Excellence Within Reach

“Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach."
--John W. Gardner

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Spoiled Society

“A spoiled society begins to rot from within.”
--William Ophuls

Destroyed from Within

“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within.”
--Will Durant

Expel Evil

“It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.”
--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Courage over Doubt

“Courage is the ability to take action even when storms of doubt rage within.”
--Claire Fox

Escape Anxiety

“Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions, not outside.”
--Marcus Aurelius

National Survival

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.”
--Marcus Tullius Cicero

Danger from Within

“From the earliest ages of history to the present day there never have been a people associated in one political body who enjoyed so much freedom and happiness as the people of these United States. You have no longer any cause to fear danger from abroad. It is from within, among yourselves - from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power.”
--Andrew Jackson

Monsters Within

“Fighting external monsters is easy in comparison to how we fight those within us.”
--Jeffrey Fry

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Healthy America

“America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.”
--Joseph Stalin

America Destroyed

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we lose our freedoms it will be because we have destroyed ourselves from within.”
--Unknown (misattributed to Abraham Lincoln)

Lead from Within

“A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.”
--M. D. Arnold

Gift of Miracles

“Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within them the gift of miracles.”
--Samuel Smiles

Stirring Within

“Experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.”
--Sonia Sotomayor

Respect Thyself

“Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within.”
--Steven H. Coogler

Do Not Seek Love

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
--Jalal-al-Din Rumi

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Lies Within

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hidden Suffering

“To keep one's suffering under lock and key is to risk being eaten from within.”
--Frida Kahlo

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Heart On Fire

“When the heart is on fire, light comes from within.”
--Tania Silva

Look Within

“Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.”
--Marcus Aurelius