Gerard Way Quotes

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

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

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.

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

You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law.

I can't write what I don't believe in.

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.

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

Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul.

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

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

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.

Popularity isn't my compass. Unless it can help one to act, to be understood... that's what counts.

What I do and what I love, I don't betray that. Sometimes people say you have to tolerate it. No, you have to do what you think necessary, what your heart tells you, and go where the Almighty leads you.

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

Truth, honesty, empowerment - it's what I want for myself and my readers.

He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.

Humility is all about being truthful and honest.

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.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

I'm me. I can't put on airs. I'm not a phony. I know the way I am hurts me more times than it helps. But somehow it's all tied up with my integrity, and my integrity is the last thing I'm going to let you take from me.

You've got to demand the truth from yourself.

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

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