Daily Inspiration | Motivational Articles | Being Strong Quotes | Positive Quotes | Links-2 | About
Bernard Meltzer Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by Bernard Meltzer
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Related topics: Friendship Relationship Cute Whimsey Funny Live-By
True Quotes and Sayings
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Please sign-up for my Free Inspirational Daily Email on the form below.
Each email contains an unsubscribe link. We will NEVER sell, rent, loan, or abuse your email address in ANY way.
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Honor True Self
Forgive with Compassion
Receive ALL of life with Thanksgiving
CHOOSE with Thoughtful Consideration
Dream with Powerful Vision
Act with Bold Courage
Dance with a Light Heart
Relax in the Arms of Spirit
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The secret of making dreams come true
can be summarized in four C's.
They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy;
and the greatest of these is Confidence.
- Walt Disney
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin -
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
True wisdom cannot be learned in a lifetime,
but can be revealed in a moment,
for it has always lived within each and every one of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
True happiness... is not attained
through self-gratification,
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Know that you do not need anyone's permission
to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
We censor our actions, but
our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true
were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
- Orville Wright
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu
The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only good comes from being honest and true.
Only harm and suffering cone from falsehood.
It doesn't always feel as if good comes from truth and honesty,
but, in the long run, it does.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced,
and today we think this more than ever, and are just as wrong
as all previous ages that thought so.
How often have we not seen the truth condemned!
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life.
If it be true that optimism compels the world forward,
and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to
propagate a pessimistic philosophy.
- Helen Keller
