Inward Quotes

476 Inward quotes by 347 unique authors

Faith is the sight of the inward eye. — Alexander MacLaren
A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him. — Wilhelm von Humboldt
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success. — Kenneth Lee Pike
The clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in… — Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can tighten their belts, every program administrator must look inward… — Michael Enzi
Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love. — Susan Cain
My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means… — Vince Cable
I think people are turning inward more now cause the world's got in such a weird, crazy state. I think its making people think more… — Dave Davies
Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve. — Rodney Crowell
This violent rage that turned inward cannot be helped by drink. — Lou Reed
Time to go inward would you believe that I'm afraid to stare down the barrel of choices I have made. — Rodney Crowell
I am old, and death inevitably approaches. But both birth and death are beyond the will of a human being. They are not my domain.… — B.K.S. Iyengar
All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society. — Alexander Crummell
When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil. — Abdullah ibn Alawi al-Haddad
Grace is the outcome of inward harmony. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is no virtue which does not rejoice a well-descended nature; there is a kind of I know not what congratulation in well-doing, that gives… — Michel de Montaigne
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books… — Pearl S. Buck
If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., Se a ciascun l'interno affanno… — Pietro Metastasio
The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,… — William Shakespeare
The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is.… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat — Thomas Hood
No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as… — Arthur Koestler

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