Within Quotes

Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.

~ Henry A. Wallace

All serious daring starts from within.

~ Eudora Welty

No one can come and claim ownership of my work. I am the creator of it, and it lives within me.

~ Prince

Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.

~ Bhumibol Adulyadej

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.

~ John James Audubon

The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.

~ Rupert Sheldrake

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

~ Leon Battista Alberti

There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

~ Rumi

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

~ Baltasar Gracián

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

~ George Macdonald

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

~ Brigitte Bardot

There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.

~ Susan Anton

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

~ Soren Kierkegaard

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

~ Blaise Pascal

Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

~ Andrew Weil

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

~ Prem Rawat

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

~ Franz Kafka

All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition.

~ Theodore Dalrymple

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

~ Margaret Mead

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.

~ Elizabeth Fishel

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

~ Thomas Hardy

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

~ Honoré De Balzac

Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best.

~ Juliette Gordon Low

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

~ Martin Heidegger

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

~ Saint Augustine

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

~ Charles Darwin

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

~ Alphonsus Liguori

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

~ A. R. Rahman

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.

~ Zhuangzi

If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against the revolted Bactrians; but if we pass Tanais and make the Scythians feel, by dear experience, that we are invincible, not in Asia only, it is not to be doubted but that Europe itself, as well as Asia, will come within the bounds of our conquests.

~ Alexander The Great

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

~ Martin Luther

Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership.

~ Timothy Noah

Medical professionals are as skilled and as dedicated as any, but they operate within a fragmented system that has not progressed as far as we have in aviation.

~ Chesley Sullenberger

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

~ Henry St. John

The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

~ Yehudi Menuhin

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

~ Seamus Heaney