Quotes About Truthfulness

It has always been my contention that an individual who can be relied upon to be himself and to be honest unto himself can be relied upon in every other way.

As an interviewer, I don't think you can dance around the subject. Certainly the interview subject knows if you are dancing, and the viewer knows that you are dancing. If it's a hard question, you just have to ask it.

There's a genuineness that I hope I offer to viewers.

A lot of other bands have tried to go out there and say we've got views on this and views on that. But some of it I've found opportunist. Duran Duran has always been honest about everything. We've always laid everything out.

You've got to be who you are. You've got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you've got to be willing to express it.

The truth comes with a cost: the need to face reality.

Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Afterward a reporter asked Gandhi's assistant, Mahadev Desai, how the Indian statesman had been able to deliver such a speech without any notes. "You don't understand Gandhi," Desai responded. "You see, what he thinks is what he feels. What he feels is what he says. What he says is what he does. What Gandhi feels, what he thinks, what he says, and what he does are all the same. He does not need notes.

The first key to greatness," Socrates reminds us, "is to be in reality what we appear to be.

To develop your integrity, make a commitment to yourself to be scrupulously honest. Don't shave the truth, don't tell white lies, and don't fudge numbers. Be truthful even when it hurts. To develop authenticity, be yourself with everyone. Don't play politics, role play, or pretend to be anything you're not. To strengthen your discipline, do the right things every day regardless of how you feel.

No one can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself." —JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

tell the truth interestingly.

Damoclean, but these were people without pretense or affectation

Admit when you don't know the answer. Don't try to fake your level of knowledge or skill by making up an answer when you don't know one. Admit if you don't know something.

If you tell me the truth, I'm going to be mad, but I'll get over it. If you lie to me I'm never going to be able to trust you again. Your choice!

I can't act. I can't lie.

I would never lie to anyone about history.

Bernie Mac don't sugarcoat.

Finally, in your conduct be friendly toward everyone And a burden to none. Toward God, live a holy life; toward yourself, be moderate; toward your fellow men, be fair; in life, be modest; in your manner, courteous; in admonition, friendly; in forgiveness, willing; in your promises, true; in your speech, wise; and out of a pure heart gladly share of the bounties you receive.38

Having integrity is about being the same person on the inside that we are on the outside, and if we don't have integrity, life becomes exhausting.

The story of Sodom and Gomorrah epitomizes the Gospel. Every act in the great, the awful drama of life is here foreshadowed. The analogy is so perfect that we might almost be tempted to believe that this story is a prophetic allegory, did not nature itself witness its historic truthfulness.

Ich sag's ihnen in's gesicht.

I can't even front and try to get along...being fake just isn't in me.