110 World Quotes To Inspire

In a world brimming with stories and perspectives, words have the power to transcend boundaries, inspire change, and ignite the human spirit. Whether it's a timeless adage handed down through generations or a profound observation from a modern thinker, quotes encapsulate wisdom in its most distilled form. In this curated collection of the top 110 world quotes, we embark on a journey through different cultures, eras, and ideologies, seeking inspiration from voices that have left an indelible mark on humanity. Allow these words to stir your imagination, fuel your ambitions, and provide clarity as you navigate the complexities of life. Let the journey begin!

1. “It’s a secondhand world we’re born into. What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn, and what we cannot see, that has come before- what our parents have seen and been and done- are the hand-me-downs we begin to wear as swaddling clothes, even as we ourselves are naked. The flaw runs through us, implicating us in its imperfection even as it separates us, delivers us onto opposite sides of a chasm. It is both terribly beautiful and terribly sad, but it is, finally, the fault in the universe that gives birth to us all.” - Katherine Min

2. “ The Paradoxical Commandments People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.Love them anyway.If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.Do good anyway.If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.Succeed anyway.The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.Do good anyway.Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.Be honest and frank anyway.The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.Think big anyway.People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.Fight for a few underdogs anyway.What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.Build anyway.People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.Help people anyway.Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.Give the world the best you have anyway.” - Kent M. Keith

3. “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” - C.S. Lewis

4. “But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.” - Voltaire

5. “Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.” - Marilyn Monroe

6. “The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.” - Sherman Alexie

7. “If the whole world I once could seeOn free soil stand, with the people freeThen to the moment might I say,Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.” - Goethe

8. “It's a cruel and random world, but the chaos is all so beautiful.” - Hiromu Arakawa

9. “One must be cunning and wicked in this world.” - Leo Tolstoy

10. “Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.” - Margaret Atwood

11. “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.” - Oscar Wilde

12. “The world is'nt such a bad place at all - as long as one did'nt read the daily newspaper” - Bill Aitken

13. “Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:1. Acceptance2. Understanding3. AppreciationRemove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart.Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions?So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole.” - Vera Nazarian

14. “The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface.The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.Inside out and outside in. These are worlds of things that implode or explode, and the only catalyst that determines the direction of eco-movement is the balance of water.Both worlds are deceptive, dangerous. Both, seething with hidden life.The only veil that stands between perception of what is underneath the desolate surface is your courage.Dare to breach the surface and sink.” - Vera Nazarian

15. “Be a light unto the world, and hurt it not. Seek to build not destroy. Bring My people home. How? By your shining example. Seek only Godliness. Speak only in truthfulness. Act only in love. Live the Law of Love now and forever more. Give everything require nothing. Avoid the mundane. Do not accept the unacceptable. Teach all who seek to learn of Me. Make every moment of your life an outpouring of love. Use every moment to think the highest thought, say the highest word, do the highest deed. In this, glorify your Holy Self, and thus too, glorify Me. Bring peace to the Earth by bringing peace to all those whose lives you touch. Be peace. Feel and express in every moment your Divine Connection with the All, and with every person, place, and thing. Embrace every circumstance, own every fault, share every joy, contemplate every mystery, walk in every man’s shoes, forgive every offense (including your own), heal every heart, honor every person’s truth, adore every person’s God, protect every person’s rights, preserve every person’s dignity, promote every person’s interests, provide every person’s needs, presume every person’s holiness, present every person’s greatest gifts, produce every person’s blessing, pronounce every person’s future secure in the assured love of God. Be a living, breathing example of the Highest Truth that resides within you. Speak humbly of yourself, lest someone mistake your Highest Truth for boast. Speak softly, lest someone think you are merely calling for attention. Speak gently, that all might know of Love. Speak openly, lest someone think you have something to hide. Speak candidly, so you cannot be mistaken. Speak often, so that your word may truly go forth. Speak respectfully, that no one be dishonored. Speak lovingly, that every syllable may heal. Speak of Me with every utterance. Make of your life a gift. Remember always, you are the gift! Be a gift to everyone who enters your life, and to everyone whose life you enter. Be careful not to enter another’s life if you cannot be a gift. (You can always be a gift, because you always are the gift—yet sometimes you don’t let yourself know that.) When someone enters your life unexpectedly, look for the gift that person has come to receive from you…I HAVE SENT YOU NOTHING BUT ANGELS.” - Neale Donald Walsch

