True Quotes

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.

People often get the wrong impression of Mick. The clever businessman is just one side of Mick. The other side is the same as the rest of us, a true rocker!

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud.

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.

It's going to be true that anything that reduces the federal deficit will have somebody unhappy.

I want to do stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that all the time, 'There's nothing like live theater, blah blah,' but it's really true. I see a show and I know how they feel, and it feels great.

While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true.

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

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.