Anna Howard Shaw Quotes

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

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

My body gets weak without truth.

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

I'm going to be as sincere as I can in delivering the message I think is right. If people agree, great, and if they don't, I did my best.

You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.

If we do not speak with our own opinion, we prevaricate with God and our conscience.

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.

I will never say something I don't agree with or believe in... even if the reward is massive!

Standing up for what you believe in and being honest, telling the truth are all very liberating things.

I can sleep fine at night knowing that even though my honesty might not translate very diplomatically, the words I speak have good intent, and I live my life with great integrity.

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

I am led by what I find to be true, not what I find to be popular.

Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.

Live truth instead of professing it.

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

Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

At least I can say that I'm honest.

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

Strive to be authentic all the time. That's sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting.

Normally I tell the truth whether it's nice or not.

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.