16. “Glory: I look around at this world you're so eager to be a part of and all I see is six billion lunatics looking for the fastest ride out. Who's not crazy? Look around, everyone's drinking, smoking, shooting up, shooting each other, or just plain screwing their brains out 'cause they don't want 'em anymore. I'm crazy? Honey, I'm the original one-eyed chicklet in the kingdom of the blind, 'cause at least I admit the world makes me nuts.” - Douglas Petrie

17. “I am a star in the firmamentthat observe the world, despises the worldand consumed in its heat.I am the sea by night in a stormthe sea shouting that accumulates new sinsand to the ancient makes recompense.I am exiled from your worldof pride polite, by pride defrauded,I am the king without crown.I am the passion without wordswithout stones of the hearth, without weapons in the war,is my same force that make me sick” - Hermann Hesse

18. “A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.” - Ursula K. Le Guin

19. “This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.” - Henry David Thoreau

20. “In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.” - Karl Lagerfeld

21. “The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.” - Michel de Montaigne

22. “There is no question that the objects that surround us impact our experience of the world.” - Katherine Center

23. “Maybe it's wrong-footed trying to fit people into the world, rather than trying to make the world a better place for people.[as quoted in "Brain Gain" by Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 4/27/09 issue]” - Paul McHugh

24. “There are people who desperately want to change the world. I wonder if it could be measured, because the world is already in the state of continuously change since the beginning of time. Or they may just want their names etched nicely on men history.” - Toba Beta

25. “The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.” - Molière

26. “We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.” - Lev Grossman

27. “I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!” - Khaled Hosseini

28. “There are very few things that live in both this world and the world of dreams. Most are gods, angels and demons. The Stone you hold was made by Vlad Valkire the son of an angel and a demon. By the divine blood that ran in his veins, Valkire could see the light and hear the song of creation -- if only as glimmerings and whispers. "Over time, he became aware of the light and the music and as he grew so did his understanding of it. At the age of twenty two, he began his greatest labor -- the making of the Wyrd Stones. In them he captured the light and song of creation and by them some of the powers of gods, angels and demons fell into the hands of elves and men. A sorcerer who knows its secret may -- like a god, angel, or demon -- stand with one foot in this world and another within the world of dreams. "Your Stone is a gateway into the world of dreams, Luthiel. When you sing, it opens and you are, in part, taken there. Others who hold a Wyrd Stone like yours may know when someone crosses into dream. When you sang, I could hear you quite clearly.” - Robert Fanney

29. “There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything.” - Fran Lebowitz

30. “But if you tame me, then weshall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, Ishall be unique in all the world.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

31. “This world is out of date” - Kamila Shamsie

32. “...it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner.” - Dean Koontz

33. “If everyone saw himself as a citizen of the world rather than of his town, city or country, the world would be a more peaceful, better place where success in all forms is abundant and available to all.” - Jim Rogers

34. “After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it.” - Sebastian Barry

35. “If you believe in the idea of true friends, then your heart is vulnerable to betrayal.” - Toba Beta

36. “The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.” - Kurt Vonnegut

37. “Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

38. “Some things take so longBut how do I explainWhen not too many peopleCan see we're all the sameAnd because of all their tearsYour eyes can't hope to seeThe beauty that surrounds themNow, isn't it a pity” - George Harrison

39. “You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.” - Hermann Hesse

40. “That which attracts the world must please and pander to the self-importance of man. The world itself is a vain show, and likes its own. Consequently there is nothing which so carries the mass of men along with it as that which flatters the vanity of the human mind. It may assume the lowliest air, but sinful man seeks his own honour and present exaltation.” - William Kelly

41. “Eric understands that the world is rarely the way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ourselves.” - Jodi Picoult

42. “The world looks so beautiful! She wonders how one can not do for it anything that needs to be done, or at least all one can do.” - Carol Emshwiller

43. “War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but also the very worst. Where is it, I ask, the proper conduit through which a soldier should be raised from whence they would become an upstanding citizen of the world, instead of a single country?” - Mike Norton

44. “Sober Minds give the world a chance. True Love brings you Hope. Blind Faith moves mountains. And the main savior from despair is Laughter.” - Lara Biuts

45. “…but he realized he would never reconcile himself to life as something other than a prelude. What’s life’s meaning then? What is it? What does make the world go round, not letting hope die? What do people dream about, watching the endless flow of years? They dream. A dream, that’s it. We live for our only dream, which can lead us, hand in hand, through our life; for the dream we reconcile ourselves to any frustrations and we shall struggle for releasing its silky wings from the net of reality. (The right to a mistake.)” - Lara Biuts

