Frederick Douglass Quotes

Stay true to your integrity, and if you're doing something that you feel like doesn't represent your integrity, speak up. You have to say that. If you're doing something that doesn't make you feel good, you probably shouldn't be doing it.

It's so important just to be true to yourself and to own your own character and take responsibility for it, and speak up and say, This isn't right; this isn't me.' It's a great lesson, not just in wrestling but in life. If you're not feeling something that's true to your heart... everybody's gotta be true.

Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself.

I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.

You have to be able to wake up in the morning and say, 'I've been true.'

Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

You can't really go wrong as long as you're true to yourself.

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

This above all; to thine own self be true.

If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

Never agree to say or do anything that isn't you.

We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.

You're betraying your whole life if you don't say what you think - and you don't say it honestly and bluntly.

When I do things that don't feel pure or make any moves that I don't feel like represent me or who I am, it makes me feel like I wanna throw up. So I just do me, and I guess people just take that how they do.

Do and act on what you believe to be right, and you'll wake up the next morning feeling good about yourself.

I think, at the end of the day, you have to live a truthful life and be true to yourself. You have one life, and everything has to fall into place around that.

My secret has always been to be true to myself.

Be true to yourself and your values.

Be true to yourself, no matter what that is.

I have to be true to what I think because that's my whole career.

Compromises lead you nowhere. You can't be happy doing something you don't believe in.

I was always taught to be myself, be honest, and be true to my roots.

I do my best to be true to who I am.

I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.