Top 100 Be True Quotes
#1. Be true to who you are -- no matter who are you.
Ellen Hopkins
#2. If it's on the Internet, then it's gotta be true.
Ken Jennings
#3. In the psychic process we are trying to eliminate everyone else from our minds, their effects, their energies, their influences: "To thine own self be true and it must follow as the night the day, thou cans't be false to any man."
Frederick Lenz
#4. A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some things may be true, and some things may not.
Nate Ruess
#6. People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.
Terry Goodkind
#7. The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
Swami Vivekananda
#9. The Bible's picture of a godly leader also describes the godly home: "A shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in the desert and the shadow of a great rock" (Isaiah 32:2). May that be true of your home.
Billy Graham
#11. This must be the way most of us maneuver through the world, half knowing, half not, visited by memories that can't possibly be true.
Elizabeth Strout
#12. I think people love to attach themselves to the idea of an overnight success. That may be true about me.
Darren Criss
#13. It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.
John Bright
#14. A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty. We won't take an interest in it.
John Loengard
#15. For the first time in a long time, our leaders in Washington understand what Americans of all religious backgrounds have long held to be true: through faith, all things are possible.
John Ashcroft
#18. Very little could get Ty hotter faster than a hard cock between his lips, but it had taken Zane a few years to accept that the same might be true of him. This was one of Ty's favorite things to do.
Abigail Roux
#19. There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble." And it may be true.
Hunter S. Thompson
#20. 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
#21. [D]on't cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go ... Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist on the suffering of others as well. (90)
Stephen Levine
#22. A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
Demosthenes
#23. Beauty misleads without lying, like an ambiguous prophecy in a Greek play. We read into it our hopes, to which it is indifferent. We ask it to be true and good, but it has its own way of measuring worth, its own standard and authority.
Phillip Margulies
#24. If it be true that God and man are in one image or likeness (and the affirmation that they are so is not unplausible) then it is the duty of man to bring out into its full splendor that Divine Image which is latent, on one side, in the complexity of his own nature.
William Batchelder Greene
#25. With automobile accidents, mechanical failure is seldom the cause; and most often, operator error. I find the same to be true with corporate failings ... . the people are rarely the issue ... the shortcoming is most often found in the leadership.
Steve Maraboli
#26. But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.
William Robertson Smith
#27. Mothers, look after your daughters, keep them near you, keep their confidence - that they may be true and faithful.
Elmina Shepard Taylor
#28. I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.
Rush Limbaugh
#29. As much as I don't want it to be true, the reasons I don't do something define me as a person even more so, perhaps, than the reasons I do something.
Dan Pearce
#30. It's likely that only vibrations of love and gratitude appear in nature, and observations of nature shows this to be true.
Masaru Emoto
#31. You should never listen to experts, because in a few years everything they know to be 'true' will be disproven. It's how it's always been, and how it will always be. That's the power of discovery and curiosity.
Elizabeth Naramore
#32. What is true for the emotions may also be true for the intellect. Some of our perplexities may come from a mismatch between the purposes for which our cognitive faculties evolved and the purposes to which we put them today.
Steven Pinker
#33. I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.
Brian Andreas
#34. The Bible says a great deal about entire families coming to Christ. Rahab the harlot ... the Philippian jailer ... and Cornelius, the Roman centurion. That could be true in your family too. You may be the one who could lead your family to Christ.
Billy Graham
#35. You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.
John Oliver
#37. Rely on yourself,
and be true to who you are.
What's unique about you
is what will take you far.
Don't look to others to say you're okay.
You know it
so believe it!
show your own self the way.
Wayne Dyer
#38. And I always have this feeling,
which may not be true at all,
that I am being used as a messenger.
I think I'm receiving,
and so,
I think I'm retransmitting!
Jose N. Harris
#39. Be silent and safe - silence never betrays you;
Be true to your word and your work and your friend;
Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,
Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.
James Jeffery Roche
James McAllister
#41. It may be true that the government that governs best governs least Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst.
Jane Bowles
#42. Everything is in its
right place, and my heart wants to believe this can always be true. My heart wants to
make it true, even as something darker tugs it away.
David Levithan
#43. Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.
Eve Ensler
#44. I was never interested in the two-party system per se. I was interested in how authority was abused by government, and how lies were told, and rewritten, to seem to be true. I came up out of a tradition of radical journalism.
Jules Feiffer
#45. It was so important for me to lose everything, because I found out what the most important thing is, which is to be true to yourself.
Ellen DeGeneres
#46. To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#47. Why?" Owen whispered. "Because it might be true? I'm tired of pretending like my heart isn't bleeding inside my chest because I want to be with you so badly. I don't want to fight it anymore. I want to be happy.
Megan Duke
#49. I have found the old adages to be true. One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back. I am fortunate. I have been pulled back. I walk once more in trueness to myself."
p. 177: Kettricken to Fitz:
Robin Hobb
#50. No matter what, I need to maintain my sense of self and always be true to who I am.
Lily Collins
#51. Readers are also not impressed by characters who have so many talents, skills, charm and good looks that they sound annoyingly too good to be true.
Charles Christian
#52. A comprehensive utopia may be out of reach, but the effort to realise it shapes the world for the better all the same. The belief may not be true, but it is useful. Belief makes the world.
Rebecca Solnit
#53. In the end, how much distance lies between the truth and what we believe to be true? Between the things we feel at one time and the things we end up doing?
Vu Tran
#54. Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.
John Steinbeck
#55. If I know something to be true, am I prepared to follow it even though it is contrary to what I want[?]
Eric Metaxas
#56. To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.
Brad Paisley
#57. The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.
John Lancaster Spalding
#58. Whether it is because the faith which creates has ceased to exist in me, or because reality takes shape in the memory alone, the flowers that people show me nowadays for the first time never seem to me to be true flowers.
Marcel Proust
#59. But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies.
Orson Scott Card
#60. Nevertheless, that our freewill may not be altogether extinguished, I think it may be true that fortune is the ruler of half our actions, but that she allows the other half or a little less to be governed by us.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#61. Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.
Holly Black
#62. I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.
Bono
#63. Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like.
John Polkinghorne
#64. As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#65. It is superstition," she admitted. "But it might be true.
Jeff VanderMeer
#66. People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.
Tammy Faye Bakker
#67. It may be true that you can't judge a book by its cover," Daisy G. had told Blister just last summer. "But the cover tells you something about the book and don't ever pretend it doesn't.
Susan Richards Shreve
#68. One way to avoid what has already been done is to be true to yourself.
Ramsey Campbell
#69. Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
John Wooden
#70. Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.
Michael Jordan
#71. It's often said you don't choose who you fall in love with, which I believe to be true. I also believe you don't choose what you fall in love with.
Daniel Bryan
#72. That's for calling your father a fool. It may be true, but it's disrespectful. Brian Fraser to teenage Jamie
Diana Gabaldon
#73. An aphorism needn't be true, but it should sound true.
Marty Rubin
#74. The market is fast-moving, fast-growing. Things that are true today may not be true tomorrow.
Robin Li
#75. Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.
Richard P. Feynman
#76. Emulation and imitation can legitimately influence one's development, but ultimately the artist must find his own path - and be true to himself.
Ken Danby
#77. Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
Julius Caesar
#78. Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#79. Learn to be true to yourself, and everything good will follow.
Abhijit Naskar
#80. People have an annoying tendency to compare shoe prices with the cost of other things. They might say, 'Wow - those shoes cost as much as a sofa!' Well, this may be true, but the comparison is so silly. After all, you can't wear a sofa.
Mimi Pond
#81. Be true to yourself, be kind to yourself, read and learn about everything that interests you, and keep away from people who bring you down.
Steve Maraboli
#82. Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time.
Georges Courteline
#83. every employee and manager must understand who you are as a company, and what you stand for. They must be true to your brand values and be able to passionately explain them to your prospects and customers.
Richard Parkes Cordock
#84. Of the things I know to be true in life, right at the top of the list of irrefutable truths is, "No one ever listens to anyone." It might even be No. 1.
Merrill Markoe
#85. Every mind should be true to itself - should think, investigate and conclude for itself, wrote Ingersoll.
David McCullough
#86. I lost my life over that curtain as I might have done when storming a fort. Is that possible? How terrible and how stupid. It can't be true! It can't, but it is.
Leo Tolstoy
#87. A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!.
Ayn Rand
#88. It's not that we don't want to be all over the radio. I'd love to have a hit single. However, I also want to be in the business a long time and longevity is something that we all wanted. In order to have that, you have to be true to what you do and to each other.
Margo Timmins
#89. proper task of philosophy is to remind ourselves of what we already know to be true:
Bertrand Russell
#90. Legends are legends. Never take them seriously, even if they might be true.
L. E. Henderson
#91. She can look at you and make you feel like you're the only one in the world. Even if it's not true, she can make you feel that way. And with her child, it would be true. She would look at her child for as long as her child needed.
Adam Berlin
#92. The incessant struggle of the mind to be true to itself, to absorb new truths, to grow, to overcome pressures
these are the painful portion of the independent thinker. Almost his sole reward is the satisfaction of integrity.
Howard Mumford Jones
#93. Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.
Jean Little
#94. The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy death.
Herbert Gold
#95. The ordinary American is the opposite of a cynic. He is on the average more of a believer and a defender of the faith in humanity than the rest of the Occidentals. It is a relatively important matter to him to be true to his own ideals and to carry them out in actual life.
Gunnar Myrdal
#96. There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.
A.J. Ayer
#97. I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
Edward Abbey
#98. A couple can be quite intimate without sharing bodies - though you will likely not believe that, my Cam. But it can be true. What I feel for you is highly intense, whether you are standing next to me or living a hundred miles away. I do not have to be touching you at all to experience what I feel.
Jennifer Ashley
#99. By the time I was writing the second book, my life had changed rather dramatically, thanks to the intervention of television, and I needed to find a way to discuss that. Otherwise the big, fake book would not be true on some level.
John Hodgman
#100. When you cross that chasm so that what you believe to be true merges into what is actually true, you have earned the right to inner peace.
Hyrum W. Smith
