Top 100 Quotes About Outward
#1. There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#2. What you radiate outward in your thoughts, feelings, mental pictures and words, you attract into your life.
Catherine Ponder
#3. But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.
William Ellery Channing
#4. 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 than that?
Hilary Swank
#5. The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.
Paul Auster
#6. My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.
Warwick Davis
#7. Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,
the human soul!
James Russell Lowell
#8. I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think? Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes, yes, yes.
Hanif Kureishi
#9. It is not in understanding a set of doctrines; not in outward comprehension of the "scheme of salvation," that rest and peace are to be found, but in taking up, in all lowliness and meekness, the yoke of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Frederick William Robertson
#10. Pain makes humans selfish. Blocked off. Focused inward instead of outward.
Tarryn Fisher
#11. Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetrate the material universe. Veias, Menu, Zoroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,
these are some of our astronomers.
Henry David Thoreau
#12. All outward actions are worthless while our hearts be not right with God.
Arthur W. Pink
#13. For according to the outward man, we are in this world, and according to the inward man, we are in the inward world.... Since then we are generated out of both worlds, we speak in two languages, and we must be understood also by two languages.
Jakob Bohme
#14. The ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the universe - these concepts have become important to me, and I hope they're at work in my life on a minute-by-minute basis.
John Green
#15. What matters is not your outward appearance ... but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in.
Saint Peter
#16. In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
#17. Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart" (1 Sam. 16:7).
Vicki Courtney
#18. Wear modest, clean clothing. Your clothing doesn't need to be new and [it] should have some fashion of course, but [it] should be clean, modest, and neat. Be dignified in your outward manner and in your inward morality.
Bruce R. McConkie
#19. The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.
Henry David Thoreau
#20. Outward change comes after we change from within
Bob Proctor
#21. In a blacked-out house, stripped of all comforts, it's easy to turn your anger outward, to attack this city he's lying at the center of, with its filth and its pollution and its oppression, but really, New York is the only thing that's never abandoned him.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#22. Tattoos to me are the outward symbol of the inward change within my soul.
Nicolas Cage
#24. Identifying someone by his, or her, outward appearance is often the first and most common error in the world
Sunday Adelaja
#25. As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.
Sonia Sotomayor
#26. Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?
Charles Stross
#28. Almost everyone nowadays is on the wrong track in their pursuit of
happiness. They think a great deal about having and receiving, about
outward show and success and being served by others. That is what most
people call fulfillment.
True fulfillment, though, lies in giving and serving.
Paulo Coelho
#29. Law is for the society; love is for the individual. Law is how you behave with others; love is how you behave with yourself. Love is an inner flowering; law is an outward performance. Because you live with people you have to be lawful, but that is not enough - good, but not enough.
Rajneesh
#30. Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
Henry Van Dyke
#31. Manner is personality - the outward manifestation of one's innate character and attitude toward life.
Emily Post
#32. We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.
Leon Jouhaux
#33. If a sight of Christ's outward glory might give a rational assurance of His divinity, why might not an apprehension of He is spiritual glory do so too?
Jonathan Edwards
#34. What do we have to achieve? Not your position, not your wealth, not all these outward things, but you have to achieve a loving heart.
Nirmala Srivastava
#35. To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.
Thomas Carlyle
#36. 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.
Joseph Campbell
#37. Saddest of all God's creatures in the world is the religious person who has disciplined himself to outward obedience but who has no inward love to God.
Walter Chantry
#38. Nothing is more difficult to accomplish than changing outward actions without changing inward feelings.
John C. Maxwell
#39. Ultimately a life message shouts more clearly and loudly than a brand message. Your image may communicate an outward brand, but your life shouts the real inner message.
Kerry Shook
#40. Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day.
Etty Hillesum
#41. Bishop Hostettler explained that baptism was not the means by which one is saved, but simply an outward sign of salvation. Just as an Amishman's beard is an indication of his marriage and commitment to his wife, so baptism symbolizes our covenant with Christ.
