Tell Your Truth Quotes

#1. Never let your soul be silenced. Live life out loud. Every day tell your truth not with words but with actions from your heart.

Cory Booker

#2. I will play Truth or Dare, you sucker, until you can't tell your truth from your dare. -CAROLINE

Alice Clayton

#3. It's your writing you guys. Follow it wherever it takes you. All you need to do is tell your truth.

M. Molly Backes

#4. Read critically, write consciously; speak clearly; tell your truth!

Clint Smith

#5. The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But it damn well better be beautiful.

Dorothy Allison

#6. When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader.

Mary J. Blige

#7. Then "wrong" is right, and "right" is wrong! Yet I'll tell you this, to help you out of your dilemma: believe nothing I say. Simply live it. Experience it. Then live whatever other paradigm you want to construct. Afterward, look to your experience to find your truth.

Neale Donald Walsch

#8. When you fail to tell the truth, you are kept bound to the past in ways that devastate your soul.

Debbie Ford

#9. It is almost better to tell your own lies than somebody else's truth; in the first case you are a man, in the second you are no better than a parrot!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent.

Parker J. Palmer

#11. Tell the truth, because sooner or later the public will find out anyway. And if the public doesn't like what you are doing, change your policies and bring them into line with what people want.

Ivy Lee

#12. I'll tell you what my mother always said. 'When it comes to marriage, if both don't win, nobody wins.' The longer I lived with your dad, the more I saw the truth in that. In the end, nobody won." "Well,

Terrie Todd

#13. I tell you, deep inside you is a fountain of bliss, a fountain of joy. Deep inside your center core is truth, light, love, there is no guilt there, there is no fear there. Psychologists have never looked deep enough.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#14. As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.

Harper Lee

#15. It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.

Zoe Akins

#16. This is not necessarily the answer people want, but ultimately, I think writing is an amoral process. Your ultimate responsibility is to the truth of the story you're trying to tell.

Lynn Coady

#17. That was the trouble with not being right in the head. You couldn't always tell if your eyes were telling the truth.

Christina Henry

#18. Wherever you go you will find people lying to you, and as your awareness grows, you will notice that you also lie to yourself. Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves. You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you.

Miguel Ruiz

#19. Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own.

Junot Diaz

#20. They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it.

Jeff Lindsay

#21. Why do people complain when your crabby but the moment there crabby you tell them to stop moaning they moan so fuckin unreal

Emma Mckenzie

#22. Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.

E.W. Howe

#23. You want people who are both great fans and supporters and believers of your work and people who are also ruthlessly honest. People who will tell you the truth about it. Over the years I've picked up some friends and I know who to show what to and they'll give me the proper read.

Rob Bell

#24. Sometimes a bus is your bus, and sometimes it ain't, and it's important that you can tell the difference.

Steven J. Carroll

#25. Happiness is about being proud of who you are. Be a good friend, be a good daughter, be reliable, be willing to laugh when things get tough, compliment other girls, care about your job, believe in yourself, be vulnerable, tell the truth, apologize when needed, forgive people ...

Erin Foster

#26. Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell you nothing more.

Jeff Buckley

#27. If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

Pietro Aretino

#28. It's hard to live your life in color, and tell the truth in black and white.

Gregg Allman

#29. You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#30. Let me tell ye in your sleep how much I love you. For there's no so much I can be saying to ye while ye wake, but the same poor words, again and again. While ye sleep in my arms, I can say things to ye that would be daft and silly waking, and your dreams will know the truth of them. Go

Diana Gabaldon

#31. You're wondering if I really would slit your throat. To tell the truth, I don't know either, but think of the fun we could have finding out.

Terry Pratchett

#32. You're a quiet one. You keep to yourself, but when you speak up, you tell the truth: in your music and every other way.

Cinda Williams Chima

#33. As somebody back then wrote, "Facebook is where you lie to your friends, Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers.

Jon Ronson

#34. A true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#35. Man wants the truth about Ed Watson," Daniels jeered. "Where you aim to find it? Smallwoods'll tell you their truth, Hardens'll tell you theirs. Fat-ass guard out there, he'll tell you his and I'll give you another. Which one you aim to settle for and make your peace with?

Peter Matthiessen

#36. At the time I thought what I had with you and your mother was better than nothing. But if you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.

Cassandra Clare

#37. When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

Mark Twain

#38. Find your mark, look the other fellow in the eye, and tell the truth.

James Cagney

#39. I tell you, you will not see the new beauty and the truth, until you make up your minds to spit.

