True Quotes

To laugh is to risk appearing a fool, to weep is to risk appearing too sentimental, to reach out for another is to risk involvement, and to expose feelings is to risk exposing one's true self.

True knowledge is power; but in order to feel at home with it, we must be constitutionally qualified. And if we are not, it is likely to give the soul such a twist as to deform it forever.

A common objection to inherited wealth is that it stifles the urge to work. I have not generally observed this to be true.

The wealth of the soul is the only true wealth.

Somewhere in the crowd was at least one potential friend who'd understand the fundamental value of goofing off. Because if not, how boring would that be?

True character is revealedby the way people react to the bigger challenges in life.

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.

. . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.

They weren't true stories; they were better than that.

Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.

The more you give, the more you get - it’s a cliché, but it’s really true.

Nothing brings me more joy than seeing other people's dreams come true.

There is no bravery in evil, no true courage in behavior that can only result in deep disappointment.

If true love were only about feelings, Jesus would have been hugged to death for our redemption. Thank God for His cross this and every day.

It is only true love when you have no choice. Love is the most highly valued disease that is identified by the symptom of You-can´t-help-it.

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true

True happiness is not made in getting something. True happiness is becoming something. This can be done by being committed to lofty goals. We cannot become something without commitment.

That's what true love should be like-the person should be part of your soul and you should know what they're feeling all the time.

All true stories end in death.

No Romeo-and-Juliet acts, no nonsense about Love with a large L, none of that popular song claptrap with its skies of blue, dreams come true, heaven with you. Just sensuality for its own sake.

When we have an inner initiation into pure love, we are in contact with our true nature.

...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.

When we allow ourselves to feel what we are feeling-without trying to understand it, explain it, or judge it-we reach a point where the true wisdom reveals itself.

When in doubt, we follow our hearts. Words can be false, images and sounds can be manipulated. But this...' He tapped his chest, over his heart. 'This is always true

The word courage comes from the French word 'coeur', which means heart. True power proceeds not from force, but from love.

True worship has less to do with offering sacrifices than with being a sacrifice ourselves.

A true friend never asks of you what they know you would never ask of them.

True love is love that causes us pain, that hurts, and yet brings us joy. That is why we must pray to God and ask Him to give us the courage to love

This is the meaning of true love, to give until it hurts.

The highest manifestation of true leadership is to identify one’s replacement and to begin mentoring him or her.

Always stay true to yourselves.

The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.

Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.

It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that, in style, head up and proud, and not yearn to be something else.

Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.

Tolerance and tranquility are two characteristics of true love.

The true religion of America has always been America.

True love is humble, thereby is it known; Girded for service, seeking not its own; Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise.

The Unicorn Sonata... tells us that our true home is often right around the corner, if we'd only open our eyes - and our ears - to find it.

True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.

True power is the power to empower others.

Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.

If it sounds too good to be true, it always is.

True love isn't reserved for weddings and ceremonies. It's from the heart. That's all it has to be. All it ever is.

Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

You should never reveal your true age.

A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.

'Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction.