Top 100 Truest Quotes
#1. He (Captain Hook) was never more sinister than when he was most polite, which is probably the truest test of breeding.
J.M. Barrie
#2. Light of compassion and the light of wisdom that arises from our deepest and truest nature surpasses all other lights.
Amit Ray
#3. physical expressions of love were often more important than words because you can't fake a touch. Your intentions are clear. Even if you're having sex with someone, it's clear whether it's fucking or making love. It's the truest way you can express yourself.
R.L. Merrill
#4. Wasn't so much that I didn't have faith in my team, but that I maintained the truest fans always reverted to a doomsday position in the same way that parents always worried about tragedy befalling their children.
Emily Giffin
#5. You're reluctant to give too much away when you're going to put it out there for other people. It's harder writing your truest fears and loves and guilts, because you're not sure when you're writing the right story.
Kathleen Edwards
#6. Custine described them as 'automata inconvenienced with a soul': a description true, perhaps, of all bureaucrats fearful for their jobs but truest of all where power is both arbitrary and completely centralised, as it was in Russia.
Theodore Dalrymple
#7. Men tell stories," I say. It is the truest, simplest answer to his question. "Women get on with it.
Kristin Hannah
#8. The truest of loves transcends even the greatest of insecurities.
Solange Nicole
#9. One of the truest signs of strength is accepting one's own weaknesses.
Tadahiko Nagao
#10. We are fully human only while playing, and we play only when we are
human in the truest sense of the word.
Rudolf Steiner
#11. So I said, "I'll miss you. You are the truest friend I've ever had."
I could see that my words were a knife in his gut. Yet, it seemed kinder than the alternative, for him to know I love him, but that I'm leaving anyway.
Alex Flinn
#12. One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself and the very few people who share one's truest life. To be a 'free lord' in secret is better than being a public slave, a willing accomplice of repression and injustice.
Hakim Bey
#13. Marriage in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#14. It was the truest, purest, saddest thing she had ever heard spoken. It was like hearing gospel for the first time, how it shocked you, how it made you afraid because you thought no one could see inside you.
Sarah Addison Allen
#15. The truest form of love is where you are able to put your own needs aside to do what is best for the one you love. If you could know where I am now and if you love as you say you do, you would never ever wish me back from the love and the comfort and the bliss of where I am and where I wait for you.
Kate McGahan
#16. To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest nature, are of value.
Sharon Salzberg
#17. Laying a hand on his heart, she timed its beats to her own. And knew the truest magic was there.
Nora Roberts
#18. [ ... ] she sees through yoy and knowsyour truest heart, but loves you anyway, [ ... ]
Dean Koontz
#19. The truest picture of life in the past incorporated the interplay of all aspects of life, the good and the bad, the strong and the weak. It was no good pretending anything else.
Michael Crichton
#20. I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine, the truest part of us.
Sue Monk Kidd
#21. Nothing ever comes to an end. Wherever one has sunk roots that emanate from one's best or truest self, one will always find a home.
Liv Ullmann
#22. The truest happiness, he said, lay in working hard and living frugally.
George Orwell
#23. 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
#24. I believe that the happiest of all Christians and the truest of Christians are those who never dare to doubt God, but take His Word simply as it stands, and believe it, and ask no questions, just feeling assured that if God has said it, it will be so.
Charles Spurgeon
#25. What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.
Laura Hillenbrand
#26. Truth is always an interior and inexplicable contact. My truest life is unrecognizable, extremely interior and there is not a single word that defines it. My heart has emptied itself of every desire and been reduced to its own final or primary beat.
Clarice Lispector
#27. ... the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element ...
Derek Walcott
#28. The next time you find yourself racing quickly down the street, know that you're not only running to your next appointment, you are literally running from contact with your truest feelings, deepest needs and most valuable insights.
Karen Salmansohn
#29. And always the animals from each trip you bring back a gaze a pose a gesture that points to the truest of humanity better than images of humanity itself
Chris Marker
#30. Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.
Katharine Lee Bates
#31. The truest state of humanity is that you're living for other people.
Joe Flanigan
#33. Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#34. Something outrageous, in the truest sense of the word, is always happening. On social networks, we're always voicing our reactions to these outrageous events. We read essays and 'think pieces' about these outrageous events. We comment on the commentary. We do this because we can.
Roxane Gay
#35. The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.
Richard Paul Evans
#36. We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's great refusals were sometimes the true answers to our truest prayer.
Peter Forsyth
#37. Keep the imagination sane
that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#38. There are two ways of defending a castle; one by shutting yourself up in it, and guarding every loop-hole; the other by making it an open centre of operations from which all the surrounding country may be subdued. Is not the last the truest safety?
Phillips Brooks
#39. We didn't speak our truest thoughts, and paraphrased our souls until we didn't know our feelings, and so were strangers to ourselves.
Adam Novy
#40. 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
#41. But, then, the truest perceptions of life, for me at least, have always proved to be the most elusive and the most shortlived
Arun Joshi
#42. What I count as real prosperity ... is the growth in a knowledge of God, and in a testimony, and in the power to live the gospel and to inspire our families to do the same. That is prosperity of the truest kind.
Heber J. Grant
#43. Death is your truest friend, and your most reliable adviser. If you have doubts about the course of your life, you have only to consult your death for the proper direction. Death will never lie to you.
Florinda Donner
#44. Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at least the only kind of power I'm interested in.
