Quotes About Honesty

Accountability only works if you want it to.

I always use given and simple elements, I don't want to add or subtract anything.

We want them [senators] to be themselves, and I told them, be yourselves and say what you want to say. Don't worry about me.

I don't even think Hillary Clinton's loyal to Bill Clinton, if you want to know the truth. And really, folks, really? Why should she be, right?

I think I've learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and from your heart - and I think a healthy sense of humor doesn't hurt either.

I've stuck by being modest, honest and humble, because I think you'll get more appreciated that way and we all want to be appreciated in this world.

But here in the struggle for fame and pelf I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to look at myself and know That I'm bluster and buff and empty show.

No doubt, there are times when I'm like "We have all gotten really used to saying whatever the f - k we want to say," and it's something that I really take seriously, whatever that may be.

We're Americans. We celebrate success. We just don't want the game to be rigged.

I do what I love to do. I have awesome people who let me make the choices I want to make. I navigate things by whether I want to play a part or not, to be honest.

The one thing I never want to do is act drunk or act high. You don't do it from a mental kind of place because then you're just acting.

To impress me, a guy has to be completely unaffected by my presence. If he wants to talk to me, talk to me; if he doesn't, don't.

Be honest! You are not going to want to admit energy loss. Someone is making it hard for you to look.

The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.

Speak truth, grow still, until the water is clear between us.

As if true honesty belonged to solitude, since to be witnessed was to perform, and performance was inherently false since it invited expectation.

We are nothing but our own needs. She but showed each of us the face we hide from ourselves and everyone else. She shamed us by exposing our truths.

The two men, Tiste and Azathanai, had begun forging something between them, and whatever it was, it was unafraid of truths.

There is no armor made that can withstand the truth. -Karsa Orlong.

Madam, let's not be so crass. We're Terrans, after all, forever virtuous, eternally right in all matters of comportment, wise and clever, honest and forthright, inclined to modest errors in judgement while maintaining our heartfelt desire to do good and therefore entirely capable of sweeping under the carpet all the genocidal horrors studding our history in the galaxy.

I will aknowledge that the matter is a secret but not one of my own, so I shall freely speak of it

Well, everyone had his secrets. And few are worth sharing. Unless you enjoy losing friends.

If all honest observation ends up sounding critical, is it the honesty you then reject, or the act of observation?