Truest Quotes - Page 11

• The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Life Is, Hours, Ends

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Daily Devotion - 365 Days With Jesus”, p.132, Editora Dracaena

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb's bleat.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Father, Writing

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.13, Heron Dance Press

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• My own soul is my most faithful friend. My own heart, my truest confidant

  Babur

  Heart, Soul, Faithful

  108 Copy quote

• An excess of development can undermine the most ephemeral but distinctive tool a writer possesses: authorial voice. A writer's voice is as individual and marked as a thumbprint, and is a playwright's truest imprimatur. It is as innate as breathing, and can be as unique as any genetic code. By its very singular nature, it is seldom born in the act of collaboration. True authorial voice always pre-dates the first rehearsal of a text. And it is - and will always be - an author's most distinguishing and valuable feature.

  David Wright

  Unique, Voice, Breathing

  7 Copy quote

• I do not ask for a path with no trouble or regret. I ask instead for a friend who'll walk with me down any path.I do not ask never to feel pain. I ask instead for courage, even when hope can scarce shine through.And one more thing I ask:That in every hour of joy or pain, I feel the Creator close by my side. This is my truest prayer for myself and for all I love, now and forever, Amen.

  Kersten Hamilton

  Love, Regret, Prayer

  4 Copy quote

• We hail science as man's truest friend and noblest helper.

  Moses Harvey

  Science, Men, Hail

  4 Copy quote

• God has so ordered, that in pressing on in duty we shall find the truest, richest comfort for ourselves. Sitting down to brood over our sorrows, the darkness deepens about us and creeps into our heart, and our strength changes to weakness. But, if we turn away from the gloom, and take up the tasks and duties to which God calls us, the light will come again, and we shall grow stronger.

  Lettie Cowman

  Heart, Light, Darkness

  11 Copy quote

• Purity of life is the highest and truest art.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Life Is, Purity

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.174, A&C Black

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Communication, Dark, Light

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.7, Wordsworth Editions

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Lying, Heart, Self

  19 Copy quote

• There is one tradition in America I am proud to inherit. It is our first freedom and the truest expression of our Americanism: the ability to dissent without fear. It is our right to utter the words, 'I disagree.' We must feel at liberty to speak those words to our neighbors, our clergy, our educators, our news media, our lawmakers and, above all, to the one among us we elect - President.

  Natalie Merchant

  Media, Expression, America

  "What is Patriotism?". www.thenation.com. July 15, 1991.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.

  William Hazlitt

  Wisdom, Heart, Understanding

  5 Copy quote

• Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest lines or the flashiest ones?

  Julian Barnes

  Important, Lines, Speak

  "The road not taken" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

  Susan Sontag

  Two, Creative, Culture

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.177, Macmillan

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.

  Euripides

  Silence, Tongue

  Euripides (1942). “Euripides”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If your life at night is good, you think you have Everything; but, if in that quarter things go wrong, You will consider your best and truest interests Most hateful.

  Euripides

  Sex, Night, Thinking

  Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.18, Courier Corporation

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Faith, courage, and intelligent and uninterrupted awareness - these qualities are to be present whether one is wide awake, half asleep, or in deep slumber. An individual who lives like this performs his daily actions with a mind free from selfishness. This is poise in action. And this poise leads to that serenity which is in the truest sense a healthy mind in a healthy body.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Intelligent, Serenity, Healthy

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.107, Shambhala Publications

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.

  Al Sharpton

  Patriot

  4 Copy quote

• He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Humility, Exercise, Higher

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.235

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Vagabonding is an attitude — a friendly interest in people, places, and things that makes a person an explorer in the truest, most vivid sense of the word.

  Rolf Potts

  Attitude, People, Friendly

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.11, Ballantine Books

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Friendship, Dog, Gangsters

  8 Copy quote

• Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have learnt and are ready to abide by the eternal lesson - that we are bound to bear and forbear and that life to every one must be a compromise.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Marriage, Ninety Nine, Race

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of moral life and social virtue.

  Andrew Jackson

  Principles, Moral, Masonic

  9 Copy quote

• Though neither happiness nor respect are worth anything, because unless both are coming from the truest motives, they are simply deceits. A successful man earns the respect of the world never mind what is the state of his mind, or his manner of earning. So what is the good of such respect, and how happy will such a man be in himself? And if he is what passes for happy, such a state is lower than the self-content of the meanest animal.

  Richard Llewellyn

  Successful, Animal, Men

  Richard Llewellyn (2009). “How Green Was My Valley”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Courtesy should be apparent in all our actions and words and in all aspects of daily life. But be courtesy, I do not mean rigid, cold formality. Courtesy in the truest sense is selfless concern for the welfare and physical and mental comfort of the other person.

  Mas Oyama

  Mean, Comfort, Selfless

  91 Copy quote