Top 130 True Quotes

Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

A man‘s true character comes out when he’s drunk.

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

When you’re true to who you are, amazing things happen.

Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path.

True navigation begins in the human heart. It’s the most important map of all.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

True love doesn’t come to you it has to be inside you.

A true man hates no one.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

I do believe in God. But you won‘t find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What’s the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I’d rather do something I like doing as long as I’m being true to myself.

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

It isn’t true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how.

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.

The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call ‘Christian’ the true religion which existed before.

History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Be true to yourself and surround yourself with positive, supportive people.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

In my life I’ve learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we’re all searching for. I haven‘t come across anyone who didn’t become a better person through love.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

True leaders don’t invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people.

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It’s about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.

It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

People just love rumors. They’re always saying things that aren’t true.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

I’m a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it’s bad or good.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

I think when we truly love something, we get the same true love in return.

I believe in true love, and I believe in happy endings. And I believe.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

True love, to me, is when she’s the first thought that goes through your head when you wake up and the last thought that goes through your head before you go to sleep.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

Our true nationality is mankind.

True love doesn’t happen right away; it’s an ever-growing process. It develops after you’ve gone through many ups and downs, when you’ve suffered together, cried together, laughed together.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.

The true mark of professionalism is the ability to respect everyone else for their styles and always find something positive in every dining experience and highlight it in your thoughts and words.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

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.

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart’s desire.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

You can’t judge a book by its cover until you open up and read it. There are going be a million stories out there, true or not true. I say get to know me first before you judge me.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what’s right.

If you’re a true warrior, competition doesn’t scare you. It makes you better.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

A true champion can adapt to anything.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

It’s so easy to be insecure about your looks or if you’re wearing the right clothes, or your hair and makeup. And I think it’s just so important to stay true to who you are.

Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true – it did for me.

The best route is to stay humble and stay true to yourself.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

With all of the bad things that are happening in the world right now, I think we need a message of togetherness and true unity. I believe that starts with personal reflection and then we can find kindness toward each other.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that’s it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.

We’re taught Lord Acton’s axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don’t believe it’s always true any more. Power doesn’t always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

You just have to be true to yourself and do what you love to do.

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.

Silence is true wisdom’s best reply.

To become a great player, you’ve got to show real dedication and commitment to football, and you’ve got to be very humble and hard-working. And, above all, you’ve got to fight to make your dreams come true.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

Maybe true love isn’t out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out there for someone.

True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

I don’t usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it’s true – I’m scary.

True love – that is, deep, abiding love that is impervious to emotional whims or fancy – is a choice. It’s a constant commitment to a person regardless of the present circumstances.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That’s what makes me feel good.

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

People are like stained – glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.

Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books – especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.