Top 100 Truly Quotes
#1. People like me, LB, the truly great ones ... we are always alone.
Eoin Colfer
#2. The cross pollination of disciplines is fundamental to truly revolutionary advances in our culture.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#3. A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.
Daisaku Ikeda
#4. What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.
Anna Jameson
#5. What's truly important
and what I find myself forgetting and having to relearn
is that right here, right now, I am free. Free to be myself and to express myself.
Kat Von D.
#6. Mental illnesses are so strange. A physical problem we can understand. But when the mind works irrationally, well, by its very definition, the rational mind cannot truly relate.
Harlan Coben
#7. The only way to get what you want is to admit you don't really know what you want. But in the end, or course, you never truly get what you want. So just enjoy the ride.
Gregor Collins
#8. Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.
John R.W. Stott
#9. Genuine acceptance is based on knowledge. You cant truly accept someone unless you know them.
Paul Ellis
#10. Most magick I have experienced can be written off as a stew of psychology and coincidence, and I truly believe this is where magick is best worked.
Thomm Quackenbush
#11. The first step in becoming a truly happy person is to make peace with your life. The second step will be to spread that peace into your environment.
Gracia Hunter
#12. Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
Hermann Hesse
#13. Not truly living in the present moment and later regretting is like closing your eyes when a peacock is dancing, only to want to see it dance once it is gone.-RVM
R.v.m.
#14. To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.
Bill Crawford
#15. Rarely do I truly understand the disease which ails me. Therefore, rarely do I truly understand the fix that would cure me. And so maybe I should truly contemplate how rarely I recognize that God understands both.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#16. I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged.
Meghan Daum
#17. A few primary keys to becoming a leader in business include having a clear intent or purpose, a truly inspiring vision, a grand message to share, a genuine social calling and a targeted niche to serve.
John Frederick Demartini
#18. A wave of intense happiness washed over me, and I told myself to carry this moment as a talisman of a time in my life when I was both truly content and lucky enough to realize it.
Heather Cocks
#19. If you love everyone and everything sincerely then you are truly at peace.
Matthew Donnelly
#21. I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
Yaya DaCosta
#22. Some of us teach ourselves and our children to love the superficial outer; our looks, hair, skin, clothes rather than the greater beauty that resides within whereas it is that inner beauty that really defines you and who you truly are
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#23. We all draw different lines. Sometimes they intersect. Sometimes they don't. We agree on forms of evil, but judge degrees of it, saying only the worst of humanity is truly bad. And everything along the grey lines is subject to opinion.
Mike Wech
#24. New York. Truly, this is the only city that I feel this energy. Everyone is accepted. This is the first place that I felt open and that I can do everything.
Elie Tahari
#25. Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.
Margaret Atwood
#26. A truly great piano is one that enables you to convey deep emotion
Sviatoslav Richter
#27. Take your light and take your love into the world as the only weapons that we need to make this world truly glorious, truly beautiful, and astonish all of life.
Hafsat Abiola
#28. Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly,
G.K. Chesterton
#29. If you focus on your competition, you will never deliver anything truly innovative.
Eric Schmidt
#30. Every dream that anyone ever has is theirs alone and they never manage to share it. And they never manage to remember it either. Not truly or accurately. Not as it was. Our memories and our vocabularies aren't up to the job.
Alex Garland
#32. When I'm assembling a book I concentrate as though I were writing a poem. A truly imagined arrangement will indicate gaps and generate new poems. I re-read the new poems in my folder in the hope that this might happen.
Michael Longley
#33. If we truly loved ourselves, we'd never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.
Sharon Salzberg
#34. We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.
William Pfaff
#35. I think a lot of self-identity and inner-personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, rather than as a reflection of the people who are around us, truly.
Aloe Blacc
#36. The truly incredible thing is were realizing that you can perform a two-and-a-half-hour gig without being high and still have a fantastic time.
Stevie Nicks
#37. I feel like I'm truly and genuinely proud and unafraid. I'm not scared of who I am.
Drake
#38. Truly, I've learned more theology living in poor neighborhoods than in classrooms. At times I wonder if the questions of traditional theology have any meaning for the poor. And "the poor" here mean eighty percent of the population! (Ivone Gebara, p. 209)
Mev Puleo
#39. The truly brave man is not the man who does not feel fear but the man who overcomes it.
H.G.Wells
#40. I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.
Tom Hooper
#41. When we truly are putting others first, we cannot but feel at peace with ourselves.
Eknath Easwaran
#42. When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.
Shane Claiborne
#43. You cannot truly enjoy a flower until you can see her inner beauty and feel her purpose of life.
Debasish Mridha
#44. There is giving, and there is knowingness. Some have generosity and compassion but no true knowledge. Some have knowledge but no self-sacrifice. When both are present, that person is blessed and prosperous. Such a being is truly incomparable.
Rumi
#45. The ability to seize initiative is the most essential quality of any truly successful manager.
Sumantra Ghoshal
#46. Henry Kissinger is possessed of a truly superior intelligence, in addition to which he has two qualities which, unfortunately, many great men lack: he is able to listen and he has a very subtle sense of humour.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
#47. He wanted to dismiss Saint Rosaline's comments out of hand, but this was impossible because he knew that the comments came from the recesses of this own mink. Either that, or he was truly going mad, which at this point seemed like an attractive option.
Suzanne Harper
#48. Adolescence in my growing up period was truly "Happy Days," the title of a TV show connotating the quality of this life period.
