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My mom always told me that if you work hard, you can achieve anything. And it`s true. It`s one of the truest things ever.

- Jennifer Lopez

My problem is that I drive myself... I`m trying to become an artist, and to be true, and sometimes I feel I`m on the verge of craziness, I`m just trying to get the truest part of myself out, and it`s very hard. There are times when I think, `All I have to be is true`. But sometimes it doesn`t come out so easily. I always have this secret feeling that I`m really a fake or something, a phony.

- Marilyn Monroe

Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it`s right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.

- Oprah Winfrey

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

- Barbara Walters

No matter if we`re counting days, work-hours or barrels refined, our truest measure of safety is that everyone goes home safely at the end of the day. We are proud of our employees who are dedicated and vigilant when it comes to safety.

- Dave Allen

World government is not only possible, it is inevitable; and when it comes, it will appeal to patriotism in its truest, in its only sense, the patriotism of men who love their national heritages so deeply that they wish to preserve them in safety for the common good.

- Peter Ustinov

(On his dear friend Tony Randall): The best friend a man could ever have. I loved him dearly. He was a gentleman in the truest sense of the word. I will miss him for the rest of my days.

- Jack Klugman

Both philosophies came to a head, and clashed today. Better offense? Better defense? Can old players play? Everything. All those different things played out today. But the truest story that`s known to man today is that we`re truly No. 1.

- Simeon Rice

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

The rational individualist is not the enemy of benevolence or civility, but their truest exemplar.

- David Kelley

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

- Abdul Jalil

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure`s sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.

- Alison Levine

But I do believe that a woman`s truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote.

- Alton Swann

All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the truest poets must be truthful.

- Andrew Lo

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure`s sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.

- Annette Whittington

To live this life, my friends, you have to have a genuine passion. Nothing artificial. To live this life, to love this life, you have to have a genuine passion. People think Kabir was so wonderful because he was uneducated and yet he said all these wonderful things. Do you think it would have been different had Kabir gone to Yale and Oxford? If so, you missed the point. The point isn`t whether he was educated or not, because, in the truest sense, he was very educated. More educated than most people. The point is that passion. Maybe you won`t be able to write like Kabir, but you can feel the same passion. Passion is the point. That love is the point. That feeling is the point. That is achievable by everyone sitting in this hall, and in the city of London, and on this planet Earth. That passion. That love. That awakening. That joy.

- Avi Nachmany

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

- Washington Irving

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

- Henry David Thoreau

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

- Chinua Achebe

The simplest things are often the truest.

- Richard Bach

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.

- Samuel Butler