Quotes About Outward

A great deal of our suffering arises because we are conflicted about reputation. Instead of being concerned about the reality of what we are, we're concerned about what other people think of us. We're too outward looking. That's incredible. As far as Buddhism is concerned, that's a sick mind; totally, clinically sick.

My mom used to tell me: 'It's not what you weigh it's what you look like.'

The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game.

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it gets so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

The difference between a genius and an ordinary man is this - the one lives in inward realities, the other in outward appearances; the one goes after pleasure, the other after wisdom; the one relies on books, the other relies upon his own being. Book-learning is good when its true place is understood, but is not the source of wisdom. The source of wisdom is in life itself, and is comprehended by effort, practice, and experience.

Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation.

Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.

Everything starts from inside of us, then comes outside of us.

A lot of people perceive women as sexy based on their outer appeal. But there's no way to mistake if a woman is confident.

Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one.

It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

And what is it, thought I, after all! It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.

Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands.

Neglect of appearance becomes men.

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

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

Simply stated, your church will not likely be ready for change until it experiences some action steps of an outward focus.

This outward focus prepares the members for change. It gets them looking beyond their own needs to the needs of their community and the world.

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.

Therefore, neither confide in nor depend upon a wind-shaken reed, for "all flesh is grass" and all its glory, like the flower of grass, will fade away. You will quickly be deceived if you look only to the outward appearance of men, and you will often be disappointed if you seek comfort and gain in them.

Faith is the soul looking upward to God, hope is looking forward to the future, and love is looking outward to others.