Nelson Henderson Sayings and Quotes
Sayings by Nelson Henderson
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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True Sayings
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare 
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
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I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
I Honor My True Self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Know that you do not need anyone's permission
to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
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
We censor our actions, but
our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Know that your true self,
a spiritual being,
is always perfect.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
True happiness... is not attained
through self-gratification,
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin -
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
The True Surprise is that
So Many of Us have Evolved So Rapidly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
I don't care what anybody says about me
as long as it isn't true.
- Truman Capote
Feigned courtesy is a mere shadow of true kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Every true love song, by its very nature, is a duet.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
The True Path is the path on which
there is no coming and no going.
- Traditional Zen Koan
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Follow your instincts.
That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Every loving thought is true.
Everything else is an appeal for healing and help,
regardless of the form it takes.
- A Course In Miracles
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
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