46. “Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.” - Oswald Chambers

47. “I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.” - Ann Voskamp

48. “Incidentally, the world is magical.Magic is simply what's off our human scale... at the moment.” - Vera Nazarian

49. “The fever, I realized, had gone. Beneath my feet, the hardwood floor felt cool on my feet, the air gentle against my itching legs. This was just the world, after all. Big, thoroughly mapped place to sell joy or buy it, hunt company or flee it, trust yourself or your friends or your instincts, stretch the hours as much as you could, and one day vanish. ("Safety Clowns")” - Glen Hirshberg

50. “Lo básico es dejar amplio margen para elaprendizaje” - Friedrich A. von Hayek

51. “I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you and me. So be very careful not only in how you repeat it but in how you remember it, goslings. More often than you realize it, the world is shaped by two things -- stories told and the memories they leave behind.” - Vera Nazarian

52. “Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.” - Criss Jami

53. “Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!” - Criss Jami

54. “As a spirit having a human experience, you can choose to not merely exist but to be fully conscious and aware of living in a limited world. When you take a conscious part in life and its multitudes of choices, you won't let life happen to you - you will make life happen for you.” - James Van Praagh

55. “In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.” - Alan Wilson Watts

56. “I'm very down to Earth, I'm just not from this Earth.” - Karl Lagerfeld

57. “When I shop, the world gets better, and the world is better, but then it's not, and I need to do it again.(Confessions of a Shopaholic-the movie)” - Sophie Kinsella

58. “What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?” - Terry Pratchett

59. “You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.” - Oprah Winfrey

60. “That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.” - Lev Grossman

61. “She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life.” - Orhan Pamuk

62. “We should set our goals; then learn to control our appetites. Otherwise, we will lose ourselves in the confusion of the world.” - Hark Herald Sarmiento

63. “The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.” - William Hazlitt

64. “I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt.” - Julie Delpy

65. “When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.” - Catherynne M. Valente

66. “I love the world, just, you know...not the people in it.” - Hannah Vandegrift

67. “... I felt something and vowed that if I ever got a girl I would treat her right and never be bad or dirty to her or hurt her, ever. I vowed it and had all the confidence in the world that I would keep the vow.” - Markus Zusak

68. “I got a number of very thoughtful responses to the email I sent out last night, most of which I don’t have time to respond to right now. Thanks everyone for the encouragement, questions, criticism. Daniel’s response was particularly inspiring to me and deserves to be shared. The resistance of Israeli Jewish people to the occupation and the enormous risk taken by those refusing to serve in the Israeli military offers an example, especially for those of us living in the United States, of how to behave when you discover that atrocities are being commited in your name. Thank you.” - Rachel Corrie

69. “This worldthat was our homefor a brief spellnever brought us anythingbut pain and grief;its a shame that not one of our problemswas ever solved.We departwith a thousand regretsin our hearts.” - Omar Khayyám

70. “Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.” - John Steinbeck

71. “Thy will be done, my Lord. Because you know the weakness in the heart of yourchildren, and you assign each of them only the burden they can bear. May youunderstand my love–because it is the only thing I have that is really mine, the only thing that I will be able to take with me into the next life. Please allow it to be courageous and pure; please make it capable of surviving the snares of the world.” - Paulo Coelho

72. “Now, the world is more than it seems to be. You know this, of course, because you read stories. You understand that there is the surface and then there are all the things that glimmer and shift underneath it. And you know that not everyone believes in those things, that there are people—a great many people—who believe the world cannot be any more than what they can see with their eyes. But we know better.” - Anne Ursu

73. “People move around so much in the world, things get lost.” - Emma Donoghue

74. “I loved you, you know... It's not my fault the world is what it is.” - Ed Brubaker

75. “We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire...” - Cordwainer Smith

76. “I stared hard, trying to find a pattern. Thinking if I kept looking hard enough, maybe the pieces of the world would fit back together into something I could understand.” - Carol Rifka Brunt

77. “The successful person and the unsuccessful person are looking at the same world; the difference between them is what they see.” - Steve Maraboli

78. “you cross the field in the snow leaving tracks in perfect whiteness ...disturbing my placid universe...marking the landscape within me ...” - John Geddes

79. “Saying something is far too simple is a doubter's way or trying to make the world more complex so he won't have answers.” - Adam P. Knave

