Inspirational Truth Quotes

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. ~ Philip Pullman

Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing. ~ Augustine Of Hippo

Tell the truth, because sooner or later the public will find out anyway. And if the public doesn't like what you are doing, change your policies and bring them into line with what people want. ~ Ivy Lee

Certain people will be upset when you speak the truth. They might get mad. They might get really mad. That's because they are still living the lie you've exposed. Stay strong. Speak truth. Do not allow yourself to get pulled back into their lie just to make others happy and yourself miserable. You are free. Stay free. ~ Toni Sorenson

Today you make good and bad friends,but tomorrow,good friends makes you. ~ Nowgoing Traveler

The truth is you can acquire any quality you want by acting as though you already have it. ~ Joseph Murphy

If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable. ~ Brandon Sanderson

Truth is a T-Rex. Let it out and you won't need to defend it. It'll defend itself. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now. ~ Joss Whedon

It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard. ~ May Sarton

Your love life should bring you love. If it doesn't, no matter how hard you try, if you are honest and fair and good, and you decide it's over and you need to go find love somewhere else, then...what more can the world ask of you? ~ Taylor Jenkins Reid

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was. ~ J.K. Rowling

Yes, we will all have cracks -
but that is how we break
without falling apart. ~ Timothy Joshua

Flowers grow best on dungheaps, as Shakespeare never tires of saying. ~ J.M. Coetzee

So that when man can be in great distress having been betrayed and deserted by all friends he may find consolation in the idea that an ever true friend was still there to help him, to support him and that He was Almighty and could do anything. The idea of God is helpful to man in distress.
Society has to fight out this belief as well as was fought the idol worship and the narrow conception of religion. Similarly, when man tries to stand on his own legs, and become a realist he shall have to throw the faith aside, and to face manfully all the distress, trouble, in which the circumstances may throw him. ~ Bhagat Singh

Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion. ~ Tennessee Williams

No! Try not! Do or do not, there is no try. ~ Yoda

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't get so focused on where you're going that you forget the people you're travelling with. There's no point reaching a destination if you arrive alone. ~ Shaun David Hutchinson

The Market knows, you see, when someone is acting to the best of their ability. The Market doesn't punish us for having limitations. It only reminds us that fair value applies to everyone. ~ Seanan McGuire

Not a single creature on earth has more or less right to be here. ~ Anthony Douglas Williams

No' is golden. 'No' is the kind of power the good witch wields. It's the way whole, healthy, emotionally evolved people manage to have relationships with jackasses while limiting the amount of jackass in their lives. ~ Cheryl Strayed

What is the point of your getting angry with another? By doing this you are like one who wants to hit another and picks up a burning ember or excrement in his hand and so first burns himself or makes himself stink. ~ Buddhaghosa

Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person. It's not always easy, that's for sure. But it's right. And sometimes doing the right thing feels good, even if it does end up in a trip to the principal's office. ~ Simone Elkeles

Nothing is build, just like that, everything around the world has some value and the purpose. ~ Santosh Kalwar

A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity. ~ Wally Lamb

The simple truth is ordinary, open and shared by all. ~ Cheryl Abram

It takes courage to become authentic. So many talk about the light but not enough speak the truth about the struggles it takes to get there and the tools to overcome it all. ~ Nikki Rowe

So but anyway, being funny is a way of not doing. Sit around and make jokes and be Mr. Funnypants and just make fun of everyone else's attempts to do something... So that's it. I'm going to start doing. ~ John Green

Truth is not the same for everyone whereas facts are. ~ John Day

Yet how could I not have believed Hitler a genius and unique when every day I saw and heard how the major personalities of the Reich fawned over him and worshipped him with total devotion. ~ Heinz Linge

Fear isn't what scares, it's reality that does scare ~ Sofia Reyes

Cultivate a passion for truth.
Pursue a life of charity.
Enjoy the beauty found in every day. ~ Lisa Shea

To know a British man is to understand accomplishment and the infinite purity of satisfaction. ~ The Awesome Nancy Harris

You have to keep looking on the bright, because you'll never find anything in the dark. ~ Zack W. Van

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. ~ Kahlil Gibran

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

Truth grows gradually in us, like a musician who plays a piece again and again until suddenly he hears it for the first time ~ Anne Michaels

If people do not have responsibility, do not expect them to behave responsibly. ~ Carne Ross

The person I like most is the one who points out my defects ~ Umar

We're all a little weird, Isabelle. It's our differences that make us unique and you shouldn't let anyone, even a boy you might like, tell you anything different. ~ Melyssa Winchester

Geoff told me once that part of being gay is the journey to accept who you are. It's often not an easy journey, but once you make it, you're stronger and happier because of it. ~ Andrew Grey

relationships would be without fault if we would just do what we would want our spouse to do in every situation. ~ Keivanni Ewers

Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself. ~ Robert Ludlum

Why was it so hard for Christians to come clean about the sins that had them by their throats? Because of pride? Because every Christian wanted every other Christian to think they were doing it right? That they were strong and good?

