Top 100 Being True Quotes
#2. I paint with a language I can call my own ... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.
Scott Kahn
#3. I don't know how to choose my purpose - that sounds to big and... significant. But I know who I am, and I've chosen the things that are important to me. I think the best decisions I make about what to do in my life come when I'm being true to both of those things
April White
#4. truisms at least have the merit of being true, which distinguishes them from a good deal of political discourse. And
Noam Chomsky
#5. If you're conscientiously seeking approval, you're not being true to yourself.
Tomas Kalnoky
#6. In all matters of eternal truth, the soul is before the intellect; the things of God are spiritually discerned. You know truth by being true; you recognize God by being like Him.
Frederick William Robertson
#7. Being popular isn't everything; being true to yourself is!
Paul Butcher
#8. The reasoning isn't crazy. It's technically correct. If you're being true to the idea that government must not take positions on religious questions, then the Ninth Circuit opinion is quite persuasive.
Jack Balkin
#9. I do believe in God. But you won't find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What's the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I'd rather do something I like doing as long as I'm being true to myself.
Virat Kohli
#10. Year by year I learn more about myself, and I think that confidence and honesty and just really being true to yourself is probably the most beautiful thing that you can do for yourself and the people around you.
Dianna Agron
#11. He who believes God, recognizes Him as true and faithful, and himself as a liar; for he mistrusts his own thinking as false, and trusts the Word of God as being true, though it absolutely contradicts his own reasoning.
Martin Luther
#12. The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.
James Anthony Froude
#13. There's a lot of ways to be honest that don't necessarily involve absolute facts being true. I think that's something I absolutely try to do.
Craig Finn
#14. Being true to ourselves is about having courage to define our own version of what it is to live a successful life.
Henna Inam
#15. If they haven't compromised themselves already, in their hearts they want to, because being true to one's art, keeping the dream alive, is utterly exhausting.
Don Lee
#16. All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
Veronica Roth
#17. I have discovered happiness in being true to who I am. I hope you will give that idea some consideration.
Julianne Donaldson
#18. Knowing that the gospel is true is the essence of a testimony. Consistently being true to the gospel is the essence of conversion.
David A. Bednar
#19. I hate it when everyone is so noble and good in a story that you can't imagine it being true at all.
Patricia Finney
#20. It never hurts to be involved in any political or activist organization. I can never see how participation would be a bad thing. The key is being true to what you participate with and who.
John Cusack
#21. The agreement is so strong that even if we understand the concept of it not being true, we feel the blame, the guilt, and the shame that occur if we go against these rules.
Miguel Ruiz
#22. Authenticity is about being true to who you are, even when everyone around you wants you to be someone else
Michael Jordan
#23. This being true for the ordinary Universe, that all sense-impressions are
dependent on changes in the brain we must include illusions, which are after all
sense-impressions as much as "realities" are, in the class of "phenomena dependent
on brain-changes.
S.L. MacGregor Mathers
#24. A lot of people, black, white, mexican, young or old, fat or skinny have a problem being true to they self. They have a problem looking in the mirror and looking directly into their own souls. Only reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly into my face and find my soul
Tupac Shakur
#25. So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
Samuel Johnson
#26. I always say that everyone has to start by being true to themselves.
Lori Goldstein
#27. It's an ongoing process, in the script, on the set and in the editing room, to make sure you are being true to the emotion of the film without turning it into a melodrama, and making sure you're getting all the laughs you can without it turning into just some stupid comedy.
Jon Turteltaub
#28. There are 2 versions of Self Image. Inner and Outer.
Get in touch with the inner self image and dispose of any concept of the outer world. Feel the energy that comes from this image and start being true from source of this energy. The source of god.
Matthew Donnelly
#29. Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them.
Dan Wells
#30. The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.
C.S. Lewis
#31. In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor ... Being true is different than being honest.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#32. When you are being true to what you know in your heart, your whole heart becomes clean.
John De Ruiter
#33. I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure of truth.
Elia Suleiman
#34. I don't believe that you can talk about a photograph being true or false. I don't think such a claim has any meaning.
