabitants of the earth; the human race; people in general; the public; mankind. Definition: The earth and its affairs as distinguished from heaven; concerns of this life as distinguished from those of the life to come; the present existence and its interests; hence, secular affairs; engrossment or absorption in the affairs of this life; worldly corruption; the ungodly or wicked part of mankind. Definition: As an emblem of immensity, a great multitude or quantity; a large number. |
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