Burning Inside Quotes:

The key to motivation is motive.

- Stephen Covey

source: Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

topic: Motivation, Keys, Motive, Burning Inside

There's such a fierce intense fire burning inside of me, so much that it just wants to explode.

- GG Allin

source: "The Jane Whitney Show", July 16, 1993.

topic: Fire, Burning, Want, Fire Burning, Burning Inside

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

- Carl Jung

source: Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

topic: Life, Beautiful, Dream, Soul Life, Source Of Life

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Love, Motherhood, Oil, Hungry For Love, Lava Lamps

The enemy of the "best" is often the "good."

- Stephen Covey

source: Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.191, Mango Media Inc.

topic: Inspiration, Priorities In Life, Enemy, Put First Things First, Burning Inside

It's easy to say ''no!'' when there's a deeper ''yes!'' burning inside.

- Stephen Covey

source: Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1997). “First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections- Because Where You're Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Get There”, Simon and Schuster

topic: Character, Catching Fire, Vision, Burning Inside

You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you.

- Arthur Plotnik

source: Arthur Plotnik (1984). “The elements of editing: a modern guide for editors and journalists”, Scribner Paper Fiction

topic: Writing, Heart, Mind, Editing And Writing, Burning Inside

Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside all of us.

- Lech Walesa

topic: Fire, Voice, Burning, Fire Burning, Burning Inside

There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.

- Cole Porter

topic: Burning, Hungry, Yearning, Burning Inside

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.

- Stephen Covey

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Put First Things First, 7 Habits

I have always been a very passionate person. Some people are born with this fire burning inside to "do," or create, with an insatiable hunger for knowledge and experience, and I am no exception.

- Nikki Reed

topic: Fire, Insatiable Hunger, People, Fire Burning, Burning Inside

As soon as you tell me to do one thing, I do the opposite. As soon as someone tells me not to get any more tattoos, I have this intense fire burning inside me to cover myself with them. I don't care if it's self-destructive. I just have that need to rebel.

- Megan Fox

topic: Tattoo, Fire, Self, Fire Burning, Burning Inside

I think everyone should pursue their dreams. Whether you want to play football, act, sing, become a writer or whatever you have burning inside you as you’re growing up, you should pursue it.

- Tom Hiddleston

topic: Football, Dream, Growing Up, Burning Inside

It is not so much light that falls over the world extended by your body its suffocating snow, as brightness, pouring itself out of you, as if you were burning inside. Under your skin the moon is alive.

- Pablo Neruda

source: Pablo Neruda, “Ode To A Naked Beauty”

topic: Fall, Moon, Light, Burning Inside

Soul. The word rebounded to me, and I wondered, as I often had, what it was exactly. People talked about it all the time, but did anybody actually know? Sometimes I'd pictured it like a pilot light burning inside a person--a drop of fire from the invisible inferno people called God. Or a squashy substance, like a piece of clay or dental mold, which collected the sum of a person's experiences--a million indentations of happiness, desperation, fear, all the small piercings of beauty we've ever known.

- Sue Monk Kidd

source: Sue Monk Kidd (2006). “The Mermaid Chair”, p.132, Penguin

topic: Fire, Light, People, Burning Inside

What sex is, we don't know, but it must be some sort of fire. For it always communicates a sense of warmth, of glow. And when this glow becomes a pure shine, then we feel the sense of beauty. We all have the fire of sex slumbering or burning inside us. If we live to be ninety, it is still there. Or, if it dies, we become one of those ghastly living corpses which are unfortunately becoming more numerous in the world.

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Sex, Fire, Shining, Ghastly, Burning Inside

Fiercely guard the passions burning inside your heart, so that their flames can safely reach the highest ceilings of success without the eyes of envy.

- Suzy Kassem

topic: Passion, Heart, Eye, Burning Inside