Quotes About World

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.

And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs.

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.

That which comes into the world to disturb nothing deserves neither respect nor patience.

Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so unstintingly of his discovery to the world.

All our interior world is reality - and that perhaps more so than our apparent world.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world.

Right is the eternal sun; the world cannot delay its coming.

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.

To be a housewife is ... a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes ungrateful job if it's looked on as only a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently, or the world will be lost indeed.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

The best minister is the human heart; the best teacher is time; the best book is the world; the best friend is God.

Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius, which is apt to be perturbable and to wear itself out before fruition.

There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed . . . And all went to be taxed, everyone into his own city.

The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him and saith. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world.