Fire Inside Quotes:

I didn’t know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed.

- Simon Van Booy

source: Simon Van Booy (2007). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, Turtle Point Pr

topic: Fire, Knows, Fire Inside

School is a building that has four walls-with tomorrow inside. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. There are many ways of going forward, but there is only one way of standing still. A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills. Doing your best is more important than being the best. Giant oak trees started out as little nuts. The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

- Ferdinand Foch

topic: Motivational, Wall, Powerful, Soul Life, Soul Power

I actually enjoy the pain. That's what gives me the fire inside to get up and keep going.

- Steve McNair

topic: Pain, Fire, Giving, Fire Inside

Just 'cause there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there's not a fire inside.

- Bonnie Hunt

topic: Mean, Fire, Snow, Fire Inside

Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.

- J.A. Konrath

topic: Fire, People, Trying, Learned Behavior, Fire Inside

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Spiritual, Men, Fire, Spiritual Awareness, Spiritual Buddhist

The fire inside people is like a match; the way to ignite that flame is initially through friction, then other matches are lit through warmth.

- Stephen Covey

topic: Fire, Flames, People, Fire Inside, Ignite

Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me

- Ray LaMontagne

topic: Hurt, Fire, Fuel, Fire Inside

That old star that you been wishin' on is shining mighty bright, but it's the fire inside your heart that's gonna lead you to the light.

- Garth Brooks

topic: Inspirational, Stars, Heart, Fire Inside

No one else can steward the fire inside of you because only you are in charge of it.

- Danny Silk

topic: Fire, Stewards, Fire Inside

Come be the fire inside of me, come be the flame upon my heart. Come be the fire inside of me until You and I are one.

- Misty Edwards

source: Song: You Won't Relent

topic: Heart, Flames, Fire, Fire Inside

Dreams die hard and we watch them erode, but we cannot be denied the fire inside.

- Bob Seger

source: Song: The Fire Inside, Album: Greatest Hits

topic: Dream, Fire, Watches, Fire Inside

I was so focused and so driven, there was this fire inside of me that was burning so brightly.

- Kyle Shewfelt

topic: Fire, Focus, Burning, Fire Inside

There's a competitive fire inside me. I can't get enough. I live to compete daily in my own life.

- Mike Holloway

topic: Fire, Enough, My Own, Fire Inside

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Love, Valentines Day, Fire, Kindle Fire, Falling In Love With You

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.3286, e-artnow

topic: Fire, Musician, Drones, Fire Inside

Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling.

- Peter Zumthor

topic: Beautiful, Heart, Fire, Fire Inside

I'm pretty cerebral, so I can occasionally rationalize emotional pain away, but when I can't, that's when I start to feel the fire inside take over and somehow manage to power through.

- Nathan Parsons

topic: Pain, Emotional, Fire, Emotional Pain, Fire Inside

So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.

- John Newcombe

topic: Fire, Negative, Way, Realised, Fire Inside

We can export terrorism. We can assassinate and set fires inside the territory of the United States as it did to all of us.

- Muammar al-Gaddafi

topic: Peace, War, Fire, Fire Inside

If you ask what's been my secret of success, most might say it's my God-given athletic ability to throw a football. While talent is important, it's not necessarily the most important thing. Thousands of talented people fail every day. My strength has been my will to win-that competitive fire inside.

- John Elway

source: John Elway (1997). “Comeback Kid”, Taylor Pub

topic: Football, People, Athletic, Fire Inside, Athletic Ability

Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It's lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It's higher thought and a greater plan. It's glorious dream in the soul of man.

- Wilferd Peterson

topic: Christmas, Dream, Lying, Meaningful Christmas, Merry Christmas Inspirational

They say that age kills the fire inside of a man, that he hears Death coming, he opens the door and says, "Come in, give me rest!" That is a pack of goddam lies.

- Anthony Quinn

topic: Lying, Men, Fire, Death Coming, Fire Inside

Wayne is truly blessed. He doesn't just have ability, he has a fire inside him.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Inspirational, Blessed, Fire, Fire Inside

People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.

- Sylvester Stallone

topic: Fun, Thinking, Sight, Fire Inside

I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the walls lined with all the best books, somewhere to live when the rest of the world blew up.

- Bruce Chatwin

source: Bruce Chatwin (2003). “In Patagonia”, p.27, Penguin

topic: Wall, Book, Fire, Fire Inside

Broken Window Theory: Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is for vandals to break a few more windows. Eventually, they may even break into the building, and if it's unoccupied, perhaps become squatters or light fires inside. Or consider a sidewalk. Some litter accumulates. Soon, more litter accumulates. Eventually, people even start leaving bags of trash from take-out restaurants there or even break into cars.

- James Q. Wilson

topic: Fire, Light, People, Squatters, Fire Inside

You can look at Bad Religion, and, really, almost everything I've ever done was an exercise in creativity. I've always had a desire to challenge and question authority, and that's where the fire inside comes from. I challenged authority out of a desire to make things better, not to be nihilistic about it.

- Greg Graffin

topic: Creativity, Exercise, Fire, Fire Inside

If I make a bogey or three putt I'm on fire inside. But it's not like you're going to play any better slamming your club or getting angry. So you might as well just keep it in. People say I'm pretty calm, but I do make mistakes and I do get angry, but I try and not show it.

- Lydia Ko

topic: Mistake, Fire, Play, Fire Inside