John Grant Quotes

It's really important to be honest to yourself.

The second you're not honest with yourself, you've lost everything.

My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

If I wasn't true to myself, I couldn't live with myself.

Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul.

I'm just, like, really about not lying to myself.

Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who's looking back at you. And you can only do that if you're being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life.

I believe that being honest to oneself and one's work is all that matters.

I try to be honest with myself.

The best advice I can give to any young man or young woman upon graduation from school can be summed up in exactly eight words, and they are-be honest with yourself and tell the truth.

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

You've got to demand the truth from yourself.

I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

You have to be honest about who you are.

You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.

One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.

I think that's the most important thing you can do to be a real person - is to be honest with yourself.

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

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

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

It's important for me to live my life honestly.

This above all,--to thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Do what in your heart you know is right. It is easy to get caught up in your ambitions, but no job is worth not being true to yourself.

I find that I don't lie about the big things in life. The things that matter. And about me. While I'm talking about myself, I rarely lie: I know who I am, my level of talent, that I'm not the most versatile filmmaker, the person I am. I don't lie about myself because I don't lie to myself.