Outward Quotes

521 Outward quotes by 389 unique authors

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side! — William Shakespeare
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. — Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes.… — Robert Louis Stevenson
It's how you look at beauty. Is it only an outward appearance with hair and makeup and a hot body, or is it something deeper… — Hilary Swank
A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises. — Johannes Tauler
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without… — Kurt Vonnegut
Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking. — Quentin Crisp
The outward manifestations of an inner combustion are never very directed. — Nick Hornby
The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual… — Joyce Carol Oates
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. — Leo Tolstoy
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality.… — Camille Paglia
...I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself. I want a… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
...once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us, the labyrinth is fully known;… — Joseph Campbell
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs… — William Shakespeare
God sweetens outward pain with inward peace. — Thomas Watson
for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity. — Mark Twain
Satan can control you if you let outward things determine your security. — Joyce Meyer
There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the… — Amber Benson
But deep down she said to herself, Franz maybe strong, but his strength is directed outward; when it comes to the people he lives with,… — Milan Kundera
It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the silver line like… — Janet Fitch
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. — Benjamin Franklin
Appreciation is the purest,strongest form of love. It is the outward-bound kind of love that asks for nothing and gives everything. — Kelly Corrigan

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389 authors contributed a total of 521 Outward Quotes, led by these top contributors: