82 True Quotes For Inspiration

In a world filled with constant noise and endless information, finding genuine inspiration can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. True quotes have the remarkable ability to cut through the chaos, offering wisdom, comfort, and motivation when we need it most. They've been shared through generations, each word carrying the weight of experience and authenticity. Whether you're seeking a spark for personal growth, a moment of reflection, or just a touch of encouragement to face the day's challenges, exploring a carefully curated collection of true quotes can provide the inspiration your soul craves. Join us as we delve into 82 of the most poignant and uplifting quotes, each serving as a reminder of the depth and beauty life has to offer.

1. “Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.” - John Boyle O'Reilly

2. “Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.” - Aaron Burr

3. “It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn't be there at all.” - Dr. Seuss

4. “The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.” - Mahatma Gandhi

5. “A true man loves his enemies as much he loves his friends.” - Santosh Kalwar

6. “How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?” - Mary Wollstonecraft

7. “I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.” - Charles Manson

8. “Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.” - Robert Bloch

9. “Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it, the old reality is no longer real to us and loses its hold on us. The truth sets us free.” - C. Terry Warner

10. “J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence.” - Anatole France

11. “Nicole can do anything that involves a ball and whistle.” - Laurie Halse Anderson

12. “No, she learned that true love was epic stuff, as told by Mary.” - Harriet Evans

13. “الحيرة قدرنا لأن البني ادم هو الكائن الوحيد على الارض اللي بيحتار, لانه الكائن الوحيد اللي بيختار و عشان كده هو الكائن الوحيد اللي حيتحاسب.” - أحمد العسيلي

14. “What on earth would I do if four bears came into my camp? Why, I would die of course. Literally shit myself lifeless.” - Bill Bryson

15. “Nothing is so hard that it can't be found by searching. ” - Kim Harrison

16. “Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.” - Robert Herrick

17. “When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.” - Sarah Dessen

18. “ ‘Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are’ is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread.” - Francois Mauriac

19. “Menulis kembali kenangan masa lalu butuh sebuah keberanian.” - Iwan Setyawan

20. “The truth is in the heart;out there is true darkness.” - Toba Beta

21. “I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the great outcomes were but randomly connected to our endeavors, that life was beyond mending, that love was loss, that nothing worth saying was sayable, that dullness was general, that disintegration was irresistible.” - Joseph O'Neill

22. “People always think something's all true.” - J.D. Salinger

23. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” - Mark Twain

24. “[Talking about Monte Rissell] ...and like Ed Kemper he was able to convince the psychiatrist he was making excellent progress while he was actually killing human beings. This is kind of a sick version of the old joke about how many psychiatrists it takes to change a light bulb. The answer being, just one, but only if the light bulb wants to change.” - John E. Douglas

25. “The first law of nature is self-preservation. Cut off that which may harm you. But if it is worth preserving, and is meaningful, nourish it and have no regrets. Ultimately, this is true living and love of self...from within.” - T.F. Hodge

26. “All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great responsibility that it's best not to tell a story at all unless you know you can do it right. You must be very careful, or without knowing it you can change the world.” - Vera Nazarian

27. “You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.” - Mitch Albom

28. “You really romanticize the white-trash period of your life,' Rain once said to me, which I thought was a little hurtful but perhaps true.” - Dan Chaon

29. “You must be careful when you ask people whether they’re happy; it’s a question that can upset them a great deal.” - Francois Lelord

30. “Just when it seems like life is getting good, something always has to come along and ruin it.” - Susane Colasanti

31. “Only those who row the boat make waves” - Christina Dodd

32. “Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.” - Jimmy Dean

33. “The mind is a powerful thing. It can take you through walls.” - Denis Avey

34. “the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.” - Julia Quinn

35. “Beauty’s not only skin deep. Just because a person is beautifuldoesn’t mean there’s no soul beneath. Doesn’t meanthat person hasn’t suffered like everyone else, doesn’t meanthey don’t hope to still be a good human being in an awfulworld. (Gabriel)” - Rachel Cohn

36. “She got icing all over her face. I think that's why I like her. For the good stuff, she's willing to get icing all over her face. Who wouldn't want a girl like that?” - Laura Ruby

37. “Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says "Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed"--because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk” - E. Lockhart

38. “But perhaps that's why we take snaps...to provide false evidence to underpin the false claim that we were happy. Because the thought that we weren't happy at least for some time during our lives is unbearable. Adults order children to smile in the photos, involve them in the lie, so we smile, we feign happiness.” - Jo Nesbø

39. “Are you dying?"Cato lit his cigarette. "It's not acute, perhaps, but we're all dying, Harry.” - Jo Nesbø

40. “The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.” - Erin Hunter

41. “I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place :)” - Taylor Swift

42. “Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange.” - Robert Kegan

43. “Um aspecto muito visível do desaparecimento das velhas garantias é a nova fragilidade dos laços humanos. A fragilidade e transitoriedade dos laços pode ser um preço inevitável do direito de os indivíduos perseguirem seus objetivos individuais, mas não pode deixar de ser, simultaneamente, um obstáculo dos mais formidáveis para perseguir eficazmente esses objetivos -- e para a coragem necessária para persegui-los.” - Zygmunt Bauman

44. “Why do I find it hard to write the next line?” - Gary Kemp

45. “You're gon' have to say to your self, am I gon' believe what them fools say about me today?” - Kathryn Stockett

46. “Of course you're sorry. The first words out of the mouths of men who are caught doing something they're only too happy to continue until they're caught.” - Julie Anne Long

