A Quote by Philip Yancey

Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
American - Author
Born: 1949

I am hostile to the idea that collective solutions have to be made by committees and then imposed top-down. I very much prefer bottom-up solutions.

Roger Scruton

A free man - is a man who is free internally. As all other people, externally he or she depends on society. Internally he or she is independent. A society can become liberated externally - from oppression, but it can become free only when the majority of people are free internally.

Simon Soloveychik

We must renew the economy from the bottom up, not top down.

Jesse Jackson

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

Phil McGraw

I think as a gay person, there was no way in my generation to not grow up with shame and a sense of being wrong. It was impossible to avoid. Externally, you might make choices that are very public and very open but internally that was a struggle.

Ira Sachs

Democracy must be internally generated. You cannot force it from the top - it's not going to work.

Mahathir Mohamad

We want First Nations and these people to be like Canadians on a lot of points of view. Right now, that's not normal that they cannot have running water on reserve. We need to fix that, but it must not be imposed by Ottawa, a top-down bureaucratic decision.

Maxime Bernier

I believe people from the film industry, musicians, dancers, artists and writers are all internally connected. The form of expression externally may vary, but we are connected internally.

Sudha Murty

If you see distraction externally, you end up creating an internally distracted state.

Tim Ferriss

We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.

Emanuel Celler

Don't forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to glow externally.

Hannah Bronfman

I think we did a pretty good role, linking, being a sounding board really and a driving force, especially from the bottom up. I think that part of this is bottom up as well as top down.

Richard Rogers

An undesirable society, in other words, is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience.

John Dewey

Sometimes we forget that the top of the wave, the top of the crest is always the bottom, there is no inside without an outside, and there is no up without a down.

John Assaraf

Externally we are a single being, but internally we are a world.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

In the general sense, there's a journey to be had. You either start at the top or the bottom for a journey to happen. Our movie has to start at the top and work it's way down. Or start at the bottom and work it's way up.

David Duchovny

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