True Quotes

• My first true lesson in writing came from Mr. Bowden when I was 16. At my high school, he was the teacher known to be the very best at literature and writing.

  

  Jeff Lindsay
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• When, in any ethical department, unity is attained between outer demands and inner desires, between nature and conscience, between the needs of society and the individual, the moral formula is void because inner necessity then makes it psychically and physically impossible to break the outer law. Thus, true morality is attained.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Nature
  • Society
  • Law

• Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.

  

  Billy Joel
  • True
  • Dream
  • Vienna

• It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

  

  Adrian Grenier
  • True
  • Giving
  • Selfish

• A true diva is graceful, and talented, and strong, and fearless and brave and someone with humility.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Strong
  • Brave
  • Humility

• I don't want to compare President Obama and President Trump on these issues, because they're different, and the scale isn't even remotely the same. But President Obama said things that weren't true and got away with it more for a variety of reasons, and one is the media was much more supportive of him.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • Different
  • True
  • Trump

• I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • True

• I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.

  

  Joe Hill
  • Time
  • Die
  • Blue

• True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It promotes both beauty in the man who possesses it, and happiness in those who are about him. It is a religious duty, and should be a part of religious training.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Spirit
  • Benevolence
  • Politeness

• It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

  

  Picabo Street
  • Life
  • Done
  • Desire

• American computer science grads often have very little exposure to the human condition. They've rarely had manual labor or service jobs. They grow up in a bubble of privilege lulled into thinking this country is a true meritocracy.

  

  Chris Sacca
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Country

• 'They have nothing in their entire arsenal to break the spirit of one single Republican prisoner-of-war who refuses to be broken,' I thought, and that was very true. They cannot or never will break our spirit.

  

  Bobby Sands
  • War
  • Single
  • Broken

• The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Spirit

• It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles.

  

  Mark Gatiss
  • True
  • Fun
  • Lies

• I think I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something that people find mildly surprising. ...I find a lot of feminist reading quite confusing and that often there's a set of rules, and people will be like, 'Oh, this person isn't a true feminist because they don't embody this one thing,' and I don't know, often there is a lot of gray area that can be hard to navigate.

  

  Lorde
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Girl

• When people write things on the Internet about me that aren't true, it's tough to deal with. Even if you're the most mellow person in the world, stuff like that bothers you eventually.

  

  Phillip Phillips
  • People
  • World
  • True

• It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • People
  • Learning
  • Serious

• To me acting is a hobby and I'm inspired by it. And if I'm going to spend time doing something that I'm not really inspired to do, then why am I doing it? I don't know if that sounds sort of new agey or whatever, but it's true. I've been lucky enough to have a musical career that has gone pretty good and acting is something I have always wanted to do.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Time
  • Good
  • Why

• I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all, So tell me why it should be true That I get a kick out of you?

  

  Cole Porter
  • Why
  • Alcohol
  • Champagne

• True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • True
  • Moments
  • Humility

• I have no way of knowing that your story is not true - but you have no way of knowing that my story isn't true. So I will choose the one that I love. I will close the one that, if it's true, makes this reality one worth living in. I'll act as if the life I hope for is real life, and the life that disgusts me - your life, your view of life - is the lie.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Real
  • Hope

• We must all move shoulder to shoulder in a unified front to show this administration that the true majority of people are willing to vote for a cleaner environment and won't back down.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Environment
  • Administration

• Tears, that could be the tone, if they weren't so easy, the true tone and tenor at last.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • True
  • Tears

• Whether you're a government entity, a large enterprise, or a startup, a true digital transformation takes advantage of technology to focus on the customer, automates work that does not need manual interference, and unleashes your people to truly make decisions that change the path of your company.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • People
  • Work
  • Change

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