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This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Omar N. Bradley

Life, Live, Mind

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
James M. Barrie

Life, Dreams, Hard

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Person, Fact, Knew

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
Marcus Aurelius

Understand, Minds, Quality

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
W. Clement Stone

Power, Yourself, May

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
Alexander Hamilton

God, Judge, Said

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
Richard Bach

Work, Power, May

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
Isaac Newton

May, Understand, Imagine

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Dreams, Live, Last

I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.
John Wooden

Common, Beliefs

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
Bill Gates

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.
Caleb Carr

Job, Human, Friend

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Friendship, May

People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic.
Ron White

Work, Saying, Drink

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Chuck Palahniuk

Happiness, Find, Risk

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Bertrand Russell

Life, Great, Happy

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
Salvador Dali

Real, Same, Between

High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.
Robert H. Schuller

Dreams, Rich, Big

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus

Yourself, Evil, Lie

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
Mignon McLaughlin

Age, Woman, Her

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
Henry Ward Beecher

Power, State, Himself

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
Lord Byron

Woman, Seen, Unless

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Aldous Huxley

Freedom, Liberty, Rather

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Love, Care, Children

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Hannah Arendt

Evil, Hypocrite, Crime

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
H. L. Mencken

Mankind, Chief, Occupation

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
H. L. Mencken

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
H. L. Mencken

Everyone, Idea, Admitted

A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.
Suze Orman

Life, Happiness, Courage

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.
Torquato Tasso

Love, Cannot, Found

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