My Truth Quotes:

Once I figured out what I wanted to say in my music. As soon I recognized that and once I was living my truth, the money followed.

- Rachel Platten

topic: Wanted, My Truth

I deliver my Truth hot and hard.

- Stephen Colbert

source: "I Am America (And So Can You!)". Book by Stephen Colbert, www.vanityfair.com. October 9, 2007.

topic: Hot, My Truth, Hard

My power is immeasurable; My truth inexplicable, unfathomable.

- Sathya Sai Baba

source: "Sathya Sai Speaks, Volume 12: 1973-1974". Discourses by Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Discourse of June 19, 1974), www.sssbpt.info.

topic: Inexplicable, Unfathomable, My Truth

I can only live in my truth.

- Octavia Spencer

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: My Truth, I Can

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Funny, Bible, Truth, Inconvenient Truth, Jealousy And Insecurity

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall.. think of it, always.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: "Fictional character: Mahatma Gandhi". "Gandhi", 1982.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Sad, Justice Truth, Non Violence

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom, Inspirational Wisdom, Most Wise

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Religious, Business, Truth, Spiritual Truth, Discarded

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

- Mark Twain

topic: Memories, Needs, Good Memories, Way In Life, Being Truthful

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

- William Faulkner

topic: Truth, Honesty, Lying, Raise Your Voice, Truth And Honesty

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

- Jesse Ventura

topic: Truth, Memories, Long, Way In Life, Inspirational Change

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

- Mark Twain

topic: Life, Funny Inspirational, Honesty, Way In Life, Trustworthiness

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

- Pearl Bailey

source: Pearl Bailey (1969). “The raw Pearl”, Pocket

topic: Life, Encouraging, Being Yourself, Facing The Truth, Famous Women Inspirational

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

- James A. Garfield

topic: Teacher, Encouragement, Appreciation, Hard Truths, Powerful Women

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

- Simone de Beauvoir

source: "All Said and Done". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1972.

topic: Inspirational, Truth, Comfort, Whole Truth, Bitter Truth

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

topic: Dream, Art, Truth, Disenchantment, Bitter Truth

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Love, Inspirational, Money, Money And Fame, Walden Pond

I get to tell my truth. I get to seek meaning and realization. I get to live fully, wildly, imperfectly. That's why I'm alive. And all I actually have to offer as a writer is my version of life. Every single thing that has happened to me is mine.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Realization, Alive, Offers, I'm Alive, My Truth

Nowadays, people have a habit of relativizing religion, reducing it to "your truth" versus "my truth" versus "their truth," and that's the end of it.

- Greg Koukl

source: Source: www.biblegateway.com

topic: People, Habit, Reducing, My Truth

Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else's point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others.

- Sheryl Sandberg

topic: Believe, Communication, Views, Silencing, My Truth

I feel like my mission is to be honest with myself. My mission is to share my truth - share, not give. I think that's what an artist is supposed to do: I think they share.

- Gerard Way

source: "Exclusive: Gerard Way on 'true Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys' + New MCR Video!". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. June 12, 2013.

topic: Artist, Thinking, Giving, My Truth

I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the speciality of my desire. The other is the figure of my truth, and cannot be imprisoned in any stereotype (which is the truth of others).

- Roland Barthes

source: Roland Barthes (1990). “A lover's discourse: fragments”, Penguin Books

topic: Unique, Desire, Stereotype, My Truth

My primary relationship is with myself- all others are mirrors of it. As I learn to love myself, I automatically receive the love and appreciation that I desire from others. If I am commited to myself and to living my truth, I will attract others with equal commitment. My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.

- Shakti Gawain

topic: Appreciation, Commitment, Self Confidence, Learn To Love Yourself, Loving Myself

What is happiness to me is not necessarily for you. Someone once said, there are three truths: your truth, my truth and the truth. And I think that's true.

- Fernando Perez

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Thinking, Three, What Is Happiness, My Truth

Even the concept of the infidel is misleading, because the infidel is normally someone with a different faith, someone who refuses to recognize the truth of the words of the Koran, as revealed by God. He has every right to do so, as long as he does not question my right to believe in my truth.

- Tariq Ramadan

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Believe, Long, Doe, Different Faiths, My Truth

Being with my family and loved ones makes me feel vulnerable. Speaking my truth and then being that in action. Leaving my comfort zone but knowing that risk is going to create something beautiful. I believe I have come to good terms with my vulnerability. I welcome it now, where I didn't in the past.

- Dash Mihok

topic: Beautiful, Believe, Past, My Truth

We need to stop playing Privilege or Oppression Olympics because we'll never get anywhere until we find more effective ways of talking through difference. We should be able to say, “This is my truth,” and have that truth stand without a hundred clamoring voices shouting, giving the impression that multiple truths cannot coexist.

- Roxane Gay

source: "Peculiar benefits" by Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 16, 2012.

topic: Talking, Voice, Differences, Way Of Talking, My Truth

Yeah, I hear the truth. But this is my truth.

- Julie Anne Peters

topic: Yeah, My Truth

If the Story is not accurate to reality, it's not any kind of truth at all. So it can never be 'my truth' or 'your truth,' even though we may believe it. It can only be our delusion or our mistake or our error, but it can never be our 'truth.'

- Greg Koukl

source: Source: www.biblegateway.com

topic: Mistake, Believe, Reality, My Truth

Distrust my wisdom, but regard my truth.

- Maria Gowen Brooks

source: Maria Gowen Brooks (1834). “Zóphiël: Or, The Bride of Seven”, p.15

topic: Truth, Distrust, Regard, My Truth

It's not the skunk's fault that he's a skunk or that he gives off this really bad stink. If I am a skunk, I want to live as a skunk, I want to know what my truth is, to know the person I am without fear.

- Hrithik Roshan

topic: My Truth

My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.

- Antonio Porchia

source: "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

topic: Truth, Long, Lasts, My Truth

I tell the truth through music. Other people tend to catch on and agree with my truth and it turns out we are all really similar.

- SZA

topic: People, Telling The Truth, Turns, My Truth

I'm still trying to express my truth, my place in the world, my belief.

- Amanda Palmer

topic: Trying, World, Belief, My Truth

There are sexual things that I do that aren’t for a man. I feel empowered sometimes by being sexy and being comfortable enough to be sexy on camera — a lot of woman [sic] struggle with that. But, there are some days that I don’t want anyone to see me. I’m just a regular girl. Some days, I’m super-strong; some days, I’m super-insecure. But, I don’t really identify with any particular label. I just speak my truth, and if people like it, they like it, and if they bash it, they bash it.

- Nicki Minaj

topic: Girl, Sexy, Strong, Being Sexy, Bash

My truths are all foreknown,This anguish self-revealed.I'm naked to the bone,With nakedness my shield.

- Theodore Roethke

topic: Self, Shields, Naked, My Truth

Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life: Such a Way as gives us breath: Such a Truth as ends all strife: Such a Life as killeth death.

- Georges Hebert

topic: Jesus, Giving, Way, My Truth

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

- Judy Blume

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Sixth Grade, Grades, Being True, My Truth

I think that my films are westerns only in their exterior aspects. Within them are some of my truths, which happily, I see, belong to lots of parts of the world. Not just America.

- Sergio Leone

source: Source: www.americansuburbx.com

topic: Thinking, America, World, My Truth

I don't know why, it's just what I feel inside, the thoughts that I sing about. It's just my truth. Sometimes my emotions can be mistaken for messages.

- Erykah Badu

topic: Messages, Emotion, Sometimes, My Truth

For [people] to be like "So what it's like dealing with female characters who are completely disgusting?" I don't think they are - does that make me weird? I made a very intentional choice to not care about that stuff, and go like "I don't care about it, I'm just gonna tell my truth and see what happens."

- Leslye Headland

topic: Character, Thinking, People, Female Characters, My Truth

However difficult, however scary, I had to live my truth. I chose to be more brave than I was afraid and am loving my life as a result.

- Michael Hyatt

source: Source: www.nerdprobs.com

topic: Brave, Scary, Results, My Truth

I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.

- Ben Folds

source: Source: www.billboard.com

topic: Mind, Needs, Realizing, My Truth

Loving the process. I learn it over and again and in different ways. I'm speaking particularly to the musical process, but I definitely think that this lesson transcends. Loving the life process. Loving the process of becoming stronger by experiencing something that makes me feel unsteady. The process of speaking and living my truth and making my own path.

- Madi Diaz

topic: Thinking, Musical, Stronger, Becoming Stronger, Experiencing Something

I'm nothing. Nothing at all without writing. Without truth, my truth, the only truth I know, it's all a gambol in the pasture without rhythm or sense.

- Harlan Ellison

topic: Writing, Past, Rhythm, My Truth

A great teacher once taught me that you've got to have faith that everything happens for the best. I have had many setbacks in my career and every setback has led me that much further into my truth.

- Suze Orman

topic: Teacher, Careers, Have Faith, My Truth

I don't see social media as lending my voice as much as I see it speaking my truth. If you look at my open letters, the one I wrote about Blue Ivy too - you see, I am always as the foundation, talking about us being a better humanity. I believe in that.

- India.Arie

source: Source: www.ebony.com

topic: Believe, Blue, Media, My Truth

I just want to make sure I could tell my story the way I want to tell it. I just want to own my truth.

- Michael Sam

source: "N.F.L. Prospect Michael Sam Proudly Says What Teammates Knew: He’s Gay" By John Branch, www.nytimes.com. February 9, 2014.

topic: Way, Stories, Want, My Truth

I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do not know forms the greater part of me: This is my largesse. And with this I understand everything. The things I do not know constitute my truth.

- Clarice Lispector

topic: Knowing, Mind, Territory, Largesse, Preconceptions

What was my truth worth, if I was prepared to defend the entire world, but not those who were close to me? If I subdued hate, but wouldn't give love a chance?

- Sergei Lukyanenko

topic: Hate, Giving, World, My Truth