Quotes About Honesty

If you ask me what people want from me, they would probably just want me to be true to what I'm doing.

I suppose my life has always been about pleasing people, making sure theyre all right, doing the right thing. Then, suddenly, you have to face up to what you want and be honest about it.

Good teachers are not known for telling you what you want to hear, and consequently they're rarely popular because they tend to offend people on a regular basis by their mere presence on earth.

I want you to be yourself, but not with other dudes.

This willingness to be frank and plain about the way that the world is, is a good first step. But that doesn't mean that you get what you want.

Tell the truth about who you are, what you feel, what you want, what you're up to. Tell the truth about that first to yourself and then to anybody else that'll listen.

I want you to know that I'm serious. You're not a hook up. You're not a friend with benefits. You're more than that to me.

I like people who don't tell you what you want to hear.

Let me get this stright, Aya-Chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie?" -Frizz mizuno

Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it.

Don't invite me if you don't want me.

I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me.

I talk to grown-ups who are out to have a good time and they want to be spoken to in a different way. I don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.

I'm saying what a lot of people would want to say but are too embarrassed.

"Openness" [story] ultimately asks this same question - can a relationship survive complete honesty? As a romantic, I want to say "Yes, of course!" But, over time, I've come to agree with Dan Savage.

I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don't dare to let out.

My advice: write down everything you eat. It's amazing what that "self honesty" can do for you. (Do you really want to have to confess that doughnut? I thought not.)

I like real girls. When they're in bed with you, it's not a show. They just want to do that.

Believe what you want But don't dumb down what Jesus said.

No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.

The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers.

Trust is such an important principle for me. I want to believe in the best of each person, and some time back, I have experienced that trust being broken - which shook me to the core.