If You Are True Quotes

#1. You, the sons of the pioneers, if you are true to your ancestry, must make your lives as worthy as they made theirs. They sought for true success, and therefore they did not seek ease. They knew that success comes only to those who lead the life of endeavor

Theodore Roosevelt

#2. Seek the fashion which truly fits and befits you. You will always be in fashion if you are true to yourself, and only if you are true to yourself.

Maya Angelou

#3. The lens is the actor's best critic ... showing his mind more clearly than on the stage. You can get wonderful cooperation out of the lens if you are true, but God help you if you are not.

Sydney Greenstreet

#4. I believe you can have a much better life if you are true to your core self, and therefore guided by love and intuitive inner knowing.

Peter Shepherd

#5. Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; it's a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. It's all right there in front of us.

Phil Anselmo

#6. People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well.

Bebe Neuwirth

#7. Falling in love is not based on the length of time you spend together; it's based on the innate mindfulness of each other's joy. If you are true soul mates, you never meet as strangers, you meet feeling like you've known each other forever. You feel at peace, calm, happy - you feel complete.

Char Sharp

#8. Love what you do and who you truly are. Be willing to die for it. If you are true to yourself, you can never go wrong

Frank Iero

#9. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own. I do this not selfishly, but humbly and truly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. You are not to be looked upon as holding the true Catholic faith if you do not teach that the faith of Rome is to be held

Pope Leo XIII

#11. The thing you can't underestimate is the true fan's intimacy. So Lady Gaga or anybody's true fan, I don't think they're going anywhere. There are people who are into commitment. If they're connecting with an artist, I think they'll be there over the long course.

Alanis Morissette

#12. You can not retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external or imaginary.

Wallace D. Wattles

#13. The mind and the soul must work together if you are to experience true bliss. Try not to spend too much time exclusively in your mind. It is a magnificent tool, but it has a limited perspective.

Neale Donald Walsch

#14. All friends are not for life, but if you have a true friend, you have a life.

Lois Wyse

#15. I can understand there are things like shadows they need to fix after a shoot, but it's unfair to represent an image of yourself if it's not true. They're gonna see what you look like on film anyway, so why try to cover all your wobbly bits in a photo?

Emily Blunt

#16. Thus proving that dreams that come true are not always the right dreams. Does wearing a glass slipper lead to a comfortable life? If everything you touch turns into marshmallows, won't that make things a bit ... sticky?

Terry Pratchett

#17. What is about Army uniforms? Especially combats. They are just drool-worthy, if you ask me.

Aditi Mathur Kumar

#18. Money can't change who we are. All it does is magnify our true natures. If you're mean and selfish, you have more to be mean and selfish with. If you're grateful and loving, you have more to appreciate and give.

Anthony Robbins

#19. If you feel stuck in your present life, if you feel no enthusiasm for anything, if you think you have no purpose or that you lost that purpose somewhere along the way, I guarantee you are living in a dungeon made of stories. And that none of those limiting stories are true.

Martha Beck

#20. When you are a real queen, there is absolutely no reason to try and make people believe that you are one. Because you just are. Life is lived with grace, courage, and serenity. If you must dedicate any amount of time and mental ability to making anyone believe that you are one; you're not!

C. JoyBell C.

#21. Never apologize for who you are and what you do and more especially never apologize for dreaming big even if they don't come true. Many will criticize you and call you names but hey it's your life, it's your dream. Make it happen.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#22. They say nice guys finish last. That may be true, if the only people you're nice to are the ones who constantly disrespect you.

Charles F. Glassman

#23. Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance.

Phil Klay

#24. The old saying is true: "We are saved by faith alone, but saving faith is never alone." If you belong to God, you will persevere in doing good. You will not be perfect, but you will persevere with patience.

James Johnston

#25. If you feel unwanted or unappreciated where you are or by those you're with, it only means you're in the wrong place or with the wrong people. Hang in there. Someone else will see you for the true gift you are.

LK Hunsaker

#26. I'm only thin-skinned when somebody says bad things that are false. For instance, if you hit me about something that's true, all right, the bankruptcy - I used that as a tool. I didn't ever file for bankruptcy.

Donald Trump

#27. You have no idea how many men are spoiled by what is called education. For the most part, colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. If Shakespeare had graduated at Oxford, he might have been a quibbling attorney, or a hypocritical parson.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#28. One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying ... If you want to see what you truly are, open the window, and everything you see is in fact the expression of your inner reality. Can you embrace all of it?

Adyashanti

#29. It's true that I said there are miracles that only happen if you keep fighting. But Yukiteru... There's another thing you need to know about miracles. Most of them aren't all they're cracked up to be.

Sakae Esuno

#30. I'm not saying girls are perfect, because we all know that's not true. But why be unfaithful to her if she was true to you.

Tupac Shakur

#31. They say if your ears are burning then someone is talking about you. Is that true? Because I have a question about what it means if it's a different body part.

Jessica Park

#32. Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.

Simone Weil

#33. words are empty if you're too cowardly to actually make your promises come true.

