Best 233 quotes in «being true quotes» category

If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.

If it is too good to be true....it is probably a fraud.

If something must be true for us, as humans, to exist, than it is true simply because we exist.

If you are busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself

I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival. I don't know if those two things can both be true, but that's how it was.

I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is lyric. It has to be true for me to say it.

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.

I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.

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

I think it's important to just be a good, honest person and be true to who you are.

It is true if you believe it to be true.

It's hard to be disappointed when what you expected turns out to be true.

It's important to be true to yourself and your vision.

It's ok not to be ok. Just be true to who you are.

It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.

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.

It will be true work that the kids can follow, as opposed to a facade of you doin' something, and you're doin' nothing.

I've got a hold of something that won't move. It's a willingness to keep walking into the next day, open to whatever may turn out to be true that day.

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.

I will obey my soul and be true to that within me which is highest.

Just because you want something to be true doesn’t make it that way.” -The Host

Just in general, no matter what you're doing, be true to yourself. Never let anyone else dictate how you live your life.

I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

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 .

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

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged.

If you're conscientiously seeking approval, you're not being true to yourself.

I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part.

I'm 72-years-old. There's not a hell of a lot they can do to me. I will continue to report what I see and what I feel to be true.

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

[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting.

I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.

It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.

It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.

It is not what you want that you attract, you attract what you believe to be true.

It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.

It might not be true, but that doesn't mean it's nonsense.

I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others?

It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.

It seemed too good to be true. That's grace.

I want to be true to who I am.

Just be true to yourself and don't do anything that doesn't feel right.

Knowing that the gospel is true is the essence of a testimony. Consistently being true to the gospel is the essence of conversion.

Let your speech be true and sweet.

Lord knows, if it's on the internet, it's got to be true!