Top 77 True Definition Quotes
#1. Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential.
Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.
Rumi
#2. The true definition of a phony is a high flyer with low mileage; a person who offers a worldview from the comforts of his/her living room.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#3. The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.
John Buchan
#4. The true definition of a perennial: Any plant which, had it lived, would have bloomed year after year.
Henry Beard
#5. That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.
Annie Besant
#7. The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
Jonathan Swift
#8. It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.
Henry Fielding
#9. True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
Simone Weil
#10. The majority of a society is the true definition of the public.
Samuel Johnson
#11. The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.
Albert Einstein
#12. Greg Maddux is probably the best pitcher in all of baseball along with Roger Clemens. He's much more intelligent than I am because he doesn't have a 95 or 98 mph fastball. I would tell any pitcher who wants to be successful to watch him, because he's the true definition of a pitcher.
Randy Johnson
#13. Define normal, Clara?"
I laughed when I tried to figure out the true definition.
"Normal is a function on a washing machine, Alex." I said seriously.
Kathryn Morgan Parry
#14. How boys transitioned from bothersome pests to men who made her pulse skip a beat and her head swim in a flood of pleasurable sensations was beyond her. Perhaps this was the true definition of magic.
Jesikah Sundin
#15. I should have listened to my father. "Want to know the true definition of the triumph of hope over experience?" he would say. "Plan a fun family day out.
Jojo Moyes
#16. When people get married young, you don't really understand the true definition of marriage.
Kevin Hart
#18. People have needs and wants. We call that DEMAND. There are also people who service these needs and wants. That is called SUPPLY. If there were no people to serve, there would be no business. So the true definition of business is nothing more than: PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE.
Ian Fuhr
#19. 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
#20. I believe that the true definition of wealth is loving what you have rather than what you don't have.
Celso Cukierkorn
#21. Oh, Lord - responsibility. That word worked on me until I worked on it, until I looked at it carefully and broke it down into the two words that make its true definition: the ability to respond.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#22. But perhaps understanding didn't matter as much as I imagined. Perhaps that was the true definition of faith.
Anne Mateer
#23. Once you realize that your relationship is more important than your individual point of view. That's where the true definition of "union" lives.
Lauren Handel Zander
#24. Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.
Jonathan Swift
#25. He tried to carry himself like a major playa but he was far from it. On top of that he was short, thin with big eyes and black lips. He was the true definition of a creature.
George Sherman Hudson
#26. The ability to apply the discipline, the ability to do what needs to be done no matter how he feels inside, in my opinion, is the definition of a true professional.
Mike Tyson
#27. She asked me the definition of beauty. So I told her name in my reply!
Avijeet Das
#28. true beauty has nothing to do with outward appearances. The more we focus on what we look like on the outside, the more insecure we become. The world has an impossibly narrow definition of beauty, and by those standards, we'll never be thin enough, pretty enough, or good enough.
Kylie Bisutti
#29. Any relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are - by definition - abusive relationships. You'll be much better off when you let them go.
Steve Pavlina
#30. Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by being on the edge, become a part of the edge and thus a part of the boundary, the definition which gives the whole its shape?
Lucy Grealy
#31. I think it's sad that there seems to be one definition of beauty in Hollywood/New York. It's such a cliche, but I think it's true that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes.
Julianne Nicholson
#32. Maybe we don't have the same definition of about what's beautiful. So define it. Define true beauty.
Justina Chen
#33. The simplest definition of spirituality is self-awareness. Inside yourself is the peace, love, and truth that are attributes of God. When you contact this place, you meet your true self.
Deepak Chopra
#34. It's not easy having a good marriage
but I don't want easy. Easy doesn't make you grow. Easy doesn't make you think. I thank God everyday that I am married to a man who makes me think. That's my definition of true love.
Madonna
#35. He had a way of coaxing me to greater and greater heights, promising a burst of exhilaration as long as I could bear the fear. It felt like the definition of true love. And I didn't see how I could ever find it again.
Norman Ollestad
#36. Two main definitions of a true leader; His presence is noticed and his absence is felt ... !
Israelmore Ayivor
#37. In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
Gautama Buddha
#38. The word 'courage,' one of my favorite words, the root or the etymology of that word is 'cour,' which means heart. I think true courage is actually following your heart and not getting or succumbing to what other people's definition of what your life should be. Live your life.
Hill Harper
#39. I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
Audrey Hepburn
#40. Coolness is not an image that can be bought or worn. True cool is an attitude that is projected from a person who is extremely comfortable in their own skin.
Suzy Kassem
#41. Contrary to popular definitions, true tolerance means 'putting up with error' - not 'accepting all views'. We don't tolerate what we enjoy or endorse - say, chocolate, or roses, or Mozart's music. By definition, we tolerate what we don't approve of or what we believe to be false.
Paul Copan
#42. All true cultural creativity happens at the edges of the horizons of the possible, so by definition our most culturally creative endeavors have a high risk of failure.
Andy Crouch
#43. The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually "grasp" reality.