Alex Ashmore

#34. When you don't hear others, you don't imagine them, they become unreal, and you are left in the wasteland of a world with only yourself in it, and that surely makes you starving, though you know not for what, if you have ceased to imagine others exist in any true deep way that matters.

Rebecca Solnit

#35. All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.

Thomas Sowell

#36. If you go against growth, you go against yourself. How ready are we to face, accept and deal with the situations that comes to us unexpectedly in our partners. It takes a big heart to face situations but above all it takes simplicity, humility and self denial to show true love and care.

William Pious Akakpo

#37. If you are not living each day with excitement, energy, and passion, then you are not living true to your life purpose.

Celestine Chua

#38. If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.

Immortal Technique

#39. If two people are able to communicate their feelings without words you know it's true love

Novala Takemoto

#40. If you are animated by right principles, and are fully awakened to the true dignity of life, the subject of amusements may be left to settle itself.

Thornton T. Munger

#41. If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.

Dan Barker

#42. If the writing is good, then the writing is already funny. All you have to do is make this funny writing true to the very deepest of your heart, and the fact that you are capable of making this true will be hysterical.

Constance Wu

#43. You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.

Steve Garvey

#44. If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren't true - whereas prior to questioning, you absolutely believe them. How can you live in joy when you're believing thoughts that bring on sadness, frustration, anger, alienation, and loneliness?

Byron Katie

#45. All these things are miracles. It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do.

Lemony Snicket

#46. All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.

Patrick Rothfuss

#47. Yes, it is true that there are times when you do wonder if things are worth it but usually those moments pass as soon as they have come.

Asa Gray

#48. Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything ... whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.

Tina Turner

#49. Every soul on earth is equally precious, even those of plants and animals. If you see love in one area and not another, then you are not reflecting true love for all creatures on earth, only a deficiency in your senses. The light of love sees no walls.

Suzy Kassem

#50. To quote French author Francois Mauriac, 'Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who your are' is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

Sarah Wendell

#51. True basketball coaches are great teachers and you do not humiliate, you do not physically go after, you do not push or shove, you do not berate, if you are a true coach. If you humiliate or curse them, that won't do it. Coaches like that are not coaches.

Morgan Wootten

#52. Your dreams will come true- If you put your mind to it. Your fantasies not. They only help you imagine that things are better than they really are.

Yalda Walinezjad

#53. Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer.

Dale Carnegie

#54. Even if they say you are rebellious, criminal, bad, evil, let them think it. Even if they put you on the cross let them do it, but you remain true to yourself.

Osho

#55. Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.

Warren Moon

#56. If you are serious about becoming like Christ, He is going to put you in circumstances where your only true choice is to become like Him.

Francis Frangipane

#57. How can you know if you're normal when you're always alone? You have no one to compare yourself to. I mean, I have my mom and dad, and I'm pretty normal compared to them. But then ... a lot of people are normal compared to them

Anne Pfeffer

#58. If you are unable to reach a person you must know that this happens not because that the roads are closed but because you don't know the true paths to reach that person!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#59. You go on about reasons," Cora said. "Call things by other names as if it changes what they are. But that don't make them true.

Colson Whitehead

#60. If you know something is true, you don't need to convince anyone of it. If you are trying to convince anyone, it is probably yourself.

Alan Cohen

#61. If you can be anything, be real.

Nikki Rowe

#62. If you don't do what you love, you will never love what you do. And if you don't love whatever you do, you are likely to be worried anytime a duty is assigned to you concerning that.

Israelmore Ayivor

#63. Pray, even if you feel nothing, see nothing. For when you are dry, empty, sick or weak, at such a time is your prayer most pleasing to God, even though you may find little joy in it. This is true of all believing prayer.

Julian Of Norwich

#64. True love is a love without possessiveness. You love and still you are free, and the other person is also free. The kind of love that has no joy is not true love. If both parties cry every day, then that's not true love. There must be joy and freedom and understanding in love.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#65. If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed ... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

George Whitefield

#66. Perhaps everything you say is true and these are the death throes of the human race, but even if that was true, I would not lose faith. There must be hope, and I must fight for my Emperor against Chaos and it's servants.

That is insanity.

Wrong, it's being human.

Ben Counter

#67. When you spend your life acting and being other people, as opposed to being the one person that you are, you learn that life is gray sometimes, not black and white. That what you thought was true isn't necessarily true if you switch sides.

Sydney Pollack

#68. Okay, seriously, I dont know if this is true or not, but I heard people who use profanity are trying to compensate for their lack of you know ... size -Tuck

Simone Elkeles

#69. If you love someone so much and they love you as the same dont let go of them fite for them showem how you true feel no lies no bs but if they are not worth it then leave and find your happiness

Mike Radcliff Jr

#70. If you look at where the tried and true of Silicon Valley VC's are investing, it's in people who understand what it takes, who've been through it and have a network of people they can tap and resources to pull together.

