Being True Quotes (page 27)

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• hope
• blessed
• fear

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• character
• rude
• true

True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude. Napoleon Bonaparte

• forever
• love
• feeling

True love was forever lost. The prince was never coming back to kiss me awake from my enchanted sleep. I was not a princess, after all. So what was the fairy-tale protocol for other kisses? The mundane kind that didn't break any spells? Maybe it would be easy - like holding his hand or having his arms around me. Maybe it would feel nice. Maybe it wouldn't fell like a betrayal. Besides, who was I betraying, anyway? Just myself. Stephenie Meyer

• success
• fear
• true

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful. Paul Sweeney

• thoughts
• true
• charity

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense. Emanuel Swedenborg

• powerful
• power
• consistency

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will. Jonathan Edwards

• self
• political
• consistency

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can. Alexander Pope

• true
• doubt
• being ignored

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant. Miguel de Unamuno

• lonely
• true
• true artists

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely. Yoko Ono

• true
• self respect
• short

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be. Ralph W. Sockman

• peace
• war
• true

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased. Gerrit Smith

• greatness
• consistency
• great

True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons

• good
• animal
• true

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts. David Herbert Lawrence

• courage
• job
• true

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is. Norman Schwarzkopf

• mindfulness
• true
• mind

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor. Friedrich Schiller