Be True Quotes

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham Lincoln

Live, True, Him

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
Buddha

True, Minds, Sky

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

True, Self, Night

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, True, Important

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
Buddha

Life, Best, Failure

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Charles Kingsley

Friendship, Great, True

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Abraham Lincoln

Great, Men, True

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Henry David Thoreau

Work, True, Friend

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
John Wooden

Friendship, Good, Art

This above all; to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare

True, Self, Above

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

Trust, Great, Men

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.
Frederick Douglass

True, Others, Rather

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Swami Vivekananda

Truth, True, Different

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

Life, Good, True

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, True, Last

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
Richard Bach

Yourself, True, Fake

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
Thomas Paine

Religion, Mind, True

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
Will Durant

Time, Fool, True

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
John Wooden

Yourself, True, Else

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Strength, True, Show

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus

Yourself, True, Evil

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
H. L. Mencken

True, Everyone, Idea

God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
Dwight L. Moody

Good, God, True

Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.
Louise Brown

Yourself, Heart, True

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.
Hubert H. Humphrey

True, Effective, Propaganda

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
Niels Bohr

Crazy, True, Enough

You have to be true to yourself.
Hillary Clinton

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

Religion, Men, Hate

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
George Eliot

Life, Best, Failure

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
Julius Caesar

Men, True, Wish

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