113 Inner Quotes

Following is our list of inner quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about your inner child.

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Famous Inner Quotes

There are more fake guides, teachers in the world than stars. The real guide is the one who makes you see your inner beauty, not the one who wants to be admired and followed. — Shams Tabrizi

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. — Dalai Lama

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within. — Maya Angelou

What matters is not your outward appearance. . . but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in. — Saint Peter

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. - Kahlil Gibran

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. — Kahlil Gibran

Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation. — Albert Einstein

The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play. — Erik Erikson

True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed. — Dalai Lama

I'm not a handsome guy, but I can give my hand to someone who needs help. Beauty is in the heart, not in the face. — Abdul Kalam

Short Inner Quotes

  • Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more. — Mother Teresa
  • Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength. — Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside. — Coco Chanel
  • Smile doesn't mean that someone is happy. Sometimes it just means that you're strong. — Zayn Malik
  • Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. — Steve Jobs
  • Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. — Steve Jobs
  • This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter. — Yasmin Mogahed
  • Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful. — Sophia Loren
  • Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. — Marcus Aurelius
  • Joy is the evidence of inner growth. — Maria Montessori

Inner Image Quotes

As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin. - Pablo Neruda quote

As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin. — Pablo Neruda

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning. - Walter Gropius quote

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning. — Walter Gropius

Don't believe everything you hear - even in your own mind. - Daniel Amen quote

Don't believe everything you hear - even in your own mind. — Daniel Amen

True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. - Audrey Hepburn quote

True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. — Audrey Hepburn

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. - Denis Waitley quote

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. — Denis Waitley

Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world. - T. Harv Eker quote

Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world. — T. Harv Eker

Laughter is inner jogging. - Norman Cousins quote

Laughter is inner jogging. — Norman Cousins

There's no such thing as too much power! - Wolfgang Gullich quote

There's no such thing as too much power! — Wolfgang Gullich

Inner happiness actually is the fuel of success. - John Hagelin quote

Inner happiness actually is the fuel of success. — John Hagelin

If someone tells you, "You can't" they really mean, "I can't." - Sean Stephenson quote

If someone tells you, "You can't" they really mean, "I can't." — Sean Stephenson

Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life. - Gertrude Stein quote

Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life. — Gertrude Stein

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace. - Alexis Carrel quote

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace. — Alexis Carrel

The most potent muse of all is our own inner child. - Stephen Nachmanovitch quote

The most potent muse of all is our own inner child. — Stephen Nachmanovitch

Inner quote For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

My Inner Child Quotes

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless. - James Broughton

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless. — James Broughton

If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this. — Kitaro Nishida

My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats. — Kenny Loggins

Inner quote We are what we believe we are.
We are what we believe we are.

No. No. I don't listen to anyone except my ... inner child anyway. If someone had said to me, Amy, lose a stone which they wouldn't - I don't think I would have listened anyway. — Amy Winehouse

In my soul, I am still that small child who did not care about anything else but the beautiful colours of a rainbow. — Papiya Ghosh

It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again. — Wynonna Judd

Inner quote You're a work of art. Not everyone will understand you, but the ones who do, will never forget about
You're a work of art. Not everyone will understand you, but the ones who do, will never forget about you.

My inner child is not wounded. — Shannen Doherty

Murphy hung up and I said, to the still-open line, "Hey, if you've got someone watching my place, could you call the cops if anyone tries to steal my Star Wars poster? It's an original." Then I vindictively hung up on the FBI. It made my inner child happy. — Jim Butcher

My new catchphrase is: 'Pull yourself together.' I've done the inner child, I've had analysis, I've decided that unless you're mentally ill and need support, it's up to you. — Sheila Hancock

That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them. — James Gunn

Your Inner Child Quotes

Your soulmate is really this: the person who brings out your inner child. The person who makes you feel so truly safe that the kid inside you can come out. — Brianna Wiest

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals. — Martha Beck

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. — Marianne Williamson

Inner quote The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.
The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

We all have monsters inside of us, and we all have an inner child in us. You always think about your inner child as being the sweet and innocent part of yourself, but it's also the part that's all ego with the mentality of, "If the world isn't pleasing me, it isn't doing its job." — Finn Wittrock

Know that success and inner peace are your birthright, that you are a child of God and as such that you're entitled to a life filled with joy, love and happiness. — Wayne Dyer

It's not an easy course. It's not designed to be. We're not here to get you in touch with your inner child. — James Mattis

Inner quote When you start seeing your worth, you'll find it harder to stay around people who don't.
When you start seeing your worth, you'll find it harder to stay around people who don't.

You playing chess well is just a reflection of your inner thought process and your ability to maintain discipline throughout. If we can teach every child that, then we've taught them to be better people, better friends and better citizens. — Maurice Ashley

Did I hurt your feelings again? Sorry. When this is all over I'll send some flowers to your inner child. — Richard Kadrey

Inner Self Quotes

Listen to the inner light; It will guide you. Listen to the inner Peace; It will feed you. Listen to the inner Love; It will transform you, It will divinise you, It will immortalise you. — Sri Chinmoy

Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance. — Viktor E. Frankl

Patients are patients because they are out of rapport with their own unconscious... Patients are people who have had too much programming - so much outside programming that they have lost touch with their inner selves. — Milton H. Erickson

Inner quote To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.

