Definition of Internal

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Internal

Inward; interior; being within any limit or surface; inclosed; -- opposed to external; as, the internal parts of a body, or of the earth.

Derived from, or dependent on, the thing itself; inherent; as, the internal evidence of the divine origin of the Scriptures.

Pertaining to its own affairs or interests; especially, (said of a country) domestic, as opposed to foreign; as, internal trade; internal troubles or war.

Pertaining to the inner being or the heart; spiritual.

Intrinsic; inherent; real.

Lying toward the mesial plane; mesial.

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Internal Quotations

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
Tony Robbins

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
W. Clement Stone

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
Lao Tzu

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
James Madison

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
James Madison

External nature is only internal nature writ large.
Swami Vivekananda

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.
Zora Neale Hurston

Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality.
Gottfried Leibniz

Internal Translations

internal in Danish is indre
internal in Dutch is binnenste, intern, binnenlands
internal in German is intern, intern, interne, innerbetrieblich
internal in Italian is nazionale
internal in Latin is intestina-us-um, penitus
internal in Norwegian is innvendig, indre
internal in Portuguese is interno
internal in Spanish is interna, interno, vernaculo, interior

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