Truthful Quotes

• Well, I think the Yoruba gods are truthful. Truthful in the sense that i consider religion and the construct of deities simply an extension of human qualities taken, if you like, to the nth degree. i mistrust gods who become so separated from humanity that enormous crimes can be committed in their names. i prefer gods who can be brought down to earth and judged, if you like.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Earth
  • Quality
  • Taken

• When you see yourself as calm, positive, truthful and possessed of high character, you behave with greater strength. Other people respect you more. You feel in control of yourself and the situation.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Character
  • High

• Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.

  

  Adolf Loos
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Sides

• I just like talking, and I'm really truthful. Sometimes things come out of my mouth, and I think, 'Maybe I shouldn't have said that,' but at the end of the day, I am who I am! When I'm not acting, I'm going to be fully Hayley Hasselhoff, and that's what you're going to get. And I enjoy that.

  

  Hayley Hasselhoff
  • Truthful
  • Hayley Hasselhoff

• We photographers have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible.

  

  Petra Collins
  • Trying
  • Should
  • Tools

• To be gentle and kind, modest and truthful, to be full of faith and integrity, doing no wrong is of God; goodness sheds a halo of loveliness around every person who possesses it, making their countenances beam with light, and their society desirable because of its excellency. They are loved of God, of holy angels, and of all the good earth, while they are hated, envied, admired, and feared by the wicked.

  

  Brigham Young
  • God
  • Society
  • Loveliness

• I'm trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise, and truthful way, taking those everyday words and phrases and capturing them in a way that they become something else.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Trying
  • Words
  • Everyday

• My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.'

  

  Rashida Jones
  • Integrity
  • Genuine
  • Peeve

• If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Fear
  • Trust

• We live in a relativistic culture, where people are more con- cerned with being liked than being truthful. In A Sweet and Bitter Providence, John Piper does an outstanding job of bibli- cally defending key truths that the church often ignores. He gives us an example of how to take a bold and educated stand on issues of race, purity, and God's sovereignty.

  

  Francis Chan
  • People
  • Culture
  • Church

• Be truthful, say what you mean and mean what you say, don't ignore the given circumstances.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Mean
  • Circumstances
  • Ignore

• Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Fearless
  • Truthful

• You can't live a truthful life without regret.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Live
  • Regret
  • Truthful

• To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering light. Each of us will meet a different harbinger of personal failure, some innocent genius chosen by us for reasons having to do with what we see as our own inadequacies. The only remedy to this I have found is to read a writer whose work is entirely different from another, though not necessarily more like your own—a difference that will remind you of how many rooms there are in the house of art.

  

  Francine Prose
  • Different
  • Reason
  • Innocent

• I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

  

  Mira Sorvino
  • Circumstances
  • Characters
  • Variety

• All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.

  

  Wilfred Owen
  • Poet
  • Truthful
  • Warn

• Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Leader
  • Brave
  • Truthful

• You have to trust your instincts and know that the right question or the right answer will come to you. You don’t always have to have the solution to the problem; sometimes it’s very interesting to watch somebody go through the process of solving the problem, but it’s got to be truthful.

  

  Cat Deeley
  • Interesting
  • Problem
  • Sometimes

• Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful, That's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.

  

  Helen McCrory
  • Film
  • Theatre
  • Lying

• Whenever you think you're writing what other people want to hear from you, and that it'll be commercial, you're doomed to disaster. Writing has to be as truthful and specific as we can make it. The minute we think that we're reaching more people and pleasing them, we get general. And audiences sense that and turn away, shun us.

  

  Terrence McNally
  • Writing
  • Hear
  • Truthful

• Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.

  

  Lester Bowie
  • Play
  • Succeed
  • Truthful

• If you lack vulnerability then you are not being truthful to yourself.

  

  Benjamin Stone
  • Vulnerability
  • Truthful
  • Lack

• To be truthful, I think golfers are overpaid. It's unreal, and I have trouble dealing with the guilt sometimes.

  

  Colin Montgomerie
  • Sometimes
  • Trouble
  • Guilt

• I bought a crystal ball, and I wanted to use it, but I didn't know how, and I wouldn't use it until I developed a technique to use it that was truthful.

  

  Michael Moschen
  • Technique
  • Developed
  • Bought

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