World Quotes

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

~ Garry Trudeau

Almost 50 years old now, some 30 years after graduation, I look at my Caltech classmates and conclude that math whizzes do not take over the world.

~ Sandra Tsing Loh

Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being 'different' will pay off sometime after graduation. But no one explains to them why.

~ Alexandra Robbins

We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

~ Michael Jackson

Hard work opens doors and shows the world that you are serious about being one of those rare - and special - human beings who use the fullness of their talents to do their very best.

~ Robin S. Sharma

I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.

~ Eckhart Tolle

God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election.

~ James Dobson

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

~ Richard Branson

Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

~ Nikola Tesla

Learning something new is a fabulous way to be refreshed. When work can grind you down, something about learning a new activity thrills the soul. It reminds you that the world is bigger than your desk and your to-do list.

~ John Ortberg

Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.

~ Myles Munroe

I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world, and people who play heroes are jerks. It's like people who play villains work out all their problems on screen, and then they're just really wonderful people.

~ Tim Burton

I'm coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don't want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches.

~ Jack Ma

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

~ Simone De Beauvoir

I think for anybody, regardless of what industry you work in, when you get a new job, and it's progressive in terms of your career, that is one of the best feelings in the world.

~ Will Poulter

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

~ Andrew Carnegie

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

~ Ramakrishna

Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?

~ Wassily Kandinsky

The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

~ Marianne Williamson

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

~ Robert Frost

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

~ Barack Obama

Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when I'm on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.

~ Renzo Piano

O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

~ Abu Bakr

Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.

~ Ian Mackaye

You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you'd like to have it done. And I've always been able to surround myself with really good people.

~ Kenny Rogers

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

~ A. R. Ammons

It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.

~ Ron Livingston

There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.

~ Richard Nelson Bolles

The world's most famous and popular language is music.

~ Psy

The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ.

~ Muhammad Ali

Pleasure without God, without the sacred boundaries, will actually leave you emptier than before. And this is biblical truth, this is experiential truth. The loneliest people in the world are amongst the wealthiest and most famous who found no boundaries within which to live. That is a fact I've seen again and again.

~ Ravi Zacharias

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

~ Jesse Owens

My family's lineage, we are warriors. The McGregor clan, we are warriors all through. We are famous all through the world for our fighting capabilities of all generations. So I have no doubt that's stood to me and that led me down this path and gave me what I have.

~ Conor Mcgregor

I don't want to be famous. I like to be able to sit in a cafe and watch the world go by and observe people.

~ Sophia Myles

I was a little boy singing sad songs, about 9 or 10 years old in the woods. I listened to my voice coming back to me. It was as high as you could go. I dreamed of being famous as a singer when I was on those cotton fields. I wanted to see the world and meet people.

~ Percy Sledge

I'm a believer in the ordinary person, that the ordinary person is just as important and has an equally unique perspective on the world as someone who is famous or perhaps more privileged.

~ Brandon Stanton

Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply - yet everyone looks at you differently.

~ Matt Damon

Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world, while also understanding that will never be my situation.

~ Frank Ocean

When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.

~ Megan Fox