"To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself."
Read quote
7 likes
World quotes
World
26.2K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to World
Browse quotes that often appear alongside world — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
World quotes (page 157 of 1309)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?"
Read quote
7 likes
"Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man."
Read quote
7 likes
"I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there."
Read quote
7 likes
"And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."
Read quote
7 likes
"Never underestimate your life. It is most precious. You never know what talents are hidden within you and what you have to offer to the world!"
Read quote
7 likes
"The master is presence. The world is relativity and relativity has limitations. Presence is unlimited."
Read quote
7 likes
"Let us serve the world soulfully. The pay we will receive for our service will be in the currency of gratitude, God's gratitude, God the only gratitude."
Read quote
7 likes
"What do you want to do sadhana for? The aim should not be the satisfaction of egoism: "I want to be a great yogi; I shall have so much power and with that power I shall establish myself in the world." All such thoughts must be thrown far away."
Read quote
7 likes
"Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective."
Read quote
7 likes
"If the world watched how you worked today, would the world rise to its feet and applaud?"
Read quote
7 likes
"Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will."
Read quote
7 likes
"The world is open for play, that everything and everybody is mockable, in a wonderful way."
Read quote
7 likes
"There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ... Of these sciences the gate and key is mathematics ... He who is ignorant of this [mathematics] cannot know the other sciences nor the affairs of this world."
Read quote
7 likes
"I have an unswayable obsession with death. If there was a magical pill that one could take that would retire you from the world, I would take it."
Read quote
7 likes
"You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world."
Read quote
7 likes
"Do the people in Australia call the rest of the world 'Up Over'?"
Read quote
7 likes
"I firmly believe the world will sort itself out in the end. Believe it with me. At least none of us will be around to be proven wrong."
Read quote
7 likes
"The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence."
Read quote
7 likes
"It is the subjective world that rules the objective. Change the subject, and the object is bound to change; purify youreslf, and the world is bound to be purified."
Read quote
7 likes