Outside Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old outside quotes, outside sayings, and outside proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. Marcus Aurelius
The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. Bruce Lee
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping . Dale Carnegie
The fruit does not come from the outside, the fruit is created within you. Whatever you do, you develop receptivity for it inside yourself. Someone who wants love should give his love. Someone who wants bliss should start sharing his bliss. Someone who wants flowers to shower in his home should shower flowers in other people's homes. There is no other way. So compassion is an emotion that each person has to develop in order to enter into meditation. Rajneesh
No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free. Gautama Buddha
We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison. Frank Lloyd Wright
Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer. Eckhart Tolle
You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece. Albert Einstein
Those who look outside, dream. Those who look inside, awaken. Carl Jung
The world you see outside of you will always be a reflection of what you have inside of you. Cory Booker
It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box. Tim Ferriss
Don't judge from the outside. Like any beautiful rose has thorns... the more a person appears nice on the outside, the more you should doubt the inside. Gosho Aoyama
The biggest rewards in life are found outside your comfort zone. Live with it. Fear and risk are prerequisites if you want to enjoy a life of success and adventure. Jack Canfield
A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words. Thomas Huxley
Adventure is not outside man; it is within. George Eliot
If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts. Thomas Merton
Never let the darkness or negativity outside affect your inner self. Just wait until morning comes and the bright light will drown out the darkness. Haruki Murakami
There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God. U.G. Krishnamurti
The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent’s heart bared, beating forever outside its chest. Debra Ginsberg
Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it that is what you compare it to;- something better and you'll feel worse; something worse and you'll feel better. Thaddeus Golas
The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream. We are all interconnected, and what you do to the environment ultimately you do to yourself. Ian Somerhalder
Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you Jim Rohn
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts. Albert Einstein
God cannot be found outside you, because there is no God who can ever be outside you. God is the ultimate fragrance of your consciousness. When your consciousness opens like a lotus, the fragrance that is released is God - better to call it godliness. Rajneesh
Everything you desire is outside your comfort zone - otherwise, you would already have it. Zan Perrion