Abraham Lincoln
Political Leader
"Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness."
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Internals
56 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor."
Stephen Covey
Author, Speaker
"Internal victories precede external victories."
Claude Bernard
Physiologist
"All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment."
Abraham Maslow
Psychologist
"Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction."
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"External nature is only internal nature writ large."
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"He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant."
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"Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you."
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"I am a mystic and am directed by an internal compass. I am not outer-directed."
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"You can redefine your external world by an internal experience with the love of God."
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"Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which pulls you forward."
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"You have an internal critic, an internal drive that says, 'OK, you can do more.' Maybe that's what keeps you going."
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"We are not the ones who create revolutions. It is the imperialist system and its allies, internal allies, the ones who create revolution."
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"If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe."
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"Memory... is an internal rumor."
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"Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert."
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"Every cell is eavesdropping on your internal dialogue."
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"On your life, underestimating the proclivities of finches is likely to lead to great internal hemorrhaging."
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"The only antidote to anger is to eliminate the internal sentence: "If only you were more like me.""
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"I get very involved in the internal logic of sentences."
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"External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought."
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"The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause."
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"Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him."
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"The external freedom won't be given to us but in the exact measure as we've known at a given moment, to developing our internal freedom."
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