Inward Quotes - Page 5

A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.

Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.

In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts.

Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?

Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.

One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.

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

Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.

His high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright.

Gaze Upward, Look Inward, Reach Outward, Press Forward.

The doorway to success swings outward not inward.

Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty

Our grandfathers lived in a world of largely self-sufficient, inward-looking national economies - but our great-great grandfathers lived, as we do, in a world of large-scale international trade and investment, a world destroyed by nationalism.

There never was a war that was not inward.

The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps the most useful thing I have learned in my lifetime is that the process of maturing gradually turns the mind away from the small-self to the greater-self that is only served by serving others.

No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.

The ground of being is the ground of our being, and when we simply turn outward, we see all of these little problems here and there. But, if we look inward, we see that we are the source of them all.

What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.

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.

Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there.

The Holy Ghost is the greatest guarantor of inward peace in our unstable world.

We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.

As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man's external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse, given through one of the three functions named, so with the external or manifested Universe.