Being True Quotes - Page 3

• Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Inspiring, Being Yourself, Inspiration

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.486

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• I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

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• A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

  Jim Morrison

  Best Friend, Friendship, Being Yourself

  "Indulge In Your Friendships — The Best Reinvention Of Them All" by Kathi Sharpe-Ross, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2013.

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• Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Graduation, Honesty

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• This above all; to thine own self be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Relationship, Family, Trust

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.365, Library of America

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• Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Nba

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• I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Integrity, Love Yourself, Winning

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• A lot of people, black, white, mexican, young or old, fat or skinny have a problem being true to they self. They have a problem looking in the mirror and looking directly into their own souls. Only reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly into my face and find my soul

  Tupac Shakur

  Mirrors, Self, Who I Am

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• Personal style is about taking a risk, trying something unexpected, and having fun with fashion, but always being true to yourself.

  Ralph Lauren

  Fashion, Fun, Risk

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• Finding and creating your life's work, even if it is entirely different from what you have done most of your life, will bring you more happiness and health than any other action you can take. If your primary responsibility in life is being true to yourself, that can only be accomplished by carrying out what you are called to do - your unique and special vocation...Your life's work involves doing what you love and loving what you do.

  Dennis Kimbro

  Love, Life, Motivational

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• The key to success is to be true to who you really are.

  Dan Miller

  Keys, Key To Success

  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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• It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Long, Enemy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.43, Criss Jami

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• While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

  Agnes Repplier

  Art, May, Pleasure

  Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

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• Ah, love, let us be true
  To one another!

  Matthew Arnold

  Love, Certitude

  "Dover Beach" l. 29 (1867)

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• We all have within us a deep sense of what we need, and what is right and true for us. To access this we need to pay attention to our feelings and our intuition. We need to learn to listen deeply to ourselves and to trust what we hear. And we need to risk acting on what we feel to be true. Even if we make mistakes, we must do this in order to learn and grow.

  Shakti Gawain

  Mistake, Order, Feelings

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Creating True Prosperity”, p.114, New World Library

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• God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good, and is no sillier than any other theology.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Religion, Sound, Splits

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.322, Penguin

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• People ask me all the time, "What are your influences? Are you trying to do Beckett?" It's like, "No, I'm trying to do me." Whatever that is. I don't know what that is, but that's the basis. I'm trying to be true and I'm trying to be honest.

  Charlie Kaufman

  People, Trying, Honest

  "Charlie Kaufman" by Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2008.

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• I would say, if you're a musician then you probably have some capacity and some intuition. You've got to trust that intuition and be true to what compels you. There will be a lot of things along the way that will try to remove you from that, and if you do, then I think you are diminished. If you stay with it, then you have something that's real.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Real, Thinking, Intuition

  "Get Back to That Place: Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins Talks Touring Again and Why He Adores Tove Lo". Interview with Kelli Bender, people.com. June 30, 2015.

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• Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn't that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we're tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.

  Ann Voskamp

  Gratitude, Simple, Hard Life

  Source: livesentresources.wordpress.com

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• We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait (as we have conceived it), in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.

  Pamela Hansford Johnson

  People, Portraits, Details

  Pamela Hansford Johnson (2012). “Night and Silence, Who is Here?”, p.117, Pan Macmillan

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• Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Fun, Views, Justice

  Dorothy L. Sayers, Jill Paton Walsh (1999). “Thrones, Dominations”, p.126, Macmillan

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• Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.

  John Tillotson

  Wise, Men, Religion

  John Tillotson (1717). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...”, p.210

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• People have an annoying tendency to compare shoe prices with the cost of other things. They might say, 'Wow - those shoes cost as much as a sofa!' Well, this may be true, but the comparison is so silly. After all, you can't wear a sofa.

  Mimi Pond

  Silly, Shoes, People

  Mimi Pond (1985). “Shoes never lie”, Berkley Pub Group

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