True Quotes

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear of hell.

People think, because we're young, we aren't complex, but that's not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.

Your inner knowing is your only true compass.

I've left Boro in the Premiership, which was always what I wanted to do. Actually that's not quite true. I took them to three cup finals, where they'd never been before. But I had set my eyes on being the first manager in their history to deliver a major trophy.

The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

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.

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

And as a true athlete, mistakes haunt you forever.

With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.

Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.

Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?

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

Anyone who loses a parent, you have to find those parts of yourself that your parent held true in themselves, especially if they're supportive parents.

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

When the scientific method came into being, it gave us a new window on the truth; namely, a method by laboratory-controlled experiments to winnow true hypotheses from false ones.

I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.

It's my firm intention to whop cancer into submission and I truly believe I've given myself the best start possible by radically overhauling my diet and by staying true to my motto, which is: Don't worry, be happy, feel good. The first thing I did when I was diagnosed was to turn vegan.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

I think it was in Moscow last year and I got changed for training the day before we played Moscow, but the fact is they actually wanted to do John's, me and John were next to each other and they did mine by mistake. John had done them I think. So yeah it is true.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

I basically taught myself how to sing and play by copying records, and that's just how it was for me. I know that's true for a lot of budding musicians out there - that's the thing that gets them inspired, is trying to learn their favorite songs. I think it's a great way to teach yourself.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.