Browsing Topic Best Lying Quotes

I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.

When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.

Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.

If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.

When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Please don’t lie to me, unless, you’re sure I’ll never find out the truth.

We cannot give what we do not have: We cannot bring peace to the world if we ourselves are not peaceful. We cannot bring love to the world if we ourselves are not loving. Our true gift to ourselves and others lies not in what we have but in who we are.

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.

I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.

Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite deafness and ignorance, the time that was continues to tick inside the time that is.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is in need, lend them a helping hand. Do not wait for a thank you. True kindness lies within the act of giving without the expectation of something in return.

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

The value of achievement lies in the achieving.

Do not be held a cheat, even though it is impossible to live today without being one. Let your greatest cunning lie in covering up what looks like cunning.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can’t get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.

Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.