Top 40 Quotes About the World (2024 Update)

1. “You change the world by being yourself.”

— Yoko Ono

Also featured in: Being Yourself Quotes

2. “The world is not in your books and maps, it’s out there.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Also featured in: Book Quotes

3. “If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change.”

— Michael Jackson

Also featured in: Peace Quotes

4. “Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.”

— Stephen Hawking

Also featured in: Crazy Quotes

5. “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it.”

— Muhammad Ali

6. “A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.”

— Khalil Gibran

7. “You are the world and the world is you.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

8. “I want the world to be better because I was here.”

— Will Smith

9. “Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Silence Quotes

10. “Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.”

— Bill Gates

Also featured in: Focus Quotes

11. “I want the world to be better because I was here. I want my life, I want my work, my family, I want it to mean something and if you are not making someone else’s life better then you are wasting your time.”

— Will Smith

12. “If you had all the money and all the time in the world, what would you do?!”

— Deepak Chopra

Also featured in: Vision Quotes

13. “If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.”

— Tim Ferriss

14. “For the world has changed, and we must change with it.”

— Barack Obama

15. “The most dangerous thing in the world is to have no purpose.”

— T.D. Jakes

Also featured in: Purpose Quotes

16. “Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Yoga Quotes

17. “I wanted the whole world or nothing.”

— Charles Bukowski

18. “We are the world, we are the children...”

— Michael Jackson

Also featured in: Quotes About Children

19. “Open your Eyes, for this World is only a Dream.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Quotes About Dreams

20. “Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.”

— Pablo Neruda

Also featured in: Love Is Quotes

21. “Go then, there are other worlds than these.”

— Stephen King

22. “Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.”

— Eckhart Tolle

23. “Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.”

— Charles Bukowski

Also featured in: Soul Quotes

24. “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”

— Hamilton Wright Mabie

Also featured in: Christmas Quotes

25. “Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.”

— Alan Watts

Also featured in: Goal Quotes

26. “Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.”

— Tim Ferriss

Also featured in: Quotes About Believing

27. “At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.”

— T. S. Eliot

Also featured in: Dance Quotes

28. “Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.”

— Nikola Tesla

29. “Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.”

— Karl Marx

30. “The legislation of Quran will spread all over the world, because it agrees with the mind, logic and wisdom.”

— Leo Tolstoy

Also featured in: Mind Quotes

31. “Software is eating the world.”

— Marc Andreessen

Also featured in: Programming Quotes

32. “Network marketing is the fastest growing business model in the world today.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

Also featured in: Marketing Quotes

33. “Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.”

— Genghis Khan

34. “When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.”

— Alan Watts

35. “You have all the time in the world, but don’t waste a moment.”

— Ram Dass

36. “When I was young I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything I used to think ‘How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?’”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Also featured in: Hate Quotes

37. “Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.”

— Haruki Murakami

Also featured in: Quotes About Waiting, Quotes About Heart

38. “God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‘I love you.’”

— Billy Graham

39. “Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.”

— Johnny Cash

Also featured in: Quotes About Money, Worry Quotes

40. “I can’t think of anything better in the world to be but a vegan.”

— Alicia Silverstone

Also featured in: Quotes About Thinking, Quotes About Veganism