If so, that was idiotic.

His pastor liked to say that the church wasn't about helping sick people become well. It was about bringing dead people to life.

Every single one of them was dead except for Christ. ~ Becky Wade

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. ~ George Bernard Shaw

What do you want to be?
HAPPY. ~ Colleen Hoover

No legacy is so rich as honesty. ~ William Shakespeare

I pray that the world never runs out of dragons. I say that in all sincerity, though I have played a part in the death of one great wyrm. For the dragon is the quintessential enemy, the greatest foe, the unconquerable epitome of devastation. The dragon, above all other creatures, even the demons and the devils, evokes images of dark grandeur, of the greatest beast curled asleep on the greatest treasure hoard. They are the ultimate test of the hero and the ultimate fright of the child. They are older than the elves and more akin to the earth than the dwarves. The great dragons are the preternatural beast, the basic element of the beast, that darkest part of our imagination.

The wizards cannot tell you of their origin, though they believe that a great wizard, a god of wizards, must have played some role in the first spawning of the beast. The elves, with their long fables explaining the creation of every aspect of the world, have many ancient tales concerning the origin of the dragons, but they admit, privately, that they really have no idea of how the dragons came to be.
My own belief is more simple, and yet, more complicated by far. I believe that dragons appeared in the world immediately after the spawning of the first reasoning race. I do not credit any god of wizards with their creation, but rather, the most basic imagination wrought of unseen fears, of those first reasoning mortals.

We make the dragons as we make the gods, because we need them, ~ R.A. Salvatore

Only absurdities need to be defended. Truth speaks for itself. ~ Stefan Emunds

The truth is revealed when you are ready to receive it when you need it in order to move forward to take the next step in your journey. to move on toward your destiny. ~ Alyson Noel

The first step towards freedom is to choose truth. ~ Jo Ann Fore

The difference in the past and history is that the past is set in stone history is just an account from the guy with the strongest axe ~ Andy Andrews

Action is its own kind of thinking. We had to fight now: these people were a cancer who had crept into our stomachs and infected us all. We had to be surgeons, bold and clever, not thinkers and talkers. ~ John Marsden

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself. ~ James Allen

Words come alive from a page or script because both the writer and actor were brave enough to neither deny or invent their truth ~ Val Uchendu

But what I am done with is waiting for when things are better. I'm done waiting for the pain to be all gone. I'm done trying to keep it at bay. ~ Heidi Cullinan

I was genuinely surprised to read a novel that shows many sides of grief experienced by the main characters...that just is not acknowledged in real life today. So many are crying out but not allowing themselves to actually cry through the inner pain and anguish as we are created to do as humans beings. I have seen this working with kids.in schoo!s...with hospice patients as a chaplain, in one-on-one spiritual direction and in ministering a church. This is the first novelook I have read that deals with grief in a way that can help those reading it...and not believe they have to do it alone or with those closest to them without feeling they are being unfaithful to them. An inspirational truth-centered read! --- A Retired Minister ~ Abby Osman

Once you face the truth, the knowledge both empowers you and sets you free. ~ Jay Woodman

If we could only live on good food like that, he said to her somewhat loudly, we wouldn't have the country full of rotten teeth and rotten guts. Living in a bogswamp, eating cheap food and the streets paved with dust, horsedung and consumptives' spits. ~ James Joyce

One of the mistakes many of us make is that we feel sorry for ourselves, or for others, thinking that life should be fair, or that someday it will be. It's not and it won't. When we make this mistake we tend to spend a lot of time wallowing and/or complaining about what's wrong with life. "It's not fair," we complain, not realizing that, perhaps, it was never intended to be. ~ Richard Carlson

That as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon

In life there are heads and there are tails however when one starts to excrete thoughts out of the latter and proceed to relieve yourself out of the former than you've become too full of yourself. ~ Ryan Cayne

Something went klunk. Like a nickel dropping in a soda machine. One of those small insights that explains everything. This was puberty for these boys. Adolescence. The first date, the first kiss, the first chance to hold hands with someone special. Delayed, postponed, a decade's worth of longing
while everybody around you celebrates life, you pretend, suppress, inhibit, deprive yourself of you own joy
but finally ultimately, eventually, you find a place where you can have a taste of everything denied. ~ David Gerrold

When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future. ~ Rick Pitino

We are what we believe we are! ~ C.S. Lewis

The truth is always worth fighting for, even if it isn't what you expect or want it to be. ~ Carsen Taite