Tony Fadell

#71. I swear you are my fucking dream come true."
It's amazing how he can take the sweetest things, throw the word "fucking" in the middle of it, and I could melt into a puddle at his feet. If my panties weren't already off, I'd be dropping them after hearing him say that.

Georgia Cates

#72. As an observer, you can clearly see that Western countries are war-weary and don't want to be pulled into new conflicts. They always proclaim their will to fight for Israel in an emergency. That's good but what if that's not at all true when the time comes?

Ronald Lauder

#73. The thing about having friends who are as close as blood, as true as your own heart, as the twins had been to her, is you don't bother much with other people. And if you have the misfortune to get left behind, well, you've made yourself a lonely nest to live in.

Laini Taylor

#74. Miracles are happening every day. I do think that's true. If you can take the time to look. It took me a while to learn that, though some children know it instinctively and they do have wonder when they are kids. But the trouble is, as we grow older, we lose it.

Julie Andrews

#75. If you believe that every life has equal value, it's revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: "This can't be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving."

Bill Gates

#76. You cannot hate what you do not know. They do not know you, therefore they are incapable of hating you. Perhaps I might concede they hate the idea of you. But if this is true, then your task is a simple one. You merely have to show them that you are not that idea.

Tom King

#77. Pain is a byproduct of life. That's the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That's true for everyone. But if you don't face the pain and the suck, you don't ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.

Jim Butcher

#78. If your vision encourages and enables others to hope more, see more, act more, love more, and live more then you are a true pathfinder.

Debasish Mridha

#79. The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are.

Mary J. Blige

#80. I think shows that are completely dramatic are a lie. People use humor to cope. That is how we deal with things. In the darkest situations, there's humor. And if you don't show that, you're not being true to real life.

Jenji Kohan

#81. Is it true that your last name is Goodend? Are you really a gay guy with the last name Goodend? Because if it is, man, that's like, totally freakin' awesome!

J.F. Smith

#82. If you are not more alive when in love then you my friend are in love with the wrong one.

Nikki Rowe

#83. The only true riches are those that make us rich in virtue. Therefore, if you want to be rich, beloved, love true riches. If you aspire to the heights of real honor, strive to reach the kingdom of Heaven. If you value rank and renown, hasten to be enrolled in the heavenly court of the Angels.

Pope Gregory I

#84. It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are.

Christina Aguilera

#85. It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren't really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it's the best.

Leo Kottke

#86. The true measure of a successful leader is their ability to discover the hidden talent in those they lead and challenge them to achieve greatness. If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you are right.

Henry Ford

#87. If you are not progressing along the true way, a slight twist in the mind can become a major twist. This must be pondered well.

Miyamoto Musashi

#88. I'd been raised Mormon, but there comes a time where you are not following what you've been taught, but discovering for yourself if it's true.

Clayton M Christensen

#89. If you could hear other people's thoughts, you'd overhear things that are true as well as things that are completely random. And you wouldn't know one from the other. It'd drive you insane. What's true? What's not? A million ideas, but what do they mean?

Jay Asher

#90. Girls you are stronger than you know.. If you don't like being treated like a doormat the get the f**k off the floor.

Kelly Elliott

#91. Find ways to develop self-awareness so you know what you do well... you do a thousand things brilliantly, and if you don't know what they are you aren't going to be able to become a true evaluator of your own work or other people's.

Heather Sellers

#92. If you promise to love, trust, respect, support and stand by someone no matter what, do not just speak those words when times are good. Live those words when challenges arise. The stronger the love and commitment, the more unbreakable the bond. United hearts will never be easily divided.

Carlos Wallace

#93. There is this view that if you are not tormented you cannot be vital and creative. I would like to think that is not true.

Gillian Anderson

#94. People always say be true to yourself. But that's misleading, because there are two selves. There's your short term self, and there's your long term self. And if you're only true to your short term self, your long term self slowly decays.

Brandon Stanton

#95. Anyhow, as I was saying, if you ever have a daughter, you'll begin, without realizing it, to divide men into two camps: those you suspect are sleeping with her and those you don't. Whoever says that's not true is lying through his teeth.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#96. The people around you are mirrors, I think.
You see yourself reflected in their eyes. If the mirror is true, and smooth, you see your true self. That's how you learn who you are.

Caitlin Moran

#97. Back in medieval times, Victorian repression hadn't come in yet. People were bawdy and wild and more in touch with their true natures. If you look at the Bosch paintings or Bruegel, you see, when people are dancing, they're totally cutting loose.

Catherine Hardwicke

#98. If you have what you want to say inside, and if you are crying for something that is true inside, it doesn't matter. The camera always sees it.

Elena Anaya

#99. You can't distinguish your group by doing things that are rational and believing things that are true. If you want to set yourself apart from other people you have to do things that are arbitrary and believe things that are false.

Paul Graham

#100. If 10 percent of them are close to your age, that would be around 50,000 people in a lifetime. Given that you have 500,000,000 potential soul mates, it means you would find true love only in one lifetime out of 10,000.

Randall Munroe