World Quotes

I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my songs! And to me, that's crazy.

~ Kina Grannis

Well just meeting J. K. Rowling was amazing because she created all this world. And all the fans, we all get so obsessed with it and then you met the one person who made it all up. It was just so amazing. And I was just so amazed that that she wrote this book and all of the films have happened.

~ Evanna Lynch

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

~ Plato

Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.

~ Ed Koch

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

~ Chanakya

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

~ George W. Bush

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.

~ Barack Obama

Every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on clean renewable energy and one more dollar spent on making the world a comparatively dirtier and a more dangerous place, because nuclear power and nuclear weapons go hand in hand.

~ Mark Z. Jacobson

The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.

~ Gary Zukav

By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.

~ Mark Zuckerberg

There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?

~ J. J. Watt

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.

~ Orison Swett Marden

I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.

~ Harvey Fierstein

Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.

~ Jonathan Sacks

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.

~ James L. Buckley

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

~ Ayn Rand

Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.

~ Kevyn Aucoin

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

~ Frederick Law Olmsted

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

~ Václav Havel

Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.

~ Lawrence G. Lovasik

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

~ Susan Sarandon

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

~ James A. Baldwin

Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.

~ Alfred A. Montapert

To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.

~ Tiberius

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

~ John Galsworthy

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

~ Václav Havel

One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.

~ David Simon

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

~ Victor Hugo

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

~ Eric Sevareid

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.

~ Charles De Gaulle

Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.

~ Olusegun Obasanjo

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

~ John Stuart Mill

The end of the world is on people's minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but the question is what do you do with that responsibility.

~ Nicolas Cage

What is a uni-polar world? No matter how we beautify this term, it means one single centre of power, one single centre of force and one single master.

~ Vladimir Putin

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

~ William Shenstone

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

~ Amelia Barr

The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.

~ Breyten Breytenbach

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

~ E. Stanley Jones