A truth that no one knows is still the truth. ~ Sharon Shinn

Everything Is Everything And Nothing Is Nothing. ~ Kalika

Truth is everlasting. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Whether your the brightest or the dullest
In the Midst of any darkness
Any spark can make a great diffrence
to the situation ~ Sandile Sean Mntla

Diversity is wisdom. ~ Sheila Renee Parker

You see, Momo,' he [Beppo Roadsweeper] told her one day, 'it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept.'
He gazed silently into space before continuing. 'And then you start to hurry,' he went on. 'You work faster and faster, and every time you look up there seems to be just as much left to sweep as before, and you try even harder, and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop - and still the street stretches away in front of you. That's not the way to do it.'
He pondered a while. Then he said, 'You must never think of the whole street at once, understand? You must only concentrate on the next step, the next breath, the next stroke of the broom, and the next, and the next. Nothing else.'
Again he paused for thought before adding, 'That way you enjoy your work, which is important, because then you make a good job of it. And that's how it ought to be.'
There was another long silence. At last he went on, 'And all at once, before you know it, you find you've swept the whole street clean, bit by bit. What's more, you aren't out of breath.' He nodded to himself. 'That's important, too,' he concluded. ~ Michael Ende

Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are. ~ Herman Melville

Healing begins at truth-telling. Tame your emotions and focus on what matters. ~ Jo Ann Fore

The restoration of man's inner eyes can hardly be expected in this day and age - unless, first of all, one were willing and determined simply to exclude from one's realm of life all those inane and contrived but titillating illusions incessantly generated by the entertainment industry. ~ Josef Pieper

If you don't love the job you do, then it's a job in itself to get up in the morning and go to work ~ Jimmy Tudeski

If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth. ~ Carl Sagan

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in. ~ Stephen Vizinczey

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at. ~ Christopher Fry

You make plans. Have it all figured out. Then life happens and it all changes. ~ Gary S. Geurin

If you're explaining, you're losing. ~ Ronald Reagan

But just because you love something, I added to myself, doesn't mean you'll ever be great. Not if you don't work. Most people stink at the things they love. ~ Amy Chua

He used to annoy me with sophistry that we all chose our destiny. Then one day I told him that that's great when fate offers you a nice set of destinies to choose from, but when you find yourself choosing between risking being raped, tortured and killed, or moving to another country to live like an alien without tongue, money or understanding, you are buggered either way. And that's not even to mention how easily he could navigate through the mine filed of his mistakes... ~ Dunya Look

This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique ... something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard. ~ Vaclav Havel

well', he said. 'most people aren't like you. They're locked up in themselves. They live in their castles - all alone. They're like me.'
'Well, everyone lives in his own castle', said Maude. 'But that's no reason not to lower the drawbridge and go out on visits. ~ Colin Higgins

I do not know how much they see through the Mist. I doubt it would matter to them if they knew the truth. Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters. ~ Rick Riordan

Only the Truth can set you free. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The age when Truth was just spoken of has come to an end; it is now the age when people can become complete. ~ Woo Myung

I was born handsome and I will die handsome. ~ Santosh Kalwar

I do all my work to escape myself. I don't believe in looking into yourself. If you do this, you just discover a lot of shit. I think what we should do is throw ourselves out of ourselves. The truth is not deep in ourselves. The truth is outside. ~ Slavoj Zizek

As Christians you should be like bridges to Heaven; letting people walk on you to get there. ~ Tommy Tran

Reprimands will not bring the waves into line. Anger will not alter the wind. Sadness will not bring back the Gulf Stream. The greatest freedom allotted to any human being is the freedom to choose one's attitude. Whatever the weather, it is my weather, and I must do my best to enjoy it. ~ Tori Murden McClure

The first step toward finding God
who is truth
is to discover the truth about myself; and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error ~ Thomas Merton

The worst thing to call somebody is crazy, it's dismissive. 'But I don't understand this person', so they're crazy. That's bullshit cause people are not crazy, they strong people, maybe their environment is a little sick. ~ Dave Chapelle

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it. ~ Maimonides

A key that can open many locks is called a master key, but a lock that can be opened by many keys is a shitty lock ~ Unknown

In case, I would prefer to say, that some circumstances should strike me in a different light to the one in which it struck you. Human reactions vary and so does human experience.

~Hercule Poirot ~ Agatha Christie

Lies do not lie, truth do, In the times of any act lies lie hidden behind. ~ Santosh Kalwar

We are here to create our dreams. We are here to make our life so beautifully true to ourselves that it can never be replicated, a stunning masterpiece added to the world. ~ Avina Celeste