Top 100 Quotes About the World (2025 Update)
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51. “What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”

— Henry David Thoreau

52. “With our thoughts we make the world.”

— Buddha

53. “There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.”

— Isaac Asimov

54. “If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn’t it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?”

— Maya Angelou

55. “The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.”

— Noam Chomsky

56. “Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety and a better future. It is part of the social fabric, part of our very make-up as a human family.”

— Ban Ki-Moon

57. “Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!”

— Yuri Gagarin

58. “There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”

— Robert F. Kennedy

59. “Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”

— Iain Thomas

60. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Yoko Ono

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

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

— Michael Jackson

64. “It’s a crazy world out there. Be curious.”

— Stephen Hawking

65. “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

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

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Will Smith

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Rumi

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

— Bill Gates

71. “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

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

— Deepak Chopra

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

— Tim Ferriss

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

— Barack Obama

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

— T.D. Jakes

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

— Rumi

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

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Michael Jackson

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

— Rumi

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

— Pablo Neruda

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

— Stephen King

82. “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

83. “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

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

— Hamilton Wright Mabie

85. “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

86. “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

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

— Nikola Tesla

88. “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

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

— Karl Marx

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

— Leo Tolstoy

91. “Software is eating the world.”

— Marc Andreessen

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

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

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

— Genghis Khan

94. “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

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

— Ram Dass

96. “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

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

— Haruki Murakami

98. “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

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

— Johnny Cash

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

— Alicia Silverstone