Browsing Topic Best Being True Quotes

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

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.

Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.

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

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

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

May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.

In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies – the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.

Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West. You are all dependent on one another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves.

To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

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

Be positive. Be true. Be kind.

For he that feeds men serveth few;He serves all who dares be true.

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

As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.

Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

To be a Ranger is to sense the sacred trust of upholding all that such a name means in this shrine of football. They must be true in their conception of what the Ibrox tradition seeks from them. No true Ranger has ever failed in the tradition set him.

We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to sink those sorts of knowledge which continue to be true regardless of changes in the environment, but we must maintain in an accessible place all those controls of behavior which must be modified for every instance. The economics of the system, in fact, pushes organisms toward sinking into the unconscious those generalities of relationship which remain permanently true and toward keeping within the conscious the pragmatic of particular instances.

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

Live your life in your own unique way and be true to yourself.

Get a grip, Oreo, and be true to the game.

Being true to yourself involves showing and sharing emotion. The spirit that motivates most great storytellers is ‘I want you to feel what I feel,’ and the effective narrative is designed to make this happen. That’s how the information is bound to the experience and rendered unforgettable.

A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life, and certainly there’s no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness. Happiness is a state of bliss. Just because you’re satisfied one moment – saying yes, it’s a good meal, makes me happy – well, that’s not going to necessarily be true the next hour. Life has its ups and downs, and time has to be your partner. Time is your soul mate. Children are happy. But they haven’t really experienced ups and downs yet. I’m not exactly sure what happiness even means. I don’t know if I personally could define it.

Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind is also rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.

Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.

Every empire suffers from hubris, arrogance and condescension, and therefore a moral blindness. That’s true of the American empire, it was true of the British Empire earlier, and it will certainly be true of the Chinese Empire in the future.