True Quotes

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

It will be a dream come true if I can go there and lift it.

True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

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

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things.

The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.

If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.

There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.

It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are finished? It's too harsh, too sweeping, and it happens to not be true.

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

Once winter sets in I must have the sun and warmth. I need to be in the sun - I'm a true island baby.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.

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

I would love to have seen a male-female relationship that had nothing to do with falling in love, I'd love to prove, even on TV - even if it's not true! - that men and women can be friends without any kind of involvement.

The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.

I would say my biggest mentor has been my father because he always has been. Actually both of my parents have always been ones to encourage me to be myself and stay true to myself and not fall into what other people want me to do.

But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices.

Bulgaria is a true friend of Israel, that stood up to save the Jewish people 70 years ago in Europe, and who stood by throughout the terror attack that took place in Burgas last July.

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

It's true I'm more widely recognised now and get invited to take part in all sorts of events and projects but as a person, I haven't changed.