Kazimir Malevich

#40. Young actors, fear your admirers! Learn in time, from your first steps, to hear, understand and love the cruel truth about yourselves. Find out who can tell you that truth and talk of your art only with those who can tell you the truth.

Constantin Stanislavski

#41. I feel the weight of just telling the truth. There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.

Jussie Smollett

#42. You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#43. There is no man on this earth that has the right to tell you how beautiful you are, for no words we use has enough power to tell that truth. Your beauty can only be describe by the heavens above in a language none of us know.

Vincent Edwards

#44. No matter how much you tell yourself your over someone, your heart knows the truth

Lauren Barnholdt

#45. Everyday in the heat, rain and cold, I ran, alone in the woods ... in the hills near our home. There I felt the gentle touch of God. And I heard His whisper, You're stronger now. It's time to tell the truth of what happened. Tell your story to give someone hope.

Nikki Rosen

#46. Lovers beware and take good head to whom
You give your love, for whom you suffer pain.
I tell you there are few enough among them
To be trusted to give true love back again

Robert Henryson

#47. I know I don't. But it's the truth. Do you know how long I've waited to tell you the truth? I've jacked off every day this week thinking about your perfect lips around my cock.

Karina Halle

#48. Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.

Ben Carson

#49. The truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.

Jack McDevitt

#50. I made myself a rule: write out of love. And when you love somebody, you have to tell the truth about who they are - not the cute "truth" in your head of who they are, the one where you did everything right and they did everything wrong.

Leigh Newman

#51. There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.

Greta Garbo

#52. It's been my experience when you lie things work out in such a way that you are obliged to tell many more lies to cover up your first one. It's so much easier to just tell the truth the first time around.

Astrid Yrigollen

#53. Coop kissed me deeply, drawing my breath from me in a long, sweet ribbon. "Perhaps I haven't mentioned it, but I'm an expert when it comes to first steps."
Are you," I said. "Then tell me how."
You close your eyes," Coop answered, "and jump.

Jodi Picoult

#54. It's always the people who strive to find, and tell you about one of your imperfections, that want to feel one step above you. The truth is their ten steps below you with nothing better to say.

Ron Baratono

#55. Ask your mother to tell you how much she loves you. Listen carefully to the truth in her voice.

Key Ballah

#56. To tell you the truth, in the old Jewish shtetls, if your husband died, sometimes they'd have you marry the brother, and my grandparents were actually stepbrother and stepsister.

Amy Heckerling

#57. I feel compelled not to pass on a vision of bleakness, destruction or cynicism. I want to tell the truth as I see it, but I also have to believe that individuals - my kids, your kids, whoever - can do something about it, and I want to show the ways in which they can do something about it.

John Edgar Wideman

#58. A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth,

Tom Morello

#59. To tell the truth will make me loathsome in your eyes.
Even more than I already am.
I pledge to give you all the truth that's in me.
And you want me to tell you this.

Julie Berry

#60. A sincere friend conceals all your deformities, deceives and convince others that you are extremely perfect, the insincere will tell the truth of destruction, leave you open for others to glare and laugh.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#61. A lot of young women ask me, 'Can you go into politics and maintain your ideals?' Well, I think you can. You might not, in any one interview, tell the whole truth, but to deliberately deceive the public who've elected you is totally unacceptable.

Joan Kirner

#62. You can't build a future if you do not know who you are. You can't become who you are meant to be if you can't tell the truth about who you are, what you have, and everything about your life. The truth is the absolute essence to your success, while lies are the absolute essence to your failures.

Suze Orman

#63. Considering what a hot, wed dog smells like, dog stew has a surprisingly savory odor To tell the truth, it tastes pretty good, like oxtail. To be perfectly honest, it's delicious. (Anything about this to my golden retriever, and I'll punch your lights out.)

P. J. O'Rourke

#64. If you don't tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth about your own life, someone may claim the right to tell it for you.

Lucinda Roy

#65. But people as a rule believe only what they want to believe, and if you tell them anything else they'll call you a trouble-maker and get rid of you and never give you your job back, even if what you said is proved spot on right by time.

Dick Francis

#66. To tell the truth, though, I don't think I deserve your kindness. I'm trying my best to be a much better person, but things aren't going so well.

Haruki Murakami

#67. Tell your boss what you really think about him
and the truth shall set you free.

Patrick Murray

#68. One doesn't want appreciation... one wants response. To tell you the truth, I don't know what I want of you, or of anybody for that matter. I want more than I get, that's all I know. I want you to step out of your skin - I want everybody to strip down, not just to the flesh, but the soul.

