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Famous Inner Quotes

You must train your intuition -- you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide. β€” Ingrid Bergman

Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path. β€” Henry Winkler

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something. β€” Meredith Monk

Somewhere inside, we hear a voice. It leads us in the direction of the person we wish to become. But it is up to us whether or not to follow. β€” Pat Tillman

The voice you believe will determine the future you experience β€” Steven Furtick

The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice. β€” Cecilia Bartoli

The voice that U hear is the alchemy of Ur mind. β€” Prince

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. - Plato

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. β€” Plato

Thinking is the soul talking to itself. - Plato

Thinking is the soul talking to itself. β€” Plato

Train yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what's important and what's not. β€” Sue Grafton

Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen. β€” Vernon Howard

When the voice and the vision on the inside is more profound, and more clear and loud than all opinions on the outside, you've begun to master your life. β€” Dr. John

Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listening to your inner voice. β€” Shunryu Suzuki

Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God. β€” Maya Angelou

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls β€” Friedrich Nietzsche

Short Inner Quotes

  • Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. β€” Dalai Lama
  • Nothing can dim the light which shines from within. β€” Maya Angelou
  • Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. β€” Kahlil Gibran
  • Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more. β€” Mother Teresa
  • Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength. β€” Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside. β€” Coco Chanel
  • Smile doesn't mean that someone is happy. Sometimes it just means that you're strong. β€” Zayn Malik
  • Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. β€” Steve Jobs
  • Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. β€” Steve Jobs
  • This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter. β€” Yasmin Mogahed

Inner Image Quotes

Joy is the evidence of inner growth. - Maria Montessori quote

Joy is the evidence of inner growth. β€” Maria Montessori

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. β€” 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. β€” Walter Gropius

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

True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. β€” Audrey Hepburn

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

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

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

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. β€” 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. β€” T. Harv Eker

Laughter is inner jogging. - Norman Cousins quote

Laughter is inner jogging. β€” Norman Cousins

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

There's no such thing as too much power! β€” Wolfgang Gullich

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

Inner happiness actually is the fuel of success. β€” 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." β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” 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.

Listen To Your Inner Voice 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. β€” Sri Chinmoy

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

Don't die with your music (stories/talents) still inside you. Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your soul. β€” Wayne Dyer

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

If you must have a rule to follow, I would suggest cultivating a dialogue with your inner voice... If you listen to the clues your own images offer, the resulting work will be fresh, and authentic. Fall in love with your world. β€” Jane Fulton Alt

If you have some idea you believe in, don't listen to the croaking chorus. Listen only to what your own inner voice tells you. β€” Dale Carnegie

If, on the other hand, you listen to your own inner voice, to your own inner wisdom, which is far greater than anyone else's as far as you are concerned, you will not go wrong, and you will know what to do with your life. Then time is no longer relevant. β€” Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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.

I'm a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I've always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to. β€” Tom Ford

When you're writing you're constantly fighting demons to sit down and do what you do. If you listen to the voices outside your head, in addition to the ones inside your head, you'll never get anything done. There's enough inner strife. β€” Melissa Rosenberg

My message is believe in yourself. Have courage in your capacity. Listen to your inner voice. And then the critical component of all this is, do the work. β€” Brad Willis

Always listen to your inner voice. β€” Oprah Winfrey

Trust Your Inner Voice Quotes

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. β€” Steve Jobs

Do not believe in me or any other teacher, rather trust in your own inner voice. This is your guide, this is your teacher. Your teacher is within not without. Know yourself, not me! β€” Peace Pilgrim

And first and foremost, think straight, trust the quiet inner voice that tells you what to do. You hold your life in your hands, don't entrust it to anyone else, least of all to your chosen leaders. BE YOURSELF! Any number of great men have told you that. β€” Wilhelm Reich

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

When you're in transition, you will need to find a different kind of security. It's not one of labels, guarantees or bank balances. It's guidance - the directions of your own inner voice. Moment by moment you know what to do. You are safer than ever before. β€” Tama J. Kieves

The only damn thing I ever learned in all my years in art school was a piece is never done, it is just finished. You have to trust your inner voice, your instincts, when they tell you pencils down. And you roll up your sleeves and you start over again. β€” Sayings

As I look back I know that most of the mistakes I have made have come when I didn't listen to myself, when I didn't trust my instincts... I believe you need to listen, carefully, to hear your inner voice. And then, you have to do what it says. β€” Christine Todd Whitman

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.

Learn to listen and trust your inner voice β€” Osho

Listen to your inner voice. Trust your intuition. It's important to have the courage to trust yourself. β€” Dawn Ostroff

You can live a life of either trusting your inner voice or distrusting your inner voice. You can cling to familiar expectations, conventions, and "reasonable" responses or you can listen to the sweet madness in your bones. β€” Tama J. Kieves

To find your angels... Start trusting your inner voice and intuition β€” Melanie

Your Inner Voice Quotes

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

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

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

If there is one thing that will change your life forever, it is recognizing that the voice talking to you is not you! β€” Mo Gawdat

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.

Never forget the morals instilled in you and what really matters in Life. Never let other voices of other people drown out your inner voice β€” Trey Songz

Don't be trapped by dogma β€” which is living with the results of other people's thinking. β€” Steve Jobs

Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that. β€” Hermann Hesse

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.