Errol Morris
#35. 'Truth Will Set U Free' is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination.
Corey Hart
#36. I think shows that are completely dramatic are a lie. People use humor to cope. That is how we deal with things. In the darkest situations, there's humor. And if you don't show that, you're not being true to real life.
Jenji Kohan
#37. Success lies in being true to yourself - and living life on your own terms.
Robin S. Sharma
#38. Your reality being true doesn't mean my reality isn't It's
Sam Killermann
#39. Being true to one's duty is a mark of true disciples of the Lord and the children of God. Be valiant in your duty. Stay in step. Do not fail in your most important task, that of keeping your second estate. Be true to your duty, for it will bring you to God.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#40. When you are living your life according to your values, you are being true to yourself and others. There is congruence between what you think, what you say, and what you do.
Ruthann M. Wilson
#41. People aren't defined by their relationship. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships.
Nina Dobrev
#42. Being true to oneself more often leads one toward success rather than away from it.
Mike Svob
#43. There is nothing more meaningful than being true to yourself and finding your own voice. Follow your heart and don't let anyone discourage you.
Jane Fulton Alt
#44. We honor our heroic and patriotic dead by being true men, as true men by faithfully fighting the battles of our day as they fought the battles of their day.
David McMurtrie Gregg
#45. Understanding your strengths and weaknesses is an unending process of self-discovery and creative evolution. Real success depends on being true to what fascinates you.
Paul O'Brien
#46. When you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.
Felicity Jones
#47. Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
Richard Dawkins
#48. At the end, entrepreneurship is not about wearing expensive suits and earning a lot of money. It is all about being true to yourself, to your values in life. Your dreams.
Richard Branson
#49. Beauty isn't skin-deep. It's bone-deep. Heart-deep. Soul-deep. Only put to sleep. When we prick our finger on fear. Beauty can't be bought or made. It can only be awoken through laughter, and living, and love. Through being you and being true.
Siobhan Curham
#50. I had found that taking risks, being true to myself, and making decisions with good intentions can exceed even my own expectations.
Jennifer Lopez
#51. Let's commit ourselves to being true disciples of Jesus Christ. Not mere fair-weather followers, but disciples.
Greg Laurie
#52. Why are the ones who are too good to be true always being true to someone else?
Jim Dodge
#53. I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.
Carl Sagan
#54. I think we make our own hell down here
during our life times-
the penalty for not being true;
the punishment for fear;
we suffer the consequences
Heather Nova
#55. When we trust someone, we believe what they tell us is true. We experience it as being true. It's not the experience itself that empowers us to believe it. It is the trust.
Susan Meissner
#56. Any relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are - by definition - abusive relationships. You'll be much better off when you let them go.
Steve Pavlina
#57. What makes a writer successful is not money or fame (though both are nice) ... it's that in being true to her or himself, the words were able to connect to a reader's heart.
Miyoko Hikiji
#58. I believe that this whole question of some photography being true and some untrue is a non-question. Photography is not objective; it never was objective.
Tibor Kalman
#59. If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature ... that's what takes a long time to learn.
Ron White
#60. Figuring out who you are and being true to yourself is not just important, but it is critical to being authentic.
Kim Garst
#61. There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for me.
Charles Taylor
#62. Tamaki: Having the courage to be able to admit what you love ... enjoying what you love ... and being true to yourself ... Isn't that also what it means to be strong?
Bisco Hatori
#63. Ironically, it was because I was raised as a Muslim in the South, that I realised the value in being true to who you really are. I've just got so many things going on inside. I don't know how to resolve all of them other than being true to who I am.
Noureen DeWulf
#64. There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.
John Boorman
#65. Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater.
Nicholas Evans
#66. I'm passionate about being true to myself, sending good energy to the people around me, traveling, staying inspired, being a good friend, being a good daughter, being a good sister.
Erin Wasson
#67. Being true to yourself involves showing and sharing emotion. The spirit that motivates most great storytellers is 'I want you to feel what I feel,' and the effective narrative is designed to make this happen. That's how the information is bound to the experience and rendered unforgettable.