Henry Miller

#69. Do you know the feeling you get when you are awakened in the middle of a dream? The dream story is still real and full of color, but the waking world is rushing back into your mind. And for a moment both worlds are true, and you cannot quite tell them apart.

Shannon Hale

#70. Live your own truth and it won't matter how many lies they tell about you. The truth will prove itself.

Tony Gaskins

#71. One of the nicest things you can do to kick-start your children's day is to tell them honestly they look nice as they head out the door. This easy, five-second exchange says to your child: I see you; I notice you; I love you.

Molly Friedenfeld

#72. You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.

James Earl Jones

#73. Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

Larry Merchant

#74. When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.

Ali Vincent

#75. Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.

Henry Wotton

#76. Always communicate no matter how hard it is to tell someone something's wrong. It's worse not to talk about it. I learn this every few years. The truth hurts for 3 days. Lack of truth hurts your whole life.

James Marsters

#77. I would tell my 14 year old self to never ever, ever put all of your money in one bank account. And love the ones who love you back. You're going to want to quit ... DON'T! Oh, and get everything in writing.

Brandi L. Bates

#78. Everything I tell you is a lie. Every question I ask is a trick. You will find no truth in me. Though you believe nothing else, you may rest your faith on this.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#79. THE MISCONCEPTION: You calculate what is risky or rewarding and always choose to maximize gains while minimizing losses. THE TRUTH: You depend on emotions to tell you if something is good or bad, greatly overestimate rewards, and tend to stick to your first impressions.

David McRaney

#80. True, sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between authentic anger and bullshit and that's why the following exercise is designed to help you express your resentments with integrity, and not with demoralizing bullshit

Will Jelbert

#81. To succeed in business, you need somebody in your corner who cares enough to challenge you and is courageous enough to tell you the truth, especially when the pressure is on.

George Foreman

#82. Whenever you can call your enemy and tell him that you truly love him with compassion, then you are practicing the power of true love.

Debasish Mridha

#83. Let me get you to understand I don't bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I'm very honest and I always tell the truth. I'm not a liar, I'm not manipulative and I don't stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.

NeNe Leakes

#84. I tell people, and it's the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won't make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won't make you a servant of Christ.

Joyce Meyer

#85. You tell me the truth. You tell me that my son died for oil. You tell me that my son died to make your friends rich. You tell me my son died to spread the cancer of Pax Americana, imperialism in the Middle East.

Cindy Sheehan

#86. Tell me the truth," he rasps. "Admit it made you hot. It made you wet. You are coiled so tight I could slide my hand down your panties and make you come before you could tell me to stop.

Sarah Castille

#87. Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth.

Theresa Breslin

#88. Hide what you have to hide And tell what you have to tell You'll see your problems multiplied If you continually decide To faithfully pursue The policy of truth

William Batchelder Greene

#89. First tell the truth, then give your opinion.

Dennis Prager

#90. When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.

Rumi

#91. I shall tell you a truth ... your lips taste of sweet ripened berries. I should be so forward as to take them in degust. And if it cannot be so, then I shall kneel until that day in purgatory.

Nely Cab

#92. The world was full of people who could not get over things. There was no closure and there was no peace. The truth did not set you free. But you could get through things. That's what Bosch would tell him. You could head toward the light and climb and dig and fight your way out of the hole.

Michael Connelly

#93. When you're dealing with your life, my God, you gotta tell the truth.

Elaine Stritch

#94. If you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty.

Stephen King

#95. If you don't want your children to know the truth about life don't send 'em to the theater to see Moms 'cause I'm gonna tell them THE TRUTH, hear?

Moms Mabley

#96. Reach out, share your truth, tell someone, "This is who I am. This is what I stand for. Hold me to it." Often, we'll do far more for another than we will do for ourselves.

Kamal Ravikant

#97. Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#98. Keep back no part of the precious truth, but speak what you know, and testify what you have seen. Let not the toil or darkness, or possible unbelief of your friends, weigh one moment in the scale. Up, and be marching to the place of duty, and there tell what great things God has shown to your soul.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#99. [Everyone needs] a woman who'll listen, take your side, tell the truth - or not, as you need it. A woman you can count on, no matter what, and who'll love you no matter how much you screw up.

Nora Roberts

#100. I love you enough to tell you the truth whether you want to hear it or not, but what you do afterward is your choice alone.

Ashley Ormon