Being True Quotes

896 Being True quotes by 718 unique authors

Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter. — Edward Abbey
If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly ... but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at… — Orson Scott Card
In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been,… — Cormac McCarthy
...Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that what is taken to be true. It's the currency if living. There may be… — Tom Stoppard
The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow. — Langston Hughes
It seems to me to be true that heavens are placed in the sky because it is the unreachable. The unreachable and therefore the unknowable… — Zora Neale Hurston
The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true. — Holly Black
As the great poet wrote, ‘To thine own self be true.’…What? You don’t think a Skotos can be literate? I happen to love Shakespeare. Hamlet… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that… — Virginia Woolf
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions. — Oscar Wilde
Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure. — Dave Eggers
If one harbors anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, though in a sense known to be true, are inadmissable. — George Orwell
Old stories often turn out to be true. — Arthur Machen
Here was something I already knew to be true about myself: Just as there are some wives who will occasionally need a break from their… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Pretend and it will be true. — Ally Carter
It doesn't matter how many times you say it. It'll still be true.' 'And it doesn't matter what you won't let me say, that'll still… — Cassandra Clare
For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true — Robert Frost
I could try to pretend that I didn't care anymore, but it could never be true again. You can't just make yourself matter, and then… — John Green
That's for calling your father a fool. It may be true, but it's disrespectful. Brian Fraser to teenage Jamie — Diana Gabaldon
[D]on’t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the… — Stephen Levine
There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are suffering they are… — Stephen Levine
At some point in your life, this statement will be true: tomorrow you will lose everything forever. — Charles Yu
I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have… — Elizabeth Gilbert
What does it mean to be true to the faith? That word true implies commitment, integrity, endurance, and courage. — Dallin H. Oaks
Your first family is your blood family and you always be true to that. That means something. But there's another family and that's the kind… — Dennis Lehane

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