
Top 100 Be Honest To Yourself Quotes
#1. When you have seen the things I have seen and traveled all over the world, you would not be honest to yourself and the world to [look away].
Michael Jackson
#2. Three things will make you happy: always have happy thoughts, be honest to yourself, and express unconditional love for everything.
Debasish Mridha
#3. The spirit of what we do is that you do what you feel and when you feel it and not feel you have to be something you're not: you have to be honest to yourself.
Brian Viglione
#4. Do not believe that you will get punished for the things you do. Just be honest to yourself and the people you love.
Poonam Dhandhania
#5. Be true. Be as true and honest with yourself as you can and then you've just got to let it go from there out into the universe. Whatever happens after that, I have no control of, but I do have control of what I'm willing to put out there.
Pegi Young
#6. The key to happiness is loving yourself. For years I have struggled to reach this point and even now at the age of 20 I will be honest in saying I am not 100% there yet. However, I will say I am much closer to that 100 than I was 5 years ago.
Gabriela M. Sanchez
#7. Be honest with yourself, face your feelings and what they really mean, then you will be able to deal with them and move on.
Jay Woodman
#8. But isn't it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn't it better to break it yourself? I thought honesty made people strong.
Stephanie Perkins
#9. I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.
Andrew Mason
#10. If you have the courage to be honest with everyone, including yourself, you may hurt a few people's feelings, but they will forever value your opinion more than your half truths.
Steven Aitchison
#11. Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.
Rachel Roy
#12. The problem is, your ego sometimes tells you that you can do many things. But sometimes it's best to stay focused and be honest with yourself.
Sylvester Stallone
#14. She had been trying to be honest with him, thinking her honesty would be winsome and that he would come to rescue her family, forgetting what she later learned as a writer: that to be honest is to open yourself up to people thinking you're crazy.
Susan Breen
#15. The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
Diogenes Of Sinope
#16. I would doubt that virtue, to her, means abstinence. It is far more likely to mean courage, compassion, and the integrity to be brutally honest, first with yourself and then with others, and never to run away just because you are exhausted or afraid.
Anne Perry
#17. What makes me happy about the show, and what I hope people take away from it is: "Just be yourself." I know that's supremely corny, but I really think that just being honest with yourself and being honest with everyone around you is the best way to live.
Sarah Steele
#18. You will never change, unless you are honest with yourself or you are forced to be authentic by someone that was honest with him or herself.
Shannon L. Alder
#19. It's easy to figure out whether you're getting stale. All you've got to do is look in the mirror and be honest with yourself.
Tony La Russa
#20. In a relationship that is successful, communication has to be totally open and honest, without judgement or anger. and before you end a relationship that is very important to you, you have to be able to say to yourself that you seeked every avenue to make it work.
Anonymous
#21. Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility?
Hillary Clinton
#22. You're always learning about yourself, if you're honest with yourself. It's very tough to be honest with yourself. We all are dishonest with ourselves, a lot of the time. We don't want to deal with something, so we compartmentalize it.
Geoff Johns
#23. Staying healthy is about really listening to your mind and body. They will both let you know when you're doing things the right way for you. And when you're not. You just need to be honest with yourself and listen to what they're saying.
Adam Rodriguez
#24. One must strive to be as honest as you are humanly capable with yourself and others. It is impossible to move forward otherwise.
Tohoru Masamune
#25. For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.
Mike Norton
#26. The successful man is himself. To be successful, you've got to be honest with yourself.
Vince Lombardi
#27. To be honest, when you're running a series and you have an open end, you don't want to limit yourself too much with the choices you've got for a particular character.
Julian Fellowes
#28. The main thing is to be honest with yourself, know and recognize your limits and attain maximum achievement within them. I would for example get more satisfaction from climbing Snowdon, which I know I could, than from attempting Everest, which I couldn't.
Stirling Moss
#29. Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.
Josh Hartnett
#30. I generally like to be up front and honest and open because that's how I've always been. I have nothing to hide, and I think people relate to you more when you're just yourself.
Ricki-Lee Coulter
#31. One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.
Bill Toomey
#32. You just make yourself available to be full of love. And to be truthful and honest, 100 percent.
Diogo Morgado
#33. As a runner, you have to face the truth about yourself on a regular basis, and it makes you more honest. You can't pretend to be faster than you are. You can't pretend that you are better prepared than you are. You cannot pretend to be a runner, you actually have to run.
John Bingham
#34. Music to me is about being honest, and it's what I've always pictured music as. I don't see the point of expressing yourself if you are going to be cryptic about it.
Chet Faker
#35. It's cool to be kind. It's cool to be weird. It's cool to be honest and to be secure with yourself.