Zachary Schomburg
#45. Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
Thomas Browne
#46. Time is the truest form of wealth. And the beauty is, we are all born equally rich in time.
Rolf Potts
#47. Then he said the truest thing about their relationship. He said, We didn't really fall in love. What we did was collide at the intersection of your life and mine.
Harlan Ellison
#48. Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
John Henry Newman
#49. The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.
Steve Hall
#50. The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#51. It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.
Mark Twain
#52. Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.
Aaron Swartz
#53. The truest treasure is a soul who believes in its own existence
Jewel
#54. A nation discovers its truest dignity when it cherishes the dignity of those from whom it has not heard for a very long time.
Sally Magnusson
#55. Deep within all of us there is a yearning to be brave. And like all of our deepest, truest and best yearning, it comes from how we were made.Courage-the power to do the right thing even when it is scary and hard- resonates deeply with the original shape of our soul.
Gary Haugen
#56. The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.
Mahatma Gandhi
#57. He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
Charles Caleb Colton
#58. Sisters and brothers are the truest, purest forms of love, family and friendship, knowing when to hold you and when to challenge you, but always being a part of you.
Carol Ann Albright-Eastman
#59. My own soul is my most faithful friend. My own heart, my truest confidant
Babur
#60. A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.
Jean Cocteau
#61. The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#62. Some writers need to sink in order to feel what their characters feel; in order to write their characters with the truest feeling possible. Those closest to those writers end up feeling the effects of that process. It takes a strong person to be with an emphatic writer.
Lori Goodwin
#63. It is past all question, and agreed on by all sides, that no religion will save a man who is not serious, sincere, and diligent in it. If thou be of the truest religion in the world, and are not true thyself to that religion, the religion is good, but it is none of thine.
Richard Baxter
#64. Kings imagine they are powerful because they command armies. But in their truest moments, they finally learn who they are. Warriors fight wars, Asura. While kings die weak men.
John Arcudi
#65. I think in music there is just something inherently spiritual in singing together and harmonizing, and gospel is the truest form of that.
Luke Pritchard
#67. The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.
Gloria Steinem
#68. False lovers come with much speech to convince.
The truest love says less, but has the ability to capture your soul.
Zarina Bibi
#69. He whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#70. Like I said before, the truest part of a person is always the ugliest. But I'm ugly too, so you're not alone.
E.K. Blair
#71. But once in a while I see a child crying with the deepest of desperation, and I think it is one of the truest sounds a child can make.
Elizabeth Strout
#72. I don't think there's a single dumbass thing I've done in my adult life that I didn't know was a dumbass thing to do while I was doing it. Even when I justified it to myself - as I did every damn time - the truest part of me knew I was doing the wrong thing. Always.
Cheryl Strayed
#74. Like all immigrants, he seemed to have an unerring instinct for the oldest, truest words in his new language. The way he said the word, it felt free of the treacherous weight of mate
Richard Flanagan
#76. Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
Mahatma Gandhi
#77. The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express'd in arbitrary and rhyming metre, any more than the greatest eloquence, or the truest power and passion.
Walt Whitman
#78. In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not. C. S. Lewis
Randy Alcorn
#79. When you constantly question the motives of others you can't see them in their truest form.
Jayce O'Neal
#80. We think we know people, and dismiss the scenes as aberrations, as the lightning strikes of madness, but surely we are wrong. Surely these are the truest moments of their lives.
Andrew Sean Greer
#81. By gentle words and silent acts of kindness, he had won her reverence and her trust, which now had deepened into woman's truest, purest love.
Louisa May Alcott
#82. What we decide to do in the face of adversity is perhaps the truest measure of character.
Ian Usher
#83. But it rained all the time, fog covered the fields, and by then he was reading Tolstoy. There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things. A Confession was a book like that.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#84. Indianapolis proved to be the perfect Super Bowl city, accommodating in the truest sense of the word.
Jane Leavy
#85. The truest luxury of long-term wealth was that no one in the family thought about money anymore.
Ramona Ausubel
#87. Although her eyes are neither golden nor heavenly blue, Terri Stambaugh has the vision of an angel, for she sees through you and knows your truest heart, but loves you anyway, in spite of all the ways that you have fallen from a state of grace.
Dean Koontz
#89. If you take that risk, if you take that chance, if you tell the truest, hardest, deepest story you have within you, you're not going to step into the light and find that you're there alone. That you're going to be surrounded by people who are there with you.
Cheryl Strayed
#91. To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
William James
#92. It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.
Eliza Acton
#93. Love is accepting your truest, most authentic expression of self, and allowing yourself to do the same with others.
Grace Gealey
#95. It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country its truest and most durable celebrity.
James Madison
#96. I think that more and more there's a sense that the best performances I can give are the ones that are the truest to who I am. The further I move away from who I am, the worse they are.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#97. Worship in the truest sense takes place only when our full attention is on God - on His glory, power, majesty, love and compassion.
Billy Graham
#98. It was a democracy in the truest and most frustrating and most rewarding sense of the word. Anybody could come in and say, "You know, I'm just not cool with that." We'd be like, "Who's that?" "Oh, I was just cleaning the trailers." It was nuts.
Robert Downey Jr.
#99. The truest sayings are paradoxical.
Laozi
#100. Most people are so stuck in their egos that everything revolves around me, me, and more me. But if you want to be rich in the truest sense of the word, it can't only be about you. It has to include adding value to other people's lives.
T. Harv Eker