If you don’t know what you are going to think next, how can you say that the voice in your head is you? β€” Chris Williamson

The ego constantly competes with the spirit for control over your inner voice. β€” Darren Johnson

It’s helpful to turn those voices down so you can hear the chimes of the cosmic clock ring, reminding you it’s time. Your time to participate. β€” Rick Rubin

Each businessperson must find a style, that voice that grows clearer and louder with each success and failure. Observing your own and your competitors’ successes and failures makes your inner business voice more sure and vivid. β€” Estee Lauder

Listen To Inner Voice Quotes

The Voice There is a voice inside of you That whispers all day long, "I feel this is right for me, I know that this is wrong." No teacher, preacher, parent, friend Or wise man can decide What's right for you--just listen to The voice that speaks inside. β€” Shel Silverstein

I never violate an inner rhythm. I loathe to force anything. I don't know if the inner rhythm is Eastern or Western. I know it is essential for me. I listen to it and I stay with it. I have always been this way. I have regards for the inner voice. β€” Lee Krasner

There are certain times when I feel more inspired, filled with a strong power that forces me to listen to my inner voice, and when I feel more need than ever for a Pleyel piano. β€” Frederic Chopin

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

We women must listen to our inner voice. It is easier for women to do this as they are not afraid to say what they feel. β€” Indra Devi

I listened to that voice inside me-... Everyone has an inner voice; you just have to listen to it and trust it in order to be led by it. I did that, and it gave me the ability to live a life that's true to who I am and what I really wanted. β€” Sissy Spacek

Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure. β€” Naveen Jain

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.

We all have that inner voice that is wise, even if we don't always follow it. It's that voice I'm trying to listen to. β€” Ray LaMontagne

The life of the consciousness is boundless. It interpenetrates the world and is woven in all its imagery. Therefore, we must listen closely to our inner voice. β€” Oskar Kokoschka

I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice... if it doesn't lead to a crime β€” Lisa Kudrow

But I'm not ready to stop listening to the screwed-up inner voice that's been ordering me around for a lifetime. My head thinks it can kill me... and go on living without me. β€” Mary Karr

Inner Self Quotes

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

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. β€” 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. β€” Milton H. Erickson

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.

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. β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” August Wilson

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

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. β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” Swami Muktananda

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness. β€” Rodney Dangerfield

Inner Life 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. β€” Albert Schweitzer

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. β€” Yip Man

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

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. β€” Constantin Stanislavski

I've been accused of being cold, snobbish, distant. Those who know me well know that I’m nothing of the sort. If anything, the opposite is true. But is it too much to ask to want to protect your private life, your inner feelings? Lots of things touch me and I don’t want to be indiscreet. β€” Grace Kelly

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. β€” Karen Horney

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. β€” Marcus Aurelius

Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. β€” Buddha

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down β€˜happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. β€” John Lennon

If we grow wiser and more learned in our intercourse with wise and learned persons, how much more will we gain in our inner life by communing with God in prayer. β€” Huldrych Zwingli

Inner World 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. β€” Shams Tabrizi

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. β€” Paramahansa Yogananda

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful. β€” Sophia Loren

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. β€” 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. β€” G. I. Gurdjieff

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. β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” Thomas Keating

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. β€” 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. β€” Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

Inner Peace Quotes

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. β€” Dalai Lama

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. β€” Joseph Murphy

Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that. β€” Imelda Staunton

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean. β€” Paramahansa Yogananda

Go with the wind, you know, like a sailboat. I think that's really important when it comes to peace… inner peace especially. You can't help anyone else if you don't have it together for yourself. β€” Jhene Aiko

Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform. β€” Pythagoras

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything. β€” Anne Sullivan Macy

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. β€” Dalai Lama

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. β€” Marcus Aurelius

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. β€” Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Inner Journey Quotes

One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings. β€” Satish Kumar

The members of the Atlantean Mystery School were the earliest human explorers of the frontiers of inner space. Through their meditative journeys and explorations, they discovered many secret astral passageways that led to an infinite variety of other worlds and dimensions. β€” Frederick Lenz

The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both. β€” Thomas Merton

Singleness would be recognized as a vital stage of the journey to maturation, a time to learn about who we are, to learn responsibility and self-sufficiency, to identify our true desires, and to confront our inner strengths and demons. β€” Harville Hendrix

The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart. β€” Haruki Murakami

Not all meanings are meant to be clear at once. Some ideas take time. Some words are designed to lead us on inner journeys, with truth hidden deep inside them. β€” Brian Froud

Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. β€” Dalai Lama

Surrender is a journey from the outer turmoil to the inner peace. β€” Sri Chinmoy

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle. β€” Rollo May

A Quest of any kind is a heroic journey. It is a rite of passage that carries you to an inner place of silence and majesty and encourages you to live life more courageously and genuinely. β€” Denise Linn

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

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

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. β€” Abdul Kalam

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. β€” Grace Kelly

Beauty isn't about having a pretty face it's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul. β€” 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. β€” Donald Woods Winnicott

β€˜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. β€” Eminem

I say, dress to please yourself. Listen to your inner muse and take a chance. Wear something that says 'Here I am!' today. β€” 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. β€” Neville Goddard

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. β€” 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. β€” Epictetus

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