True Quotes

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves

True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you - attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Beauty [is] a kind of radiance. People who possess a true inner beauty, their eyes are a little brighter, their skin a little more dewy. They vibrate at a different frequency.

No one does anything from a single motive.

Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

Visualize, 'prayerize', 'actionize', and your wishes will come true.

Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.

Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.

It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.

And so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you

We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.

No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

Your presence was shore where I rested/ released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke/ with my true voice again.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.

A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.

A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true.

Relaxed Empiricism — I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.

To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.

True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Your inner knowing is your only true compass.

Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

What is true is true, and what is false is false...

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.

True friends stab you in the front.

But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.

What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.

All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.

It is true that we are interested in scale but there are very sound reasons for this.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

That doesn't necessarily mean that the story isn't true, ... But what it does mean, then, is that at this moment we simply do not have enough evidence, in my view, for any conclusion to be reached - that the presidents have been lying to us for all these years and that what we've been told was just a pack of lies.

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

In seperateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lies the world's true strength

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the critical/review system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major' writers and their promising successors; bookshops tend not to sell them; publishers don't promote them. It's the same fate as has befallen poetry.

For seldom shall she hear a tale So said, so tender, yet so true.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

What I tell you three times is true.

Oh oh it's magic, when I'm with you, oh oh it's magic, you know it's true, got a hold on you.

Is this true or only clever?

To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true.

We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.

A hair divides what is false and true.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.