J.E.B. Spredemann
#42. There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
John Stuart Mill
#43. True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it a separation between outward action and a flat repose inwardly.
Eli Siegel
#44. Religion that does not inspire
outward compassion and inward awakening
is not religion.
Ivan M. Granger
#45. There was something spiritual in this, as if my soul had clenched and expanded and coruscated outward to find Shane's own essence, and together they braided, tangled, and twined into something other.
Jasinda Wilder
#46. Our minds hurtled outward in all directions. We became absurdly creative, Homo artifactus, intolerant of bare cave walls and naked clay pots.
Natalie Angier
#47. The salat can be made up for, but there is no making up for false show or outward worship without presence.
Shams Tabrizi
#48. One important difference between the two states is that Pakistan's domestic and external policies are more entwined than those of India, partly because of Pakistan's more perilous geostrategic position and partly because the dominant Pakistan army looks both inward and outward.
Stephen Philip Cohen
#49. Just as the roads at Moscow's heart flow out in concentric ripples from the Kremlin, so this tension too seems to radiate from those secret and formidable walls, lapping outward to the suburbs and to the farthest confines of the Soviet Union itself, in ever-weakening but pervasive rings.
Colin Thubron
#50. God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same.
Iris Murdoch
#51. Horace Dinsmore was, like his father, an upright, moral man, who paid an outward respect to the forms of religion, but cared nothing for the vital power of godliness ...
Martha Finley
#52. I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about the outward signs of whatever's happening - you have the end result. Whereas in a novel you get a buildup of the whys and wherefores, and you're let into the backstory.
Alison Pill
#53. Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works.
James Mackintosh
#54. You see with your eyes. This means you can be misled by charm, by outward appearance. By webs of glamour, by surface pretences. I do not see with my eyes. I see good and I see evil. Nothing else.
Neil Gaiman
#55. Up and down, good and bad, sacred and profane: these are all assumed. But inward and outward: this is the one context we are sure of, the one context we can work with. This is Adiyogi's most significant contribution to humankind and it is a profound and enduring one: "The only way out is in." Once
Sadhguru
#56. This focusing outward ... painful as it was, saved her from a more intolerable examination.
M.L. Stedman
#57. False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes - whereas the only liberty that a man, worthy of the name of man, ought to ask for, is, to have all restrictions, inward and outward, removed that prevent his doing what he ought.
Frederick William Robertson
#58. Every outward behavior has a core belief. Jesus dealt with both. The
Rob Ketterling
#59. In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.
Jack Kornfield
#60. Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
J. Donald Walters
#61. If we want to change our world, we do not begin by rectifying the outward. Instead, we must change the condition of our inward.
Hamza Yusuf
#62. The only true hope for civilization-the conviction of the individual that his inner life can affect outward events and that, whether or not he does so he is responsible for them.
Stephen Spender
#63. All outward means of grace, if separate from the spirit of God, cannot profit, or conduce, in any degree, either to the knowledge or love of God. All outward things, unless he work in them and by them, are in vain.
John Wesley
#64. It's easier in an urban world to cast the blame outward. So I've learned a lot about my own process in that way.
Dani Shapiro
#65. But deep down she said to herself, Franz may be strong, but his strength is directed outward; when it comes to the people he lives with, the people he loves, he's weak. Franz's weakness is called goodness.
Milan Kundera
#66. The power of the Web is obvious and undeniable. We diminish it at our peril. But what if the most potent social effect to spread outward from the Internet turns out to be disinhibition, the breaking down of personal restraints and the endless elevation of oneself? It may be already.
Daniel Henninger
#67. My insides turn outward in acknowledgement of your absence. My heart slips out of my chest and down into my gut.
Coco J. Ginger
#68. There are many levels of life which we cannot see and know, yet which certainly exist. There is a larger world, vast enough to include immortality ... Our spiritual natures belong to this larger world ... If death is apparently an outward fact, immortality is an inner certainty.