Virgil Miller Newton
#49. I suppose I might never have known or believed that love could be so strong if I hadn't seen it dragged through this hell. Now I know that love can truly endure anything.
Willow Aster
#50. People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.
Dogen
#51. If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism.
Fidel Castro
#53. A truly free society protects all faiths, and true faith protects a free society.
Rick Warren
#54. That's sort of what I like about this character is that he's not the good guy, he's not truly the bad guy.
Nicholas Lea
#55. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#56. I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.
Barbara Amiel
#57. THE MAGICIAN
They asked St. Germain's manservant if his master was truly a thousand years old, as it was rumored he had claimed.
'How would I know?" the man replied. "I have only been in the master's employ for three hundred years.
Neil Gaiman
#58. The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
James Madison
#60. Without death, there is hardly any threat strong enough to truly appreciate human life. He thinks: I am as good as dead
too afraid to live, only waiting, never taking a risk
I am as good as dead already.
Joe Meno
#61. The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
David Foster Wallace
#62. He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world's store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library.
Milan Kundera
#63. It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Samuel Butler
#64. The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.
Robert Olen Butler
#65. My heart has always been truly convinced that in serving the cause of America, I am fighting for the interests of France.
Marquis De Lafayette
#66. This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.
Robert Byrd
#67. The things that trip a person into love aren't the grand, sweeping traits you expect (must adore Waugh, display altruism, respect my space). The truly endearing properties are the small and apparently trivial gestures and habits that differentiate us one from another.
S.A. Jones
#68. Her fear was infectious, and though I was too young to truly know terror, I felt it in my heart and trembled.
Darren Shan
#69. A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market ... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest.
Elle Macpherson
#70. If you were truly mine, I would never share you."
"Possessive, are you?"
"Extremely.
Evangeline Anderson
#71. Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear.
William Shakespeare
#72. You'll never truly know what alone is, until you're on the brink of death with no one to rely on. But after finding the strength to save yourself, you realize that the person you'll ever need is yourself.
Gabriel Common
#73. Faith is only a word if there is no love at its center, so flaccid and lifeless, vague and hollow - not anything you could truly feel.
Elif Shafak
#74. Most people only work enough so that it feels like work, whereas successful people work at a pace that gets such satisfying results that work is a reward. Truly successful people don't even call it work; for them, it's a passion. Why? Because they do enough to win!
Grant Cardone
#75. Success is getting to a point where you'd be truly OK with losing everything you have and starting over.
Tony Hsieh
#76. Truly, when I say the show has given me everything, it's given me everything.
John Krasinski
#77. If you truly own who you are, no one can use you against you.
Chris Colfer
#78. I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by the desire of possession, but simply by unadorned temptation itself.
Yukio Mishima
#79. Truly, my bed is the greatest place in the world. I
Rae Carson
#80. Truly Christian conduct is not predicated on whether I have the right to do something, but whether my conduct is helpful to those about me.
Gordon D. Fee
#81. Success on any level begins when you accept responsibility for creating life what you want. You are the only person who can truly make it happen. Not your boss, your business partner, your financial planner, your spouse of life-partner. Just you.
Paul Clitheroe
#82. You say, "Well, I am not going to be anyone's 'yes man.' If I see something wrong in a person, I'm going to warn others about it." Fine. But beware that what you are calling "courage to speak out" is not more truly a deception masking a rebellious, dishonouring attitude.
Francis Frangipane
#83. When one looks truly at the good side of everyone, others come to love him very naturally, and he does not need even a speck of flattery.
Abraham Isaac Kook
#84. You showed me what love truly is just by giving yours so selflessly. I wasn't made for love. It wasn't [woven]into the fabric of my being. I didn't know what it was, what I was looking for, what I needed. I had no point of reference, no examples, nothing. Until you.
Sylvia Day
#85. I'm truly blessed to be where I am and accomplish what I have.
Ryan Howard
#86. A country where God is not honored cannot be truly successful
Sunday Adelaja
#87. You don't learn to write by going through a series of preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling with a real subject that truly matters to you.
Ralph Fletcher
#88. The sun weeps because it can no longer caress your skin or warm your lips." He sifted his fingers through my hair. "I do not envy the sun, Eva. But I truly hate the moon, because its light touches you in all the ways I cannot.
Michele Bardsley
#89. I might not survive Clare. She was truly my ultimate temptation. I never wanted anything more and yet fought so hard against it. But I knew I needed this. I knew she needed this. I had to start this off right. She deserved it, she deserved everything.
J.L. Berg
#90. Some things we must learn through experience. That is how one truly lives. -Rovender
Tony DiTerlizzi
#91. Neeva looked at the puddle of Christ's tears on the floor. When the power of Jesus fails you, then you know you truly are shit out of luck
Guillermo Del Toro
#92. If you truly feared failure, you'd be very successful.
Barbara Sher
#93. A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such terms; but the application of this description in no way precludes the simultaneous applicability of an entirely different description.
William James
#94. All would be well when she was truly his; in his bed and in his bank ... and of course in his heart, too.
John Fowles
#95. We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.
Stephen Charnock
#96. Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.
Anonymous
#97. Playful arising is authorized by both risk and trust in the process and in oneself. To be truly playful and improvisational one must not look for results.
Joshua L. Goldberg
#98. I never truly believed that human business was some serious thing.
Albert Camus
#99. A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man.
Suzanne Curchod
#100. That someone would want another human being to suffer, or would even tolerate the idea, for committing no crime at all but being reasonable, is truly frightening. A religion that breeds such people is a genuine plague upon the earth.
Richard Carrier
