quotes about Being True
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I don't actually think “true love†is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.
-- Aidan Chambers -
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
-- Alain Badiou -
Being called a person, as such, indicates that one should only have one character and be true to it.
-- Anjelica HustonSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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Old stories often turn out to be true.
-- Arthur MachenSource : Arthur Machen (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)”, p.1201, Delphi Classics
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If you value the world simply for what you can get out of it, be assured that the world will in turn estimate your value to it by what it can get out of you...If you pursue truth, people will be true to you.
-- Arthur Twining Hadley -
To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
-- Barry McGuire -
Great faith it needs, according to my view, To trust in that which never could be true.
-- Benjamin -
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Relaxed Empiricism -- I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened.
-- Bill Bailey -
If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.
-- Carrie FisherSource : Twitter post from Feb 17, 2011
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At some point in your life, this statement will be true: tomorrow you will lose everything forever.
-- Charles YuSource : Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Enhanced Edition): A Novel”, p.206, Knopf
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But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.
-- Chris Crutcher -
Whatever the drama of the story is, you have to be true to it.
-- Clint Eastwood -
I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.
-- Daisaku Ikeda -
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While it may be true – and probably is – that not all Muslims are terrorists, it also happens to be true that nearly all terrorists are Muslim.
-- Dan Gillerman -
The key to success is to be true to who you really are.
-- Dan MillerSource : Dan Miller (2008). “No More Dreaded Mondays: Ignite Your Passion - and Other Revolutionary Ways to Discover Your True Calling at Work”, p.180, Crown Business
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The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
-- Dave Chappelle -
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 -
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If you know how much reality is getting in, then you know a great deal about what a person sees to be true.
-- David J. LiebermanSource : David J. Lieberman (2007). “You Can Read Anyone: Never be Fooled, Lied To, Or Taken Advantage of Again”, p.109, David Lieberman
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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.
-- David Lynch -
It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.
-- Dirk BogardeSource : Dirk Bogarde (2014). “A Postillion Struck by Lightning”, p.171, A&C Black
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Because on some level, even though it never turns out to be true, and even though I should know better, I still expect life to be like the movies.
-- E. Lockhart -
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
-- Edward Abbey -
I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old.
-- Elvis Costello -
We must not only be True. We must be Beautiful.
-- Francis Schaeffer -
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There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made.
-- Frank KnightSource : Frank Hyneman Knight (1997). “The Ethics of Competition”, p.178, Transaction Publishers
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It was astonishing to see how angry Cersei could wax over accusations she knew perfectly well to be true.
-- George R. R. Martin -
What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.
-- George Santayana -
. . .and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.
-- Glen Cook -
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The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the whole truth.
-- Gordon Allport -
Be true to love where ever you find it, and be true to yourself and everything that you really are.
-- Gregory David Roberts -
Fidelity is simply daring to be true in small things as well as great.
-- Henry Van Dyke -
To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.
-- Henry Vaughan -
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We can all be ourselves, be true to ourselves, and all be together.
-- Herbie Hancock -
The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.
-- Holly BlackSource : Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.204, Simon and Schuster
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[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste.
-- Horace Walpole -
Being a role model is about being true to myself.
-- Idina Menzel -
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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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If it is correct to say that there will always be rightist temperaments and leftist temperaments, it is nevertheless also correct to say that political philosophy is neither rightist nor leftist; it must simply be true .
-- Jacques MaritainSource : "The Twilight of Civilization". Book by Jacques Maritain (p. 41), 1939.
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An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can be true only by accident.
-- James Luther Adams -
Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.
-- Jean LittleSource : Jean Little (2001). “Orphan at My Door: The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope”, Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada
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God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.
-- Jefferson DavisSource : Benjamin Harrison (1901). “Views of an Ex-president”
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Never expect, never presume, always work hard and always be true to who you are.