Peter Guber
#68. Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
Richard Bach
#70. There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. There will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
Tsunetomo Yamamoto
#71. There's good action stars. I'm a bad-guy action star. What disappoints me is when you all of a sudden you get a good action star and then he wants to play a comedy with kids, you know? That upsets me, and that's not being true to your fans.
Vinnie Jones
#72. Saying No gains you respect. When you say No, the other person may feel disappointed. But ultimately, they will respect you for taking good care of yourself. And most of all, you'll respect yourself because you are being true to yourself!
Doreen Virtue
#73. I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.
Carl Sagan
#74. But it also demonstrates how difficult it is to correct a false belief after people have made an emotional investment in that belief being true. When our heroes turn out to be sleazebags, self-deception is easier than facing the facts.
Jon Krakauer
#75. Courage and confidence are practical necessities, that courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true to truth, and confidence is the practical form of being true to one's own consciousness.
Ayn Rand
#77. I think my secret would have to be just being true to who I am and just being myself.
Tia Mowry
#78. But remember, that for every cheating wife in Botswana, there are five hundred and fifty cheating husbands."
Mma Makutsi whistled. "That is an amazing figure," she said. "Where did you read that?"
"Nowhere," chuckled Mma Ramotswe. "I made it up. But that doesn't stop it from being true.
Alexander McCall Smith
#79. Sometimes, you can hurt another person by being true to yourself, but in the longterm you are doing both of you a favour. You can also hurt them by just being a selfish bitch and there is no excuse for that. Sometimes it is quite difficult to tell the two situations apart.
Kate Kerrigan
#80. The biggest challenge is to not be affected by praise because a lot of it is not from the heart. Being true to yourself about your strengths and weaknesses, when everyone out there has a strong opinion and wants to give advice, is another challenge.
Tena Desae
#81. I know who I am, and I'm being true to myself.
S.L. Wallace
#82. I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true.
Agostinho Da Silva
#83. It's better to live one day on this planet being true to yourself than an entire lifetime which is a lie
Anthony Venn-Brown
#84. Life is all about being true to yourself and what you believe in
Andy Biersack
#85. I decided very early on that it took too much of my energy to pretend to be someone else. People will make up their minds about me whatever I do or say, but at least I know I am being true to myself.
Drew Barrymore
#86. What's the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don't change what's on the inside,were it really counts ?
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#87. To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda.
Joseph Goebbels
#88. With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.
Rabindranath Tagore
#89. ... being true to the multitudes within himself that are one and many.
Richard Flanagan
#90. Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous.
Walter Abish
#91. Mere tabloid journalists, obliged to choose between the word of a Tory MP and that of a common prostitue, have been far too stupid to see that you can put your mortgage on the latter being true.
William Donaldson
#92. Acting has helped me understand people, not only because you are acting as a character, but also because you are watching other actors work. That really helps you identify in life when someone is acting, not being true.
Steve Martin
#93. In this perfect world, there are certain imperfections that catch your eye. That's what works for me. I don't concentrate on being perfect, but instead put that effort behind my craft and being true to myself. I don't conform to pressures outside of me. I am confident about myself.
Sonakshi Sinha
#94. Remember my first tenet in getting dressed is how you feel in the morning. So if you're not being true blue to that, it usually shows.
Pharrell Williams
#95. To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.
Richard Branson
#96. Lives are rivers. We imagine we can direct their paths, though in the end there's but one destination, and we end up being true to ourselves only because we have no choice.
Richard Russo
#97. At the end of it all, what flashes before our eyes won't be all the things we did that were bigger than ourselves; they'll be all the moments when we made a difference by being true to ourselves.
Conari Press
#98. We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
Agnes Varda
#99. Actors today think that being true is being nice, or being some other "set" thing. That is not the truth. That is your miserable habit of boring everybody to death.
Stella Adler
#100. The biggest advice is being true to what you want to do. Don't worry if other people understand it or don't understand it. If what you're doing has merit, it will find its way.
Dean Koontz
