Quotes About Openness

You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right.

Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.

There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

Honest speech does not seek secret places.

The most important thing for me is honesty. Just be honest and up front. I think that's the hardest.

Honesty is the greatest aphrodisiac.

I've always been about honesty, whether on the radio, whether I did a movie, whether I wrote a book. As long as you're honest, you don't lose your edge.

When I interview someone, I know in the first two minutes if I like them or not. I find that if it's easy to talk to someone and I see an openness and honesty and integrity, then I usually hire them.

No one is perfect but without honesty you've got nothing.

I'd say honesty is always the best policy. There are always a lot of arguments - but even if honesty starts some, it avoids bigger ones.

I think the most important thing for me in a relationship is honesty.

I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.

The single best thing about honesty is that it requires no follow-up.

One of the things that attracted me to Barack [Obama] was his emotional honesty. Right off the bat he said what he felt. There are no games with him - he is who he appears to be.

I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.

A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.

Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.

From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is the best policy?]

Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.

Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.

The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly.