Inward Quotes - Page 10

• The doorway to success swings outward not inward.

  Robin Sharma

  Swings, Doorways

  Robin Sharma (2006). “The Greatness Guide: One of the World's Most Successful Coaches Shares His Secrets for Personal and Business Mastery”, p.100, Jaico Publishing House

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• The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth.

  Meister Eckhart

  Littles, Ifs

  Eckhart (Meister) (1963). “Treatises and sermons of Meister Eckhart”

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• Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.

  Robert Hass

  Golf, Games, People

  Robert Hass (1984). “Twentieth century pleasures: prose on poetry”, Ecco Pr

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• As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Mind, Energy, Stills

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• My grandmother's feet had been bound when she was two years old. Her mother...first wound a piece of white cloth about twenty feet long round her feet, bending all the toes except the big toe inward and under the sole. Then she placed a large stone on top to crush the arch.

  Jung Chang

  Crush, Mother, Years

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• The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions themselves; and much rather would we choose that our reader should clearly understand what our principal actors think than what they do.

  Sarah Fielding

  Thinking, Mind, Fiction

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• Retire from the world each day to some private spot. Stay in the secret place till the surrounding noises begin to fade out of your heart and a sense of God's presence envelops you. Deliberately tune out the unpleasant sounds and come out of your closet determined not to hear them. Listen for the inward voice till you learn to recognize it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Secret Places, Voice

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• I'm not saying there's not darkness in there still, but it's happening from outward factors more than inward. Maybe things are terrifying, but they're beautiful, too. The world is extremely surprising.

  Gary Lightbody

  Beautiful, Darkness, World

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• When one begins to reflect on philosophy—then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical, highly potent, penetrating idea—which ceaselessly drives us inward in all directions. The decision to do philosophy—to seek philosophy is the act of self-liberation—the thrust toward ourselves.

  Novalis

  Philosophy, Ideas, Self

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.48, SUNY Press

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• The more you are called to speak for God's love, the more you will need to deepen the knowledge of that love in your own heart. The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be. Only when your roots are deep can your fruits be abundant.

  Henri Nouwen

  Heart, Journey, Roots

  Henri Nouwen (2010). “The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom”, p.94, Image

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• The God of Christians is a God of love and comfort, a God who fills the soul and heart of those whom he possesses, a God who makes them conscious of their inward wretchedness, and his infinite mercy; who unites himself to their inmost soul, who fills it with humility and joy, with confidence and love, who renders them incapable of any other end than himself.

  Blaise Pascal

  Christian, Heart, Humility

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.186, Cosimo, Inc.

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• And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Flower, Perfection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.118, Рипол Классик

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• Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting.

  Seneca the Younger

  Quality, Looks, Lasting

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• Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all happiness; for riches, power, rank, or whatever, in the common acceptation ofthe word, is supposed to constitute happiness, will never quiet, much less cure, the inward pangs of guilt.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Happiness, Guilt, Foundation

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.313

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• I have never felt any inward assurance of genius, or any presentiment of glory or of happiness. I have never seen myself in imagination great or famous, or even a husband, a father, an influential citizen. This indifference to the future, this absolute self-distrust, are, no doubt, to be taken as signs. What dreams I have are all vague and indefinite; I ought not to live, for I am now scarcely capable of living.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Dream, Husband, Father

  Entry for May 03, 1849, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.

  Philip Sidney

  Envy, House, Palaces

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• Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan
  The outward habit by the inward man.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Fool, Opinion

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed, George Steevens (1809). “Titus Andronicus. Pericles. Glossarial index”, p.171

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• I wanted to go to a place where I could think, really sink into my own imagination, or ride it, or drift along it, as in a balloon. The kind of place that probably all writers crave. The kind of place where the outside world is still and quiet and you get a chance to listen, to peer, to go inward

  Jeanne Marie Laskas

  Thinking, Imagination, Balloons

  Jeanne Marie Laskas (2010). “Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm”, p.84, Bantam

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• True inward quietness ... is not vacancy, but stability - the steadfastness of a single purpose.

  Caroline Emelia Stephen

  Inner Peace, Vacancy, Purpose

  Caroline Emelia Stephen (1908). “Light Arising: Thoughts on the Central Radiance”

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• The psyche is the inward experience of the human body, which is essentially the same in all human beings, with the same organs, the same instincts, the same impulses, the same conflicts, the same fears. Out of this common ground have come what Jung has called the archetypes, which are the common ideas of myths.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ideas, Body, Common

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.60, Anchor

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• Princes have but their titles for their glories,
  An outward honor for an inward toil;
  And, for unfelt imaginations,
  They often feel a world of restless cares.

  William Shakespeare

  Imagination, Honor, Toil

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1848). “1847. Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus”, p.35

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• Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of great dangers are used to produce. And by this inward strength it is that heroes preserve themselves in a calm and quiet state, and enjoy a presence of mind and the free use of their reason in the midst of those terrible accidents that amaze and confound other people.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hero, Presence Of Mind, People

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• If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Happiness, Grief, Would Be

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• Meditation is valuable for all of humanity because it involves looking inward. People don't have to be religious to look inside themselves more carefully. It is constructive and worthwhile to analyze our emotions, including compassion and our sense of caring, so that we can become more calm and happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Caring, Compassion

  Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

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• Both above and below, without and within, which way so ever thou dost turn thee, everywhere thou shalt find the Cross; and everywhere of necessity thou must hold fast patience, if thou wilt have inward peace, and enjoy an everlasting crown.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Peace, Crowns, Way

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