David Shields Quotes

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

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

God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and ourselves.

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

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.

2020 for me is a really big year of realness and authenticity and just being who I am.

In just living my life, there's a responsibility to be true to myself, to be a responsible human.

Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

You've got to demand the truth from yourself.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

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

I'm simply trying to tell the truth about human behaviour as I see it.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

I always write what feels really true and honest and me.

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.

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

I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it's stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.

In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.

What do I really think? What do I believe in, without the horse manure?

Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.