-- Jessie JSource : Twitter post from Nov 10, 2011
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It's ok not to be ok. Just be true to who you are.
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Why are the ones who are too good to be true always being true to someone else?
-- Jim Dodge -
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I don't feel like I am 66 at all. I feel more like I am 35. But I have a bus pass so it must be true.
-- Joanna Lumley -
My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.
-- Joaquin Phoenix -
All inspired painters are impressionists, even though it be true that some impressionists are not inspired.
-- Joaquin Sorolla -
Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.
-- John Lancaster Spalding -
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No man is worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.
-- John VanbrughSource : 'The Relapse' (1696) act 3, sc. 2
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My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.
-- Juliette Binoche -
Faith is not the supposition that something might be true, but the assurance that someone is there.
-- Kallistos WareSource : Kallistos Ware, Kallistos (Bishop of Diokleia) (1995). “The Orthodox Way”, p.16, St Vladimir's Seminary Press
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I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?
-- Kelly Osbourne -
If it's on the Internet, then it's gotta be true.
-- Ken Jennings -
In writing, as in life, always be true to your character.
-- Laurie Faria Stolarz -
Maybe you don't have to remember something for it to be true. For it to exist.
-- Lisa McMannSource : Lisa McMann (2012). “Dead to You”, p.71, Simon and Schuster
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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
-- Lloyd Alexander -
Be true to what you said on paper.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
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In Buddhism, compassion always goes with wisdom. Compassion without wisdom is not understood to be true compassion, and wisdom without compassion is not true wisdom.
-- Masao AbeSource : Masao Abe (2016). “Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue: Part one of a two-volume sequel to Zen and Western Thought”, p.15, Springer
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Just be true to yourself and don't do anything that doesn't feel right.
-- Matt Preston -
A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.
-- Maxwell MaltzSource : Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.28, Penguin
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Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.
-- Meg CabotSource : Meg Cabot (2010). “Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls Book 5: Glitter Girls and the Great Fake Out”, p.100, Scholastic Inc.
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Authenticity is about being true to who you are, even when everyone around you wants you to be someone else
-- Michael Jordan -
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Being true to oneself more often leads one toward success rather than away from it.
-- Mike Svob -
If something must be true for us, as humans, to exist, than it is true simply because we exist.
-- Nagaru Tanigawa -
We do not discard something we know to be true because of something we do not yet understand.
-- Neil L. Andersen -
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.
-- Orson Scott Card -
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A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
-- Oscar Wilde -
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
-- Oscar Wilde -
It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term
-- Peter L. Berger -
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True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
-- Philip Caputo -
I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true
-- R. Buckminster Fuller -
Never affirm or repeat about your health what you do not wish to be true.
-- Ralph Waldo TrineSource : Ralph Waldo Trine (2013). “In Tune with the Infinite”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
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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 -
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A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.
-- Richard AdamsSource : Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.94, Oneworld Publications
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
-- Richard Dawkins -
One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or false.
-- Robert Collier -
Have the guts to be true to yourself. Nothing more.
-- Robin Sharma -
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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.
-- Rush Limbaugh -
I always try to be true to who I am and just be myself.
-- Sam ClaflinSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words: we say one thing & do another.
-- Steven Levitt -
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
-- Swami Vivekananda -
I wanted it not to be true. I wanted it not to be her plane. I wanted it - I wanted, if it was her plane, to have somehow survived because she was in the back of the airplane. But we know that doesn't happen, not with those sorts of things.
-- Ted Olson -
We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us. But we make ourselves true inside by manifesting the truth as we see it.
-- Thomas Merton -
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Despite what you hear and say there will always be that one voice that will always be true to you.
-- Tony DiTerlizzi -
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 -
Empirical laws [...] have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true.
-- Vilfredo ParetoSource : Vilfredo Pareto (1971). “Manual of political economy”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs
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It has always been, and will always be true; those who do the most good suffer more than most do.
-- Wes Fesler -