Manly Hall
#69. It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land of the Pashtuns, where desertification proceeds at a steady, implacable crawl even in the consciences and intellects of men.
Yasmina Khadra
#70. The lessons are in the quest. The answers are found in the journey. These are ripples on a pond. They spread outward. And on we walk ...
Thomas Norman DeWolf
#71. The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so that insincerity becomes permanent.
Anthony Daniels
#72. A man's attire is only an outward projection of his inward self ...
Chris Brown
#73. The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#74. Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It's lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It's higher thought and a greater plan. It's glorious dream in the soul of man.
Wilferd Peterson
#75. The Tantric sages tell us that our in-breath and out-breath actually mirror the divine creative gesture. With the inhalation, we draw into our own center, our own being. With the exhalation, we expand outward into the world.
Sally Kempton
#76. Proofs of the "truth" always start from the center of one's own religion and work outward. The result is a biased way of thinking which we are brought up to accept from childhood. Nevertheless generations lived and still do live in the conviction that they possess the "truth.
Erich Von Daniken
#77. A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular.
Thomas A Kempis
#78. In choosing a bare bones existence, we are enriched, and can redefine success as an internal process rather than an outward display of wealth and power.
Kathleen Norris
#79. The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.
Honore De Balzac
#80. Don't let anything poison your individuality. Break away & look in, not outward.
Rodney Mullen
#81. But as the years passed, Ned's silence grew and grew. It pressed upon his face and his body. It leaked into the house and spread outward into the yard. His silence had weight. It had substance and presence and teeth.
Kelly Barnhill
#82. To have the detached eye of the occultist, to look outward, to not be so self-reflective and to learn to step through the various viewpoints of consciousness - that we call occultism - leads to freedom.
Frederick Lenz
#83. The action of Mind (thought) plants that nucleus which, if allowed to grow undisturbed, will eventually attract to itself all the conditions necessary for its manifestation in outward visible form.
Thomas Troward
#84. I'd start to explain with the outward sheepish and inner pride of the nerd.
Robert Lane Greene
#85. The secret to teamwork is an outward mindset.
Steve Young
#86. Labour's task for government is to build consent for an outward-looking Britain as the best way to advance not just our interests, but also our values at a time of challenge, both at home and abroad.
Douglas Alexander
#87. Our names are an integral part of the faces we show to the world. If we're judged first on outward appearances, we're assessed next on our names.
Sharon Bolton
#88. The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.
Meister Eckhart
#89. Now perhaps an excessive dread of overpopulation
overcrowding
reflects not an outward reality, but an inward state of mind. If you feel overcrowded when you're not, what does that mean? Maybe that you're afraid of human contact
of being close to people, of being touched.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#90. The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
Meister Eckhart
#91. Nothing but a speck we seem In the waste of waters round, Floating, floating like a dream, Outward bound.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#92. While you judge me by my outward appearance I am silently doing the same to you, even though there's a ninety-percent chance that in both cases our assumptions are wrong.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#93. Expansive," he says to the empty room, but it's more than that. "Outward. This guy writes outward. He learned with others. And wrote for others.
Stephen King
#94. Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.
Jonathan Miller
#95. 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 truth every night.
Amber Benson
#96. Faith is the deep want of the soul. We have faculties for the spiritual, as truly as for the outward world. God, the foundation of all existence, may become to the mind the most real of all beings. The believer feels himself resting on an everlasting foundation.
William Henry Channing
#97. Her lack of outward expression was similar to the way a thermos is never hot on the outside: No matter what was going on inside, it never affected the surface.
Otsuichi
#98. Design can be both a manifestation of a company's design ethic and an outward communication of a company's design ethic and drive for excellence.
Bob Lutz
#99. Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan the outward habit by the inward man.
William Shakespeare
#100. And I wondered then, how do we ever know what beauty lies inside of people, and the strange ways this world works to lure that beauty outward?
Douglas Coupland