Alan W. Watts
#44. Now, here is my definition of success: A few simple Disciplines practiced every day. Do you see the distinction? A few disciplines ... Here's a little phrase we've all heard, An apple a day keeps the doctor away. And my question to you is, What if that's true? How simple and easy is that plan?
Jim Rohn
#45. What is Friendship, Definition of Friend, True Friendship - All about the meaning of true friends, what friendship means, meaning of friendship bracelets, poems, ring
Mark Vernon
#46. I profess no belief in God, which by definition is true, especially if we take the accepted definition of God. But to be an atheist is to also have a belief, and have a system, and I don't know that I like that either.
George Carlin
#47. Every romantic knows that love was never a noun; it is a verb.
Shannon L. Alder
#48. Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.
Stieg Larsson
#49. When there is nothing left to lose, we find the true self - the self that is whole, the self that is enough, the self that no longer looks to others for definition, or completion, or anything but companionship on the journey.
Elizabeth Lesser
#50. The definition of believe is to accept as true.
Kelly Elliott
#51. By definition, any belief is something that sombody hopes is true; conversely, a disbelief is a hope that something is not true. Neither has anything whatever to do with the real truth, except to obscure it.
William Gilkerson
#52. The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous. But its truth cannot be increased or its error diminished by its acceptance by the lexicographer. Each definition must stand on its own merits.
Benjamin Tucker
#53. Your identity should not be fully defined by what you do, by being a manager, a wife, a mother of children or a computer programmer
Sunday Adelaja
#54. The definition of a true friend is not someone who swoops in when you're going through a rough patch. True friendship is when someone can appreciate your happiness - celebrate your happiness, even when she's not necessarily happy herself.
Sarah Jio
#55. The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government.
Sarah Vowell
#56. Junior talks about it - relating to dozens if not hundreds of tribes. Even as the world tries to define you, narrow the definition of you, don't do it to yourself. True
Sherman Alexie
#57. When the desire for definition, self or otherwise, comes out of a desire for limitation rather than a desire for expansion, no true face can emerge.
Audre Lorde
#58. Epistemologists have come to a loose description of knowledge as justified true belief which is not based off false assumptions, but even this is fallacious as the prerequisite knowledge required for justification makes this a circular definition.
Chris Matakas
#59. It seems to me that those who claim to be 'true' and 'bible believing' Christians and yet spend all their time and energy spreading unhappiness and hatred for others - and are themselves consumed by it - are by the very definition of the term - false prophets.
Christina Engela
#60. The first definition of love is to be there. This is a practice. How can you love if you are not there? In order to love you have to be there, body and mind united. A true lover knows that the practice of mindfulness is the foundation of true love.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#61. Crazy by definition is
Knowing that true sanity is
A figment of the educated mind
Caleb Warta
#62. There is however no ultimate definition of success but you should understand that whatever you view as your definition of success it should be built on true happiness. Something
Brad Shannon
#63. To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
Vincent D'Onofrio
#64. ...the true value of an offering isn't measured by how much we give. It's measured by how much we keep...
By definition, a sacrifice must involve sacrifice...
Mark Batterson
#65. Maybe that's the definition of true contentment: choosing to rest in who God is, regardless of the circumstances.
Stephanie Rische
#66. True love, by definition, means "someone that is truly loved". But true love must be reciprocated, or it is only excrutiatingly unbearable and devistating - a never-ending lonely night in an empty room.
A.M. Hudson
#67. I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.
Richard K. Morgan
#68. Philosophy is an act of seduction between one true lover and another, most often the philosopher and himself.
Neel Burton
#69. The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations.
Glenn Greenwald
#70. Once you make the requisite personal commitment to make your success deliberate, that commitment must translate into a definition of higher personal standards meant to depict the true impression of what you have become or are becoming within.
Archibald Marwizi
#71. Later, her first intense, serious love affair, yes then she'd lost something more tangible, if undefinable: her heart? her independence? her control of, definition of, self? That first true loss, the furious bafflement of it. And never again quite so assured, confident.
Joyce Carol Oates
#72. One definition of genius is the ability to make connections that other people don't make. That ability to make connections - true learning - happens at quiet times.
Maura Nevel Thomas
#73. That is the definition of a true murderer. One that considers his actions, has the mental capacity to understand the consequences, and chooses to kill.
Destiny Booze
#74. Ahimsa is the very definition of woman and there is no place for untruth in her heart. If she is true to herself she is no longer Abala
the weak, but she is Sabala
the strong ...
Mahatma Gandhi
#75. My definition of beauty is simplicity, elegance, and sensuality. I think that when a woman is in harmony with herself and remains true to her values, she will glow naturally.
Megan Fox
#76. My definition of bad-ass is that I'm a force of nature and true spirit. I'm self-admitting that, and it sounds vain to say that, but I am.
Idris Elba
#77. The following is, regrettably, a true story. Some of the names and identifying characteristics have been changed to protect the innocent. Though few of the people involved were innocent by any definition whatsoever.
English Teacher X
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