True Quotes

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live.

It's true that it's a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.

I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.

My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver.

The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

My name is very often associated with parties and entertaining, but it's not true. I am not such a party person.

However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.

The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.

I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn't hurt anyone. True fans will buy the CD or go see the movie after downloading, but to say it doesn't affect anyone - come on.

"Let God be true but every man a liar" is the language of true faith.

True relaxation, which would do me the world of good, does not exist for me.

Jackie Robinson is a true legend.

The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.

For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.

Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel.