Trueness Quotes

• You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward Trueness at last.

  Vernon Howard

  Letting Go, Journey, Delay

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• I wish I could find words to express the trueness, the bravery, the hardihood, the sense of honor, the loyalty to their trust and to each other of the old trail hands.

  Charles Goodnight

  Loyalty, Hands, Bravery

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• Blueness doth express trueness.

  Ben Jonson

  Color

  Ben Jonson (1756). “The Works of Ben. Jonson”, p.384

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• A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  'Sebastian Melmoth' (1905) p. 12. Oscariana (1910) p. 8

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• Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

  Alan Cohen

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Truth

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• It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ch. 18 (1999)

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• The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Life, Beautiful, Stories

  Glamour Women Of The Year speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2014.

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• Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sight, Genius, Consistent

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• Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true.
  And if you really loved yourself, then you would try and be you.

  Phife Dawg

  Being Yourself, Lying, Rap

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• Democracy is a con game. It’s a word invented to placate people to make them accept a given institution. All institutions sing, ‘We are free.’ The minute you hear ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’, watch out… because in a truly free nation, no one has to tell you you’re free.

  Jacque Fresco

  Freedom, Acceptance, Games

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• You know what the true definition of hell is? It's when you die, you get to meet the person you could have been.

  Frank Mir

  Death, Sports, Mma

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• Two wrongs don't make a right.

  Roald Dahl

  Revenge, Humorous, Math

  Roald Dahl (2016). “The GFG: The Guid Freendly Giant: The BFG in Scots”, p.145, Black & White Publishing

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• True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition.

  Frederick Herzberg

  Motivational, Jobs, Achievement

  "Financial Times Handbook of Management". P. 229. Book by Stuart Crainer and ‎Des Dearlove, 2004.

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• The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Tests, Fairness, Truthful

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• Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.

  Tony Robbins

  Leadership, Mean, Commitment

  Twitter post from Dec 21, 2015

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• Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls... searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor... What you are seeing is a true artist at work, patiently assembling all the materials of her craft, just as the painter squeezes oil colors onto his palette ready to create a masterpiece.

  Keith Floyd

  Patience, Art, Food

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• You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Motivational, Kindness

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together.

  Pauli Murray

  Equality, Ties, Diversity

  Pauli Murray (2006). “Pauli Murray: Selected Sermons and Writings”

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• All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.

  Michael Crichton

  Life, People, Ninety

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The Lost World”, Knopf

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• People will always show their true selves in the end.

  Leona Lewis

  Life, Fake People, Truth

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always have strong feelings when I'm writing a book. Sometimes when I'm writing a book, I even cry when I'm writing. Once I read a quotation that I thought was very true for me, which is: "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."

  Eve Bunting

  Strong, Book, Reading

  Source: www.scholastic.com

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• There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Good Man, Desire

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• To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Graduation, Honesty

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• If there is one lesson that I have learned during my life as an analyst, it is the lesson that what my patients tell me is likely to be true - that many times when I believed that I was right and my patients were wrong, it turned out, though often only after a prolonged search, that my rightness was superficial whereas their rightness was profound.

  Heinz Kohut

  Truth, Believe, Profound

  Heinz Kohut (2009). “How Does Analysis Cure?”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

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• The big problem is not whether the Bible is true. The big problem is whether it is true in you.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Bible, Christian, Religious

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