Quotes About Truthfulness

I cannot tell a lie, and I'm very straightforward. Sometimes this hurts people. I've wondered if I should change, but I feel more comfortable about myself this way.

Whatever we want to think about American business - work hard, tell the truth, have morality - it's a myth. There's a lot of graft.

I think I have been very conscious throughout my career. I can't go back and remember every line of every ad I have done, but I think in the most part I have been pretty conscious that we are not making a wrong claim. I am pretty confident with everything I do.

I'm not good at throwing around rhetoric.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant [excessive thought]. You may talk as other people do: you may say to a man, "Sir, I am your most humble servant." You are not his most humble servant. You may say, "These are bad times; it is a melancholy thing to be reserved to such times." You don't mind the times ... You may talk in this manner; it is a mode of talking in Society; but don't think foolishly.

i meant what i said, and i said what i meant.

I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.

Prayer is a discipline in truthfulness, in honesty.

Kurt Cilke liked dogs because they could not conspire. They could not hide hostility, and they were not cunning. They did not lie awake at night planning to rob and murder other dogs. Treachery was beyond their scope.

Trying to be completely sincere with yourself is a good exercise.

Calling it as you see it, should include yourself as well.

Honesty is a big ticket item seemingly just out of the reach of the frivolous!

The foundation of moral life as God's truthfulness.

As one instance of this, be always ready to own any fault you have been in. If you have at any time thought, spoken, or acted wrong, be not backward to acknowledge it. Never dream that this will hurt the cause of God; no, it will further it. Be therefore open and frank when you are taxed with anything; do not seek either to evade or disguise it; but let it appear just as it is, and you will thereby not hinder but adorn the Gospel.

I tend to mean what I say: in life, generally; in recipes, certainly.

For me, you want to be recognized as someone who is real and shoots people straight.

I was always myself. I never pretended I'd been to a gig the night before and was hanging out with Rita Ora, because that's not what I do.

Behind the scenes, I'm not a politicker. I have a very hard time telling somebody they're right when I feel they're wrong, and I have a very hard time telling somebody they're good when I feel they're not. That's just me.

I speak my heart out. My outspokenness and forthrightness won hearts.

I've got nothing to hide.

I don't have anything to hide.

I don't hide anything. There's just nothing to hide with me.

Well, I've got nothing to hide. Absolutely nothing.

I never hide anything.