Truthful Self Quotes

If you want to be honest with yourself, you have to take criticism, even if you attract adverse comments from others.

Becoming awarrior and facing yourself is a question of honesty rather than condemning yourself. By looking at yourself, you may find that you've been a bad boy or girl, and you may feel terrible about yourself. Your existence may feel wretched, completely pitch-black, like the black hole of Calcutta. Or you may see something good about yourself. The idea is simply to face the facts. Honesty plays a very important part. Just see the simple, straightforward truth about yourself.

When in doubt, tell yourself the truth.

The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.

If I know what's true in my heart and my soul, then what people say can't shape that.

One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.

The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.

You can tell other people all the alibis you want. I don't mind. But to yourself try to be honest.

Just give yourself permission to tell the truth to yourself.

Being honest when you're dealing with others is easier to do because your honesty is on the table for all to view...Being honest with yourself is more difficult because you only have to justify it in private where no one can see it.

No society, no individual, can be at peace with himself if his past is repressed or dishonest.

If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.

My movies are usually about stripping off the makeup, getting down to the skeleton.

One of the flabby lines you hear sometimes is, 'Speak truth to power'. Power knows the truth. It's speaking the truth to yourself that's the challenge.

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

Until you can love what the truth would teach you about yourself... then your love is incomplete.

Whatever your walk of life is, I think you have to be real about it.

The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.

Just speak your truth, it's an important cornerstone of how your life ends up sort of unfolding in front of you. Even if it's painful, if it's honest, it's going to bring you to the place you deserve to be.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.