80. “I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in the world, except this again?” - Peter S. Beagle

81. “The entity God created to traffic His transcendence has fallen far from its mission when it chooses instead to traffic what can be found on any street corner or at the local mall. You may ask, "But how has the church done that?" * By offering secularists what they find mildly interesting and calling it church.*By submitting to self-help sermons where encounter with God is not even on the agenda.* By letting the horizontal excellence of the show stand in for Vertical impact.*By substituting the surprise or shock of superficial entertainment for the supernatural.Church was designed to deliver what we were created to long for. Church must again be about a Vertical encounter that interrupts and alters everything.” - James MacDonald

82. “You are perceiving the world around you and you act likewise. How can you go beyond that? Simply, by observing what you do and why you do it. Be clear to yourself and you will experience everything in a new dimension. The clearer you are, the deeper and better you will be able to perceive everything around you in clarity ~” - Grigoris Deoudis

83. “People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

84. “But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.""You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one.” - Haruki Murakami

85. “It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.” - Albert Camus

86. “Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?” - Leo Tolstoy

87. “I am a citizen of the world.” - Sylvia Beach

88. “The world is mad, but let's not get angry about it.” - George Hammond

89. “Maybe not. But maybe that's how the world changes, Isaiah. One father, one child, at a time.” - Barbara Samuel

90. “The world is God's salvation.” - Dejan Stojanovic

91. “My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.” - Dejan Stojanovic

92. “دانیال گفت : فرض دوم زنی در کار نیست . تلویزیون برنامه کودک پخش می کرد . " اگه زنی در کار نباشه ، عشقی هم در کار نیست . شکسپیر و حافظ و رومئو وژولیت و شیرین و فرهاد ول معطل اند . اگه روزی زن ها بخواند از این جا برند ، تقریبا همه ادبیات و سینما و هنر دنیا رو با خودشون باید ببرند . اما اگه قرار باشه مردا برند چی ؟ "اگه قرار باشه مردها از این دنیا گورشون رو گم کنند و برند بهت قول میدم که هر چی جنگ و کشتار و کثافت کاری های دیگه است رو با خودشون میبرند . دنیا عینهو گوشت خرگوش می مونه . نصف حلال نصف حرام . زن نصفه ی حلال دنیاست . هر چی کثافت کاری و گند کاری هست توی مردهاست . هرکی قبول نداره ورداره آمار رو بخونه . تاریخ رو بخونه . تلویزیون تماشا کنه .” - مصطفی مستور

93. “It's quiet for a while, and then Rowan says; "We could talk now. We're alone out here. No walls.""There are always walls." I say.” - Lauren DeStefano

94. “Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand.” - Sophie Kinsella

95. “What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began? It could not be a wall; but there could be a thin line there all round everything.[...]It pained him that he did not know well what politics meant and that he did not know where the universe ended. He felt small and weak. When would he be like the fellows in poetry and rhetoric?” - James Joyce

96. “ world is small to hate but very big to love” - shivank sagar

97. “It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it in return.” - Lauren DeStefano

98. “Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.” - David Foster Wallace

99. “Every kingdom has three pillars: Poet, Sword and Law.” - Lara Biyuts

100. “If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.” - Alice Hoffman

101. “Domnul Isus este bunatatea intruchipata.Cei care-L primesc in vietile lor sant chemati si ei sa arate lumii aceasta bunatate.” - Simon Schrock

102. “I watched the people passing below, each of them a story, each story part of somebody else's, all of it connected to the big story of the world. People weren't islands, so far as I was concerned. How could they be, when their stories kept getting tangled up in everybody else's?” - Charles de Lint

103. “If the world were perfect, then I would not exist.” - Gavriil Stiharul

104. “Conor, I could search the world for another swashbuckling scientist, but I doubt if I would find one like you.” - Eoin Colfer

105. “Yes! That's what all our talk about a decent world has been... just so much bullshit.""We did say it was still only a dream.""And a bloody useless one at that. Life's a fuck-up and it's never going to change.” - Athol Fugard

106. “There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.” - Marilynne Robinson

107. “It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.” - Tennessee Williams

108. “I do feel like I have important, beautiful things to say about the world, I just can't think of them at this particular instant.” - Peter Davis

109. “The vast and beautiful world is the home we share together.” - Bryant McGill

110. “Unleash your mighty words, and with them, recreate a new and more beautiful world for all.” - Bryant McGill