Sophia Amoruso
#36. To be really honest, I think if anybody did derive comfort from the fact that 'there's always someone worse off than yourself,' they'd have to be a pretty sad and sick individual. If I've sprained my wrist, I'm not made happier by the thought that someone somewhere has broken their leg!
Stuart Hill
#37. As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself ... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.
Nelson Mandela
#38. How to live spiritually:
- Love and appreciate yourself
- Be honest with yourself
- Express yourself truthfully
- Know you are abundance
- Remember to use humor
- Don't forget to choose
Rene Gaudette
#39. You've got to be honest with yourself aesthetically about who could you play. You want to artistically be true to that character.
Columbus Short
#40. Be honest and work hard to get what you want. Don't take shortcuts; you only cheat yourself in the long run. Success is not measured by money or fame, but by how you feel about your own goals and accomplishments and the time and effort you put into them.
Willie Stargell
#41. As long as you're honest and authentic to yourself and your experience, your art can't be 'shit'.
Myself
#42. You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.
Ethan Canin
#43. It's very hard to be honest with yourself when something's just not working.
Shania Twain
#44. I am hard on myself. But isn't it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn't it better to break it yourself?
Stephanie Perkins
#45. If you're honest with yourself as a writer, trying to tell the best story you can, your story will be an honest one. And your values will come out, no matter how hard you try to disguise them.
Joe Clifford Faust
#46. In my opinion, trying to guess what readers want is the wrong approach. You have to tell your story as best you can and as true to yourself as possible. You have to be honest and fair and vulnerable and foolish and brave, and not care what anyone thinks of it.
Jeannette Walls
#47. Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do.
Vince Poscente
#48. The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on with your life. To be honest and true to yourself.
Roberto Benigni
#49. With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like to really embellish the human spirit. You have to write about something you have a feel for.
Sylvester Stallone
#50. I've been successful, but I haven't had any unwanted attention. To be honest, I've never invited or courted attention. I think if you act normal, then people will treat you normally. If you go around with a big entourage all the time, you're not staying true to yourself.
Bonnie Tyler
#51. But may the truth be told. May the true self may be found. May the truth rule the world more than ever. How easy life will be if everyone is just true to themselves, true to their words, true to their actions and true to life?
Diana Rose Morcilla
#52. To be honest, I can't imagine how anyone could say 'I'm weak' and then stay that way. If you know that about yourself, why not fight it, why not develop your character? Their answer has always been: 'Because it's much easier not to!
Anne Frank
#53. The best advice I can give to any young man or young woman upon graduation from school can be summed up in exactly eight words, and they are-be honest with yourself and tell the truth.
James Farley
#54. To get to know yourself better, examine what you really want from life and become true to yourself, Be clear and honest and work hard to make it.
Auliq Ice
#55. Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is most private and probably most interesting for that very reason.
Judith Krantz
#56. The whole key is to be honest with yourself, find the weak spots, work on it, get it done.
Wladimir Klitschko
#57. If you're going to be in the business of news and telling people the truth ... you've got to be honest. You've got to have the same rules for yourself as you do for everyone else.
Don Lemon
#58. In the end, Alter and Forgas concluded the happier you are, the more likely you will be to seek out ways to delude yourself into maintaining your rosy outlook on life and your own abilities. Sad people, it seems, are more honest with themselves.
David McRaney
#59. It isn't necessary to be perfect to be a channel for the universe. You just have to be real- be yourself. The more real, honest, and spontaneous you are, the more freely the creative force can flow through you.
Shakti Gawain
#60. Become simple and live simply, not only within yourself but also in your everyday dealings. Don't make ripples all around you, don't try to be interesting, keep your distance, be honest, fight the desire to be thought fascinating by the outside world.
Etty Hillesum
#61. You have to be funny about it and honest about it. You can't leave yourself out of that mix. You have to be honest enough to say, I'm that messed-up one in the family.
Louie Anderson
#62. You can tell other people all the alibis you want. I don't mind. But to yourself try to be honest.
Richard Hamming
#63. Now utter (this supplication, and then prepare yourself to migrate to Medina), "My Lord! Let my entrance be an honest entrance, let my exit be an honest exit, and bestow upon me power from You to help me." [80]
Anonymous
#64. I am very close to my family. I have learned a lot from my father. He used to tell me to be honest with yourself and not to argue with your seniors. You don't need to be involved in any quarrel, as sometimes you need to remain silent intelligently.
Suresh Raina
#65. Film is an incredible way to express yourself and your vision, as is fashion, but you have to make sure [to] be confident and honest and true to yourself and say something that means something, because that is really the point of any art.
Tom Ford
#66. The lesson is, because there will be many lemons in life, to learn to make the proverbial lemonade - and be open and honest. That's the best way of doing damage control and positioning yourself for success.
Vivek Wadhwa
#67. The key is to be honest. Be honest, but don't play yourself.
