Being True Quotes

It was astonishing to see how angry Cersei could wax over accusations she knew perfectly well to be true.

. . .and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.

The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.

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

Fidelity is simply daring to be true in small things as well as great.

That which is cannot be true.

The history of drawing is a history of 'realities'. Every age has its own conceptions, held to be true at that time, believed to be true for all times.

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.

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.

You have to have a vision and know that it's worth seeing it through. Other than that, just be true to your heart.

This can't be true but I remember it.

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.

When you are being true to what you know in your heart, your whole heart becomes clean.

It was too exactly as imagined to be true. But I felt as gladly and expectantly disorientated, as happily and alertly alone, as Alice in Wonderland.

With no specific procedure, man arrived at sweeping conclusions about the universe that have proven to be true.

Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.

We must be true to ourselves. And we must be true to others, whether they believe we are or not.

"Margaret" was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.

Know that you can make a difference in the world by being true to yourself, and moving in the direction of your dreams!

Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.

If it's on the Internet, then it's gotta be true.

Cultivate virtue in yourself, and it will be true.

The hero, in living her own life, in being true to herself; radiates a light by which others may see their own way.

In writing, as in life, always be true to your character.

Maybe you don't have to remember something for it to be true. For it to exist.

I'm not creating the universe. I'm creating a model of the universe, which may or may not be true.

I always say that everyone has to start by being true to themselves.

Gillian [Jacobs] is brilliant, and it was Lena Dunham that recommended her. I didn't see her in the part, but Lena told me that Gillian can do anything. It turned out to be true.

We do not discard something we know to be true because of something we do not yet understand.

There were so many stories around, it was almost inevitable some of them would turn out to be true.

Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.

Every thing to be true must become a religion.

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

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.

Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.

The joy is in the creation. So I've never had a target audience, it's always been about being true to the work as it emerges.

Old love, old love, / How can I be true? / Shall I be faithless to myself / Or to you?

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.

If you're being true to who you are, and the things you believe in, that is so attractive to me.

It has always been, and will always be true; those who do the most good suffer more than most do.

But it is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it.

It was almost painful to be different.

Living a fake life is definitely a fulltime job of its own. Why place some unnecessary burdens on your shoulders, when you can actually live freely by being true to yourself?

There's a difference between disclosing that which is only your business and hiding away from the world and not seeing, shining and sharing your magic.

In leadership, life and all things it’s far wiser to judge people by their deeds than their speech - their track record rather than their talk” – Rasheed Ogunlaru

Figure out what makes you laugh, and do more of it. Figure out what makes you cry, and do less of it.

I guess it's better to have a chalk smile, than an ink smile. Where chalk changes with the direction of wind, ink stays as a deep stain. Like rain, sun and hail against a fake plant.

The hack is like a politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He's a demagogue. He panders.

If they laugh at you for being true to yourself, laugh back at them for not knowing how great it feels to be in love with one's positive self.

The people who truly matter, would surely love you unconditionally for being true to yourself. So why worry about those who wouldn't accept you?