Abolishing Quotes

Mankind are more disposed to suffer,
while evils are sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing
the forms to which they are accustomed.
- Thomas Jefferson

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The world is very different now.
For man holds in his mortal hands
the power to abolish all forms of human poverty,
and all forms of human life.
- John F. Kennedy

The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy

Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller

The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha

By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu

The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous

A Single Generosity Enlarges the World.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen

May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde

Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In this world there is always danger
for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale

The difference between what we do
and what we are capable of doing
would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu

No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim

The cleansing fire of Spirit
consumes the troubles of this world.
Feed your concerns to the fire.
Breathe deeply and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau

The world is incomprehensible.
We won't ever understand it;
we won't ever unravel its secrets.
Thus we must treat the world as it is:
a sheer mystery.
- Carlos Castaneda

Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie

Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller

The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard

There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou

The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller

To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing

All the world is full of suffering.
It is also full of overcoming.
- Helen Keller

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.
- William J. Clinton

Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates

The world is perfect the way it is.
- Werner Erhard

The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu

Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono

May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins

The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates

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

We are powerless to redesign the world,
but we have infinite power to create our appreciation of it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Give me a lever long enough
and a fulcrum on which to place it,
and I shall move the world.
- Archimedes

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

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead

God is, even though the whole world deny him.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver

People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel

Go within every day and find the inner strength
so that the world will not blow your candle out.
- Katherine Dunham

No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver

If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates

We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates

We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan

It's not what you take when
you leave this world behind you.
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
- Randy Travis

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie