Top 100 Be Truthful Quotes
#1. What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.
Jane Wiedlin
#2. We can choose to be truthful even when the choice means personal loss. We can choose to undertake a great action - unselfish, courageous, daringly creative - that looks unreasonable and irrational to the eye of the Ego.
Ilchi Lee
#3. Be truthful, say what you mean and mean what you say, don't ignore the given circumstances.
Lauren Graham
#4. Remember my words: Be truthful, be kind to one another, and you will attain peace. We will meet again in another life.
Jeanne M. Lee
#5. Everything is out of your control, and you can only be truthful about how you feel.
Shailene Woodley
#6. Every mistake you make allows you to be honest because what's in the dark will come to light, so it's better to be truthful about it.
Nayvadius Cash
#7. Even if people are all from the same place, there can be very, very different approaches. It's one of the things I'm fascinated by. It's why I like directing. I like to see how different people approach trying to be truthful, on camera or in the theater, and whether you can make them match up.
Kenneth Branagh
#8. I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you've got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.
Howard Schultz
#9. Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.
Steve Coogan
#10. I'm very strict in my belief that non-fiction should be truthful, and fiction is for invented narratives.
Darin Strauss
#11. I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.
Elie Wiesel
#12. Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.
Mahatma Gandhi
#13. I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.
James L. Brooks
#15. Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
Willa Cather
#16. You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.
Renny Harlin
#17. Emotions are what make us human. Make us real. The word 'emotion' stands for energy in motion. Be truthful about your emotions, and use your mind and emotions in your favor, not against yourself.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#18. Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.
Adolf Loos
#20. You can't be different for different's sake, and this doesn't always work, but you have to separate yourself from the normal read. Of course, it has to be truthful. If it's not truthful, don't waste your time.
Brad Pitt
#21. I had to learn to forgive myself, not to judge, but to learn from the past. They showed me how vital it is to accept, be truthful, and love myself. So I could do the same with others.
Marlo Morgan
#22. One of the blessings of maturity is that it sometimes brings one greater courage to be truthful, regardless of what those who do not understand may think or say
Napoleon Hill
#23. When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
Roald Dahl
#24. To be persuasive, We must be believable,
To be believable, We must be credible,
To be credible, We must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
#25. If I can mean to people - if I can symbolize the ability to pursue gender equality, racial equality, and to be truthful about our experiences, then, absolutely, that's what I want to be.
Anita Hill
#26. I believe politicians should aim to be accurate and truthful in what they say at all times. You can be truthful and inaccurate but what you shouldn't be doing at any time is saying things that are untrue or making commitments that you have no intention of honouring.
Malcolm Turnbull
#27. Be truthful, one would say, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
Virginia Woolf
#28. If to be truthful is to be cruel, then lying must surely be an act of kindness. And so, kindness is a lie.
Wataru Watari
#29. A lot of the kind of comedy that I do comes out of real human moments. For them to work, they have to be truthful kinds of things that people in the audience can go, "Yes, I've experienced that myself!"
Brian Regan
#30. You want me to be truthful.. for your convenience.. but in turn.. you consider to be mendacious for your own convenience.. !! Gr8..!!
Abhijeet Sawant
#31. I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
Rick Springfield
#34. I'm just trying to be truthful and collaborate with people who have interesting things to say.
Judd Apatow
#35. In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth.
Michael Leunig
#36. Truthful vs. Honest
To salvage our relationships we cannot always be truthful,
but we shouldn't be anything less than honest.
Beryl Dov
#37. The umbrella that I live under is that you must be truthful with everyone except when to do so would injure them or others.
Rob Lowe
#38. A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#39. Revel in your freedom. Live wholeheartedly, laugh loud, love much, spread joy, be truthful, and give yourself to everything. You, who are already whole, can lose nothing. Your ego may fall from time to time, but you will not. Live big!
Robert Holden
#40. All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#43. A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.
Bruce Davison
#44. All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful.
Wilfred Owen
#45. It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.
Henry David Thoreau
#46. Say little. But when you speak, utter gentle words that touch the heart. Be truthful. Express kindness. Abstain from vanity. This is the way.
Dana Perino
#47. I mean, sometimes ... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.
Eddie Izzard
#48. I look forward to the end of all this money-making part of the career, to be truthful.
Paul Guilfoyle
#49. Music should be truthful and real, but it should also be healing and uplifting.
Steve Forbert
#50. I don't believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it's really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.
Olivia Thirlby
#51. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals!
Lydia M. Child
#52. There's lots of bad guys out there. I can't catch them all. To be truthful, she couldn't catch any of them unless they hurled themselves off a building and into the front seat of her car.
Jeff Lindsay
#53. Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to yourself.
Joe Tye
#54. All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.
Wilfred Owen
#55. I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience, unless you know your truth and you're not living a lie. So I'm learning through it, and it's making me a better person, and it's making me a better artist, I think.
Diane Guerrero
#56. If science wants to be truthful,
What science is more truthful than the science of things without science?
I close my eyes and the hard earth where I'm lying
Has a reality so real even my back feels it.
I don't need reason - I have shoulderblades.
Alberto Caeiro
#57. To be truthful, I think golfers are overpaid. It's unreal, and I have trouble dealing with the guilt sometimes.
Colin Montgomerie
#58. God wants you to be truthful and humble to yourself and others. He made you good and industrious, but you can't benefit from it if you always stumble on pride.
Stevan V. Nikolic
#59. What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.
Corin Nemec
#60. I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
Bela Lugosi
#61. I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.
Spike Lee
#62. American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.
Edward R. Murrow
#63. I want to play roles that I'm proud of, that I feel a certain integrity about, and I want to continue to be truthful in the work that I do.
Laz Alonso
#64. Be truthful ... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards.
Mary McCarthy
#65. I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes.
Nikki Giovanni
#67. I have never joined the Facebook world because, to be truthful, social media scares me to death. It is kind of crazy how huge that world is, so I have never joined Facebook, but I do have Instagram and Twitter.
Bindi Irwin
#68. See it all. See it fairly. Be truthful, be sensible and be careful with language. When nothing depends on man, everything depends on him.
Henry Grunwald
#69. First and foremost, you want to be truthful as a storyteller.
Terence Winter
#70. I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.
Benjamin Bratt
#71. The Buddha taught complete honesty, with the extra instruction that everything a person says should be truthful and helpful.
Sylvia Boorstein
#72. At the very moment when we refuse to follow our conscience and refuse to be truthful, we become all the more aware of the presence of conscience and the absolute truthfulness inside.
Ilchi Lee
#73. People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling.
Morgan Freeman
#74. Truth is relative, then. It is about timing. It is about what is safe. Truth is the luxury of the privileged, of people who have plenty of food and are not forced to hide because they are Jews. Truth can destroy, and therefore it is not always wise or even healthy to be truthful.
Patricia Cornwell
#75. One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others
Bruce Lee
#76. If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was often done by men. It was more often done by men than by women, if we're going to be truthful.
A.S. Byatt
#77. Tagore once said, art has to be beautiful. But before that, it has to be truthful.
Ritwik Ghatak
#78. A lot of people would say, to be truthful is to tell all, every dalliance, every crisis. They might be right on paper, but in practice, it's not a great way to go.
Adam Carolla
#79. To be a people's pleaser is a dangerous game and to be truthful makes you unpopular, which one are you gonna choose?
Euginia Herlihy
#80. One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.
Emile Chartier
#81. In order to discover truth, we must be truthful ourselves, and must welcome those who point out our errors as heartily as those who approve and confirm our discoveries.
Max Muller
#82. Even if you know that what you'll say will hurt a woman's feelings, I've learned that it's better to be truthful with her than it is to cover up. Ultimate honesty is what a relationship is really about.
Stephen Moyer
#83. We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.
E.W. Howe
#84. There's no point in getting frustrated at yourself. Just be truthful.
Frederick Lenz
#85. The bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of drama is to be truthful. You can be truthful and funny, but if you're not truthful in a drama than the audience leaves you.
Eddie Izzard
#87. To be truthful i am not entirely sure what people mean when they talk of happiness. There are moments of joy and laughter, the comfort of friendship, but enduring happiness? If it exists i have not found it
David Gemmell
#88. I think it's unnecessary to be mean for the sake of being mean, but I do believe you have to be truthful, but with love.
Geri Halliwell
#89. We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.
Henry Cisneros
#91. To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
Vanilla Ice
#92. My best advice is just to show up and be truthful. Be the kind of friend you are hoping for.
Jen Hatmaker
#93. Be honest. Be truthful. If you tell lies, you lose your credibility.
Timi Nadela
#94. You want to believe in leaders, really believe in leaders. You want what they are saying to be truthful, and you want to trust them.
Pierce Brosnan
#95. Legal investigation. As Clinton noted, My goal in this deposition was to be truthful, but not particularly helpful.
Steven Pinker
#96. Where there is anger, apply loving kindness. Where there is evil, offer good. Where there is stinginess, be generous. Where there are lies, be truthful.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#97. It's hard t want to fit in and not be able to," his voice came barely above a whisper. "They make us feel like it's easier to lie than be truthful. Easier to hide than be seen. Make us feel like we did something wrong to not be like them. Like we made a conscious choice".
Dan Skinner
#98. Always be truthful and you will have fewer visits from regret, guilt or fear.
Suzy Kassem
#99. The Buddha's criteria for Wise Speech include - in addition to the obvious expectation that speech be truthful - that it be timely, gentle, motivated by kindness, and helpful.
Sylvia Boorstein
#100. You just make yourself available to be full of love. And to be truthful and honest, 100 percent.
Diogo Morgado
