Being Truthful Quotes

• To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

  Testimony before a Congressional Committee, pdaa.publicdiplomacy.org. May 1963.

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• The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

  Willa Cather

  Life, Beautiful, Truth

  Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.305, Courier Corporation

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• If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Honesty, Memories

  Mark Twain, Classics HD (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain (Illustrated and Unabridged)”, p.2, Classics HD

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• A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Education, Truth

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.485, Courier Corporation

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• The way to my heart is by being truthful and spontaneous.

  Michelle Trachtenberg

  Heart, Way, Truthful

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• Know that truth, forgiveness, and love can heal the world. Imagine if all of us could be truthful with ourselves, start forgiving everyone, and start loving everyone. We would no longer be selfish, gossiping would be over, and we would no longer judge one another. The world would become a place where all of us live in love.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Selfish, Judging, Forgiving

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• The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

  Frederick Douglass

  Honesty, Integrity, War

  Speech on the twenty-third anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia,Washington, D.C., Apr. 1885

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• Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.

  Virginia Woolf

  Interesting, Truthful, Results

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own (Annotated)”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

  Laozi

  Beauty, Beautiful, Thought Provoking

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.117, Chinese University Press

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  I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you've got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.

  Howard Schultz

  Inspirational, Leadership, Being Yourself

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• There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.

  Arthur Dobrin

  Trust, Truth, Honesty

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• Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

  George Orwell

  Witty, Peace, Truth

  "Politics and the English Language" (1946)

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• If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

  Jesse Ventura

  Inspirational, Memories, Truth

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• Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

  George Burns

  Funny, Success, Fake People

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• Trustable words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not trustable.

  Laozi

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Fun

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• Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Success, Fake People, Truth

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• Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

  Robert Breault

  Positive, Truth, Honesty

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• Even if you know that what you'll say will hurt a woman's feelings, I've learned that it's better to be truthful with her than it is to cover up. Ultimate honesty is what a relationship is really about.

  Stephen Moyer

  Hurt, Honesty, Feelings

  "True Blood, True Love: Stephen Moyer on Acting & Anna Paquin". Interview with Anna Davies, www.redbookmag.com. July 15, 2010.

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• I think the success of my work stems from being truthful.

  Catherine O'Hara

  Thinking, Truthful, Stem

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Humility is all about being truthful and honest.

  Radhanath Swami

  Humility, Honest, Truthful

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• The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Truth, Humorous

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• One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others

  Bruce Lee

  Independent, Blue, Inquiry

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.202, Tuttle Publishing

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• I want to play roles that I'm proud of, that I feel a certain integrity about, and I want to continue to be truthful in the work that I do.

  Laz Alonso

  Integrity, Play, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense conciliatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful.

  Wilfred Owen

  War, This Generation, Generations

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• There's no point in getting frustrated at yourself. Just be truthful.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Frustrated, Balance

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