DJ Khaled
#68. My father said about money: 'You have to have some. But you don't have to have all of it. Just be honest with yourself.'
Joe Paterno
#69. I don't want to be just one thing. I want to be brave and selfless and intelligent and honest and kind.
Veronica Roth
#70. I don't necessarily think that the world should know everything, and even if you consider yourself to be extremely honest, that doesn't mean you have to blurt everything out all the time.
Morrissey
#71. I am just a simple guy and I like when people enjoy themselves. I always say: you can laugh, you can cry, you can express yourself but please don't hurt each other. I really don't know, to be honest with you. I'm very impressed with everything that has happened.
Tommy Wiseau
#72. When you're young artist, it's really important to like pay attention to what you're doing and be honest with yourself and in the creative proccess.
Chester Bennington
#73. I struggle to watch myself in any scene, to be honest. What's done is done. I wish I was able to watch myself, as it would really help me develop as an actor. But I'm not brave enough. It's a difficult thing to do - looking at yourself as this utterly different person on a screen.
Eva Green
#74. When you approach a problem, strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice, assemble and learn the facts of the situation, make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest, and then stick to it.
Chester Bowles
#75. I think it's important to be honest with yourself about what you want and it's important to be honest with your partner about what you need.
Alison Brie
#76. Whether you're a cameraman or a director, you should ask yourself every now and then, 'What am I trying to do?' Be honest and keep things very simple.
James Wong Howe
#77. If you're going to be honest with yourself, you have to admit that you go into show business wanting people to talk about you and wanting everyone to know who you are. But that also means there are going to be a whole bunch of people who don't like you. No matter who you are.
Ellen DeGeneres
#78. You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.
John Ruskin
#79. Definitely trust yourself. Work hard. Be honest with yourself. And life can be joyful. It is joyful. Just give it your all and it's all going to work out.
Katie Holmes
#80. You have to be ruthless with yourself, in terms of being honest about what is working and what is not.
Patton Oswalt
#81. Never over book yourself fearing to miss out on opportunities.Be honest with yourself and how you use your time.
Kishore Bansal
#82. You have to be intellectually honest with yourself and others. In my judgment, all great investors are seekers of truth.
Michael Steinhardt
#83. Just do this one thing: promise yourself you'll never deal underhanded to anybody. You'll be honest in all of your business dealings. That is hard. Conquer that one. Demand it of yourself. Demand a higher standard for yourself and your children and do it.
Glenn Beck
#84. When the times are good, stretch them. But when the times are bad, stick to the basics and be honest with yourself.
Anita Bhogle
#85. The most valuable insight on choosing whom to love is to be honest with yourself about the man standing before you.
Niecy Nash
#86. Doubt is your intellectual conscience pleading with you to be honest with yourself.
Peter Boghossian
#87. Take off all the masks, manners, fancy clothes, all the devices you use, and be the most honest person you can be with yourself. Then, whatever love you get then is real. All the false approaches, like trying to be a player, only bring false results.
Jacque Fresco
#88. I think that's the most important thing you can do to be a real person - is to be honest with yourself.
Mike Dirnt
#89. If you think of your bad behavior as a lifestyle choice, as in "being yourself" or "just being honest," you might be ignoring the cost to your personal energy.
Scott Adams
#90. Be true to yourself, be kind to others, be honest, don't say anything if you have nothing nice to say
Lois H. Gresh
#91. Be honest with yourself.
The world is not honest with you.
When you are honest with yourself
you find the road to inner peace
Paramahansa Yogananda
#92. I think you've got to be honest with yourself at what you're good at. That's the hardest thing to do.
Jerry Bruckheimer
#93. I find that the best way into things is to open my heart up to it and allow it to be as truthful and honest as I can be, and I can make it. It's hard to do that; it's hard to open yourself up to something.
Lee Pace
#94. To be perfectly honest, it scared me a little. You get so used to seeing the same thing in the mirror every day you stop thinking about what you look like.
Cat Clarke
#95. Just be honest and true to yourself. If your friends around you love you, they'll wish you the best and want only what's going to make you happy.
Meagan Good
#96. Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.
Tullian Tchividjian
#97. If you are honest with yourself and can look into a mirror and believe that you have given 100 percent, you should feel proud. If you cannot, then there is more work to be done.
John Havlicek
#98. They say that in Hollywood one can't be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.
Bette Davis
#99. I don't want to sound arrogant and say that I know everything about directing and I've got it cracked, but it was just all in all a joyous experience. To me, the key to directing, to be honest, is just surround yourself with brilliant people and let them do their thing
Dan Mazer
#100. It's important to recognize your own self-destructive behavior and be honest about it. You're only hurting yourself or losing out on your truth and happiness. I'm not afraid to face my own personal stuff. It's so important to dig it up and figure it out and move on.
Christina Aguilera
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