World Quotes

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

We saw when those World Trade towers came down what these terrorists will do.

Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

When the Olympics and World Cups come around, that's when you see the real outpouring of support that there really is for female football.

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.

Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Qualifying for the second stage would be a successful World Cup for us. I think we can do it.

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.