Top 82 Moments Of Truth Quotes
#1. As you go through life, there are thousands of little forks in the road, and there are a few really big forks-those moments of reckoning, moments of truth.
Lee Iacocca
#2. Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.
Alan Rudolph
#3. Left, Right. Steady effort. This is familiar. Most accomplishment is like this . . . Not the result of decisive actions, or moments of truth.
No, persistence is the source of the best of what we do, of real change. Even, single-minded persistence.
Paul Chadwick
#4. SAS is 'created' 50 million times a year, 15 seconds at a time. These 50 million 'moments of truth' are the moments that ultimately determine whether SAS will succeed or fail as a company. They are the moments when we must prove to our customers that SAS is their best alternative.
Jan Carlzon
#5. We have 50,000 moments of truth every day.
Jan Carlzon
#6. Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants
even women!
new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation.
Selma James
#8. Writing is performative - and while, yes, the words in essence will be there "forever," poems are often about ecstatic moments rather than trying to pin down a particular truth of an event.
Denise Duhamel
#9. Light falls upon a dew drop; rewarding all who are blessed to witness the moments of its glisten.
Truth Devour
#10. Selah Moments: those times we lean into God's presence, hear His voice, and willingly receive the golden nuggets of truth-revelation He gifts us with.
Jo Ann Fore
#11. The past is gone. The future never arrives. In truth, there is no life outside of this moment!
Leonard Jacobson
#12. Bliss and joy come in moments of living our highest truth
moments when what we do is consistent with our archetypal depths. It's when we are most authentic and trusting, and feel that whatever we are doing, which can be quite ordinary, is nonetheless sacred.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
#13. Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments.
Jack London
#14. In truth, our aliveness depends on our ability to sustain wonder:
to lengthen the moments we are truly uncovered, to be still and quiet
till all the elements of the earth and all the secrets of the oceans
stir the aspects of life waiting within us.
Mark Nepo
#15. One truth that has helped me accept some of the most difficult moments and heartbreaking decisions in my life is that I already have all for which I ask. I am blessed! I am delivered from my worries!
Carlos Wallace
#17. There are moments in time that can never be understood, at least not fully. Times we only read about in history books, or see in movies, barely a re-creation of the truth. But it takes more than reading about it or putting on the costumes to understand what history really means.
Leslie Tall Manning
#18. One of the happiest moments of life is when you learn to love without expecting any return.
Debasish Mridha
#19. From the moment we claim the truth of being the beloved, we are faced with the call to become who we are.
Henri Nouwen
#20. Once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived ... The amount of points that can be gained (and saved) by correct endgame play is enormous, yet often underestimated.
Edmar Mednis
#21. Bear patiently your exile and the dryness of your mind. The time will come when I will make you forget these painful moments and you will enjoy inward quietness. I will open the Bible for you and you will be thrilled by your new understanding of my truth.
Thomas A Kempis
#22. The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it histruth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced a falsehood.
Sherwood Anderson
#23. 'Eureka' moments are very, very rare in my experience. It normally takes several weeks of experiments to tease out the truth, even when you have a really pretty good idea of what is going on.
Tim Hunt
#24. Dance with me through moments of surreality. We are one.
Truth Devour
#25. At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.
Chuck Yeager
#26. Those terms haunt me, -- in the way of all aspersions that contain a germ of truth. I have been unable to banish them. They sit on my shoulders and mutter in my ears during all my moments of doubt.
Alyson Foster
#27. Saint Augustine once admonished that we should never use the truth to injure. I believe there are dark and uncertain moments in our lives when it's not wrong for each of us to feel that he wrote those words especially for us.
James Lee Burke
#28. The richness of a moment comes when it's both full and empty at the same time. The truth is, we live simultaneously in time and timelessness.
Ram Dass
#29. It is a rare moment where one can glimpse the truth of lost moments, bonds that were chosen and broken, and the decisions that remain through time and distance.
Ava Leigh Stewart
#30. The truth is you and I are in control of only two things - how we prepare for what might happen and how we respond to what just happened. The moment when things actually do happen belongs to God.
DeVon Franklin
#31. The recognition of the truth that we get in the artist's work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. We did not know it before, but the moment it is shown to us, we know that, somehow or other, we had always
known it.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#32. For those moments, life is worth living. Moments of kindness, caring, and loving.
Debasish Mridha
#34. That was the dream of Montparnasse: to live for the moments of the greatest intensity, to find in them a truthful inspiration, and to hell with all the rest.
Philip Sington
#35. People aren't interested in the truth, Dafar. They're interested in what keeps them safe. They're interested in being looked after. They're interested in a tale being spun ... Mighty men have moments of great despair that common people do not want to know about.
Melina Marchetta
#36. The space between between breaths is measured in moments. But the space between Truths..? Lifetimes.
Brooke Burgess
#37. It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
#38. About every year or two, there is a moment of truth where there's some new development in the marketplace, some new technology, some sort of existential crisis. You just have to be vigilant about looking out for those moments.
Jeremy Stoppelman
#39. But it happens, and I am thankful enough for that, for those fleeting, wakeful moments of beauty and truth. They are the real joy of being human, brief matches that flare in the dark.
Roger Housden
#40. Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.
W. H. Murray
#41. For a few moments, the secrets of the universe are opened to us. Life is a cheap parlor trick. That's the miserable truth.
Jonathan Nolan
#42. When DEATH stares in our faces..
We can just 'stare' back at it!
'All' falls flat in the deathly moments!