47. “What we do,our choices, that's what defines us.” - Carrie Jones

48. “I always wanted to know what it is right. Maybe we know each other from time immemorial, if you know that in you is the eternal energy of goodness, which is most important for you.” - Gregor Golob

49. “The most beautiful is to see the joy in your eyes.” - Gregor Golob

50. “Not all. Some of them he probably lectured to death.” - Maggie Stiefvater

51. “It's just so sad what we're willing to do for the Joey Spinellis of the world, you know?The mutilating, the tweezing, the enhancing, the plumping, the pinching, the waxing, the starving, the sweating, the bleaching. And for what? So you can wake up next to THAT in thirty years? What are we thinking??” - Yvonne Prinz

52. “In the end we're all miserable. It's a human condition.” - Yvonne Prinz

53. “هكــذا دائمــاً هى الحيــاة .. بطيئــة فى تحقيق أحلامِنــا .. و هكـذ دائمــاً هو الموت .. سريع فى خطفِهــا منـــا ..” - هبة غاندى

54. “If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.” - Criss Jami

55. “America is still AmeriKKKa. rather we like it or not” - Fee Scott

56. “To tell you the truth. I am a wild and passionate novelist. I am therefore easily given over to telling wild and passionate lies.” - Val Edward Simone

57. “We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our delicately contrived lies.” - Val Edward Simone

58. “When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.” - Margery Williams Bianco

59. “Hearts know nothing of time-not age or length of acquaintance. They know only what they need.” - Jayne Rylon

60. “It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigarette. "You can't fight it.” - Haruki Murakami

61. “I wake in the night. Or sometimes I don't wake in the night. It hardly seems to make a difference.” - Nicci French

62. “Every villain is a hero in his own mind.” - Tom Hiddleston

63. “The reason is obvious. You're my grandfather, okay. Like it or not, you're who you are and i'm who i am. And i'm here right now, so what are we going to do about it? -Adam Cayhall-” - John Grisham

64. “The healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.” - Phoebe Stone

65. “I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.” - John Green

66. “Of course I wasn't abused. If I were; things would be so simple. I'd have a reason to for being in a shrinks office. I'd have a justification and something to work on. The world wasn't going to give me something that tidy.” - Ned Vizzini

67. “He has reverted, in other words, back into a pure balls-to-the-wall nerdism rivaled only by his early game-coding days back in Seattle. The sheer depth and involution of the current nerdism binge would be hard to convey to anyone. Intellectually, he is juggling half a dozen lit torches, Ming vases, live puppies, and running chainsaws. In this frame of mind he cannot bring himself to give a shit about the fact that this incredibly powerful billionaire has gone to a lot of trouble to come and F2F with him.” - Neal Stephenson

68. “And now you'll be telling storiesof my coming backand they won't be false, and they won't be truebut they'll be real” - Mary Oliver

69. “Good enough never is” - Debbi Fields

70. “...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.” - Paul Hoffman

71. “Tizenöt évi tudományos munka után nyugodtan mondhatom, hogy amit kiderítettem, azt a kutyások javarészt már régen tudták.” - Csányi Vilmos

72. “...You know something, don't you?""I know lots of things--your inquiry needs to be more specific.""Just answer the question.""True/false or multiple choice?” - Neal Shusterman

73. “Words to intrigue, inspire, examine, question, praise; Words to help us appreciate our world, our selves, our games; Words to dance our true soul fires gracefully free.” - jay woodman

74. “Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.” - Stephen Fry

75. “The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful life.” - Dalai Lama

76. “—¿Y qué ocurre cuando uno muere?—Tampoco yo lo sé.—Entonces, ¿por qué tener miedo? —dice Oswald—. Yo creo que no ocurre nada. Y si ocurre algo que es mejor que nada, pues mejor que mejor.—¿Y si lo que ocurre es peor que nada? —le digo.—No existe nada peor que nada. Pero si no es nada, no podré saberlo porque yo no seré nada.Oyéndolo hablar así, siento que Oswald es un genio.—Pero, y si no existes, ¿qué? —le pregunto—. El mundo entero seguirá viviendo sin ti. Como si nunca hubieras pasado por aquí. Y el día en que todas las personas que has conocido también hayan muerto, será como si nunca, nunca hubieras existido. ¿No te parece una pena que pase eso?—Si salvo a Max, no. Si lo salvo, existiré para siempre.” - Matthew Dicks

77. “Sometimes it's the smallest secrets that hold the most hope, the most fun, the most danger.” - Suzanne Palmieri

78. “Booty Butt, Booty Butt, Booty Butt Cheeks” - Descartes

79. “YOU DEMAND SALVATION EVEN AS YOU STEAL FROM THE COLLECTION PLATE.YOU SEND FOOD TO THE REFUGEES, AND THEN YOU DON'T ALLOW THE DELIVERY TRUCKS THROUGH THE WARZONES. THE FOOD WILL SPOIL , THE SUPPLIES WILL BE SOLD BY THE VICTORS . THE CIVILIANS WILL STARVE AND SICKEN AND EVENTUALLY DIE. IT IS THE WAY OF THINGS. THEY WILL ALL DIE, WHETHER FROM THE BRUTAL SAVAGERY THAT IS UNIQUE TO MAN OR FROM THE ABUNDANCE OF DISEASE OR FROM THE SCARCITY OF SUSTENANCE.” - Jackie Morse Kessler

80. “She shook her head and whispered, "No. No! That can't be true. Impossible!""You think things have to be possible? Things have to be true!” - Philip Pullman

81. “All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives, we got lost.” - james frey

82. “Love is a clash of lightnings” - Pablo Neruda