Quotes About Honesty

If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times.

Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.

Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.

Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.

The thing about any character is that you want to be sincere.

Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.

There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.

People want the truth, even if they disagree.

Current government regulation interferes with honest voluntary exchanges by imposing arbitrary terms and requiring tons of paperwork disclosing information no one wants anyway.

All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be.

Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.

I believe if you want to be trusted, you have to trust first. If you do that, you will be betrayed sometimes. But the value of engendering trust is greater than the cost of being betrayed sometimes.

I get so used to saying what I think people want to hear, I forget they might just want the truth sometimes.

If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.

Poems are the 'daredevil' of writing because a poem will say what nobody else wants to say.

I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don't want to be wrong. There's nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.

I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.

I live my life with a lot of integrity based on what I want for my life and who I am.

An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.

[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.

And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.

Think what you want, this is what we are.

I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt.

I want a woman who can go to the saloon with me, not hypocritical, fame seeking