Inward Quotes

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle

Art, Aim, Appearance

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke

Gratitude, Kindness, Feeling

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
B. C. Forbes

Faith, Trust, Hope

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty, Old, Grow

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Power, War, Lies

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Experience, Words, Same

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Soren Kierkegaard

Happiness, Thinking, Him

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Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.
Theodore Parker

Often, Judgment, Fails

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Marcus Aurelius

Power, Live, Soul

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Thomas Carlyle

Mind, Blessing, Fortune

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
Henry Ward Beecher

Wine, Pray, Principle

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
Virginia Woolf

Soul, Show, Once

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.
William James

Heart, Feeling, Laugh

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
Henry Van Dyke

Happiness, Depend, Outward

Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.
Deepak Chopra

Good, Greatest, Passion

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
William Hazlitt

Soul, Grace, Expression

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
William Hazlitt

Soul, Expression, Harmony

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
Meister Eckhart

Work, Great, Outward

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
Ralph Cudworth

Power, Strength, Knowledge

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Live, Songwriter, Tower

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
Francis Schaeffer

Life, True, Christian

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
Rollo May

Freedom, Courage, Battle

The central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull inward; to give when we want to take; to love when we are inclined to hate; to include when are tempted to exclude.
Jon Meacham

Love, Hate, Down

So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.
Mary Oliver

Pray, Flow, Swim

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.
Laurence Olivier

Great, Small, Culture

After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me.
John Woolman

Sadness, Heart, Him

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.
Johannes Tauler

God, Yourself, Ground

We've got to get back on track to working with them. Because if I and my colleagues are going to continue to attract inward investment from overseas - you know particularly from the big Asian countries - they see Britain as a gateway to Europe. They don't want any doubts cast upon that.
Vince Cable

Working, Big, Investment

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 keeping Britain open to inward investors, trade and skilled workers. It means cutting red tape which is suffocating growing companies which create jobs.
Vince Cable

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
Kenneth L. Pike

Success, Failure, May

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