Outward Quotes

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

Art, Aim, Appearance

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love, Together, Same

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
William Shakespeare

May, Him, Within

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty, Gift, Except

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
Jean de La Fontaine

Men, Live, Long

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Happy, Habit, Conditions

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Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.
Theodore Parker

Often, Judgment, Fails

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Heart, Behavior

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. The essence does not change.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Change, Everything, Same

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

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
Henry Ward Beecher

Success, Secret, Ideas

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
Thomas Carlyle

Person, Soul, Force

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
Soren Kierkegaard

Good, Great, Death

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
Ambrose Bierce

Experience, Small, Youth

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Peace, Ourselves, Within

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Love, Sunshine, Heart

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 grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Men, Society, Important

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, Inward

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

Real, Farewell, Small

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
Edward Hopper

Life, Great, Art

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

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'
Jimmy Carter

Strength, Teacher, School

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

Work, Great, Inward

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
John Bunyan

Minds, Quiet, Comfort

The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.
Meister Eckhart

Door, Inner, Swinging

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
J. Donald Walters

Happiness, Attitude, Happy

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and.
Jonathan Edwards

Religion, Men, Down

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.
Aesop

Mind, Appearance

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
Oswald Chambers

Spiritual, Actual, Unseen

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