Being True Quotes

• ‎All my stupid little thoughts beget stupid little thoughts, rampantly speculating every possible outcome of every possible situation until they're all done to death and none of them could ever be true.

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  Stupid, Done, Littles

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• Every thing to be true must become a religion.

  Oscar Wilde

  Truth

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.98, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

  Jim Morrison

  Famous Love, Being Yourself, True Friend

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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• Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Life, Self Esteem

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Success, Business

  FaceBook post by Donald J. Trump from Nov 21, 2016

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• be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Real

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  Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

  Howard Thurman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Graduation, Bullying

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. Judy Garland.

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• Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Smile, Graduation

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• Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.

  Tim Field

  Meaningful, Being Yourself, Bullying

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• Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.

  Louise Brown

  Giving Up, Believe, Writing

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• An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

  Honore de Balzac

  Being Yourself, Work, Love Yourself

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  I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

  Frederick Douglass

  Respect, Fear, Integrity

  Frederick Douglass (2013). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

  Rita Dove

  Mean, Spirit, Be True To Yourself

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• Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Heart

  "The World As I See It (Letter to a Friend of Peace)". Book by Albert Einstein, 1949.

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• Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Gay

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• The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Being Yourself, Just Being

  "Gift from the Sea". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Chapter 2, 1955.

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• Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

  Jim Morrison

  Love, Life, Friendship

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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• Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Truth

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2375, Manonmani Publishers

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• Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Love Yourself, Taken

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

  John Wooden

  Friendship, Art, Book

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• Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Friendship, Nature

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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