Integrity is the value we set on ourselves. It is a fulfillment of the duty we owe ourselves. An honorable man or woman will personally commit to live up to certain self-imposed expectations. They need no outside check or control. They are honorable in their inner core. — James E. Faust

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. — Foster C. Mcclellan

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. — August Wilson

Inner quote It is when you finally learn that your  are all in your mind that your real life begins.
It is when you finally learn that your are all in your mind that your real life begins.

There are free men with the spirit of a slave, and slaves whose spirit is full of freedom. He who is true to his inner self is a free man, while he whose entire life is merely a stage for what is good and beautiful in the eyes of others, is a slave. — Abraham Isaac Kook

Everything which you can conceive and accept is yours! Entertain no doubt. Refuse to accept worry or hurry or fear. That which knows and does everything is inside you and harkens to the slightest whisper. — Uell Stanley Andersen

Yet the love we experience through other people is just a shadow of the love of the inner self. There is a sublime place inside us where love dwells. The love that pulses in the cave of the heart does not depend on anything outside. It does not expect anything. It is completely independent. — Swami Muktananda

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness. — Rodney Dangerfield

Inner World Quotes

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. — Saint Francis de Sales

I will tell you one thing that will make you rich for life. There are two struggles: an Inner-world struggle and an Outer-world struggle...you must make an intentional contact between these two worlds; then you can crystallize data for the Third World, the World of the Soul. — G. I. Gurdjieff

Inner quote Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.
Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both. — Emile M. Cioran

I tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is the result of long painting process; every canvas is born during the creative search; every painting is full of my inner world. — Leonid Afremov

We are kept from the experience of Spirit because our inner world is cluttered with past traumas . . . As we begin to clear away this clutter, the energy of divine light and love begins to flow through our being. — Thomas Keating

Inner quote If you want to improve you self-worth, stop giving other people the calculator.
If you want to improve you self-worth, stop giving other people the calculator.

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

Dresden? There is not such a place any longer." "I want to point out, that besides Essen, we never actually considered any particular industrial sites as targets. The destruction of industrial sites always was some sort of bonus for us. Our real targets always were the inner cities. — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness - and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions. — Dale Carnegie

Listen to your own voice, your own soul. Too many people listen to the noise of the world, instead of themselves. — Leon Brown

Inner Growth Quotes

The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success. — Eric Thomas

With the beginning of a great & compassionate love, comes the growth of one's heart, and with that, a profound inner change. The way to opening the mind is often first through the heart. And once is the mind & heart are open, so many things become possible. — Irwin Corey

I want people to find their inner depth. — Wim Hof

Inner quote Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyways.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyways.

One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment. — Robert E. Quinn

Part of being a helathy person is being well integrated and at peace. — Candace Pert

We are living in a time of uncertainty, anxiety, fear, and despair. It is essential that you become aware of the light, power, and strength within each of you, and that you learn to use those inner resources in service of your own and others' growth. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Inner quote Some people feel the rain. Other just get wet.
Some people feel the rain. Other just get wet.

When we are aware of our inner-growth potential yet have no pretensions about ourselves, when we are vulnerable, then we can change. — Amit Goswami

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. — Pearl S. Buck

Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Spiritual growth requires the development of inner knowing and inner authority. It requires the heart, not the intellect. — Gary Zukav

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More Inner Quotes

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. — Albert Schweitzer

I would like to be remembered as someone who accomplished useful deeds, and who was a kind and loving person. I would like to leave the memory of a human being with a correct attitude and who did her best to help others. — Grace Kelly

We all have inner demons to fight, we call these demons, fear and hatred and anger. If you do not conquer them then a life of one hundred years is a tragedy. If you do, then a life of a single day can be a triumph. — Yip Man

Beauty isn't about having a pretty face it's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul. — Unknown Author

I would rather be the child of a mother who has all the inner conflicts of the human being than be mothered by someone for whom all is easy and smooth, who knows all the answers, and is a stranger to doubt. — Donald Woods Winnicott

‘Cause sometimes you just feel tired, feel weak And when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up But you gotta search within you And gotta find that inner strength And just pull that shit out of you And get that motivation to not give up And not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face, and collapse. — Eminem

I say, dress to please yourself. Listen to your inner muse and take a chance. Wear something that says 'Here I am!' today. — Iris Apfel

Most of us are reflecting life and not affecting it. Your inner speech mirrors your mind, and your mind mirrors God. If you do not change your thoughts, you haven't changed their activity. And if you do not change their activity, the conditions of your life cannot change, for they are only bearing witness to the inner action of your mind. — Neville Goddard

In every physical action, unless it is purely mechanical, there is concealed some inner action, some feelings. This is how the two levels of life in a part are created, the inner and the outer. They are intertwined. A common purpose brings them together and reinforces the unbreakable bond. — Constantin Stanislavski

There is no amount of darkness that can extinguish the inner light. The important thing is not to spend our lives trying to control the environment around us. The task is to control the environment within us. — Joan D. Chittister

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible. — Epictetus

If you really want peace of mind and inner calm, you will get it. Regardless of how unjustly you have been treated, or how unfair the boss has been, or what a mean scoundrel someone has proved to be, all this makes no difference to you when you awaken to your mental and spiritual powers. — Joseph Murphy

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