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

Every burned book enlightens the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Aristotle

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
Aristotle

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
Aristotle

Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
Jack Welch

Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.
Jack Welch

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
Erma Bombeck

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
Erma Bombeck

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Henry David Thoreau

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
Henry David Thoreau

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.
Henry David Thoreau

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
Henry David Thoreau

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
Henry David Thoreau

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