No explanations, no reasons, no justifications sound good enough!! Acceptance alone stands out as the truth!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#43. After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad
middle game, there is hope for the endgame. But once you are
in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived
Edmar Mednis
#44. The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition.
Arthur Koestler
#45. Of course the sad truth is that if we are not present to the moment, our true love could come and go and we wouldn't even notice.
Joshua Waitzkin
#46. Yes, sex is troublesome and beautiful. And only when we drop our expectations, and know that we'll have moments of great sex and moments when our sexuality confounds, pains, or infuriates us, will we be liberated to enjoy it in a way that's true to ourselves.
Alexandra Katehakis
#47. Flowers are not symbols of power. Flowers are too brief, too frail, to elicit much hope of eternity. In truth, flowers are far removed from the human condition and from all human hope. For a moment, in that moment, flowers are simply beautiful.
Sharman Apt Russell
#48. It was an uncomfortable feeling, staring into the darkest moments of someone's soul without them knowing.
Catherine Doyle
#49. There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, "That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults." Common experience teaches the contrary. Wine throws a man out of himself, and infuses dualities into the mind which she is a stranger to in her sober moments.
Joseph Addison
#50. Sometimes the heart makes decisions the mind cannot, and though we know that the heart is deceitful above all things, we know that at rare moments of stress and profound loss it can be purged pure by suffering.
Dean Koontz
#51. The turning point is that moment of naked acceptance of the truth.
Ellyn Stern
#52. But I knew the truth and that's why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#53. One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth,
P.G. Wodehouse
#54. Those moments you are most joyful,
those moments are most blissful,
and those moments of life are most useful.
Debasish Mridha
#55. When everything changes we learn who we really are. What's really important. What we want
most. We discover the truth in moments of disarray.
Megan Hart
#56. To think because you have been "saved" that you are now sane is insanity. God doesn't fix the mind. He only gives you opportunities to have moments of clarity. It is your job to climb the mountain and see above the clouds for yourself, not to believe the congregation's interpretation of the view.
Shannon L. Alder
#57. I feel the freedom of being able to find comedy in the darkest moments because it makes it way more interesting, I think. Otherwise, you're just cruising down a path that's been traveled millions of times. It's cool to find the strange truth in those moments.
Kevin Durand
#58. Look back on your life and find those moments of giving. Fill life with those moments; life will be worth living.
Debasish Mridha
#59. Moments later, when she saw the look of control returning to his face, she said, Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
Ayn Rand
#60. Anything is possible, and the truth is any human being at any given moment, no matter how good they are - not only at their job but also as a person - they're capable of anything, and it's not always a conscious thing.
Sarah Paulson
#61. So treasure your moments of happiness, the glimpses you see of truth, the nights you've been loved. That's all you've got.
Fay Weldon
#62. Though time seems to expand or contract between idle and frantic moments, it passes the same in both: second by second. You can neither lose it or create it. Use it wisely.
Gavin Mills
#64. I'm not playing a comedy. I want to be playing the truth of the moment, and then have the comedy come out.
Zooey Deschanel
#65. God's truth? How long do these intolerable moments last for God? A trillionth of second? The very life of any creature is a quick-fading spark in fathomless darkness. That's God's truth.
Anthony Doerr
#66. Moments of love is life, a life is for moments of love.
Debasish Mridha
#67. There are no perfect days, only happy moments in time when each of us can reaffirm our own truth.
Gulfrey Clarke
#68. The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion which, we know not how, the mind transmutes into thought.
George Gissing
#69. The happiest moment will be those moments when you give yourself in the service of others.
Debasish Mridha
#70. That's the truth, I guess. We don't catch moments in the passing. We don't catch them at all. We just reach and scramble and wish for fairy godmothers and Prince Charmings. It's too bad none of it is real. It really is too bad.
Amy Zhang
#71. Unlike a lot of British directors, I hadn't done any theater. But, I had a great mentor who said, What you're looking for is exactly the same thing you've done in your documentaries, which is moments of emotional truth.
Susanna White
#72. The truth is, I would've felt empty anywhere. I realize now that through a million moments of adventure and excitement, I was only trying to make up for the one moment I wanted to forget.
Melissa Tagg
#73. If you dwell often on the truth that God is Lord and orders everything, even the frustrations, for our sanctification (Hebrews 12:511; cf. Romans 8:28ff.), you will find yourself able increasingly, even in the most maddening moments, to "keep your cool" - and that is best of all.
J.I. Packer
#74. Those moments you spend for love are the extraordinary moments of life.
Debasish Mridha
#75. Let us celebrate every little beauty, every little kindness, joy, love, and happiness; and let us express our deepest gratitude for those moments of joy.
Debasish Mridha
#76. Only few moments of love has greater value than entire life
Nitin Yaduvanshi
#77. In those moments it's hard to remember that an angry voice is an invisible thing incapable of drawing blood.
Amanda Howells
#78. Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#79. Our life is sweet, short, and bright. We have enough moments to enjoy the delights of life.
Debasish Mridha
#80. The most powerful political moments for me come when I feel like my actions are aligned with a certain truth. I can feel it. When I'm talking to a group and I'm saying something truthful, I can feel a power that comes out of those statements that is different than when I'm just being glib or clever.
Barack Obama
#81. The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
M. Scott Peck
#82. What I do have to get across is the truth of the moment within the given scene. It's my job, as a director and screenwriter, to create the environment in which all those moments will come together eventually.
James Gray
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