Quotes About Honesty

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

Is there no saving what betrays itself?

What I am is good enough if I could only be it openly.

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

In my relationships with persons I have found that it does not help, in the long run, to act as though I were something that I am not.

It is so obvious when a person is not hiding behind a facade but is speaking from deep within himself.

I find it very satisfying when I can be real, when I can be close to whatever it is that is going on within me. I like it when I can listen to myself. To really know what I am experiencing in the moment is by no means an easy thing, but I feel somewhat encouraged because I think that over the years I have been improving at it.

I found myself doing this same thing—playing a role of having greater certainty and greater competence than I really possess. I can't tell you how disgusted with myself I felt as I realized what I was doing: I was not being me, I was playing a part.

He is learning that the feelings which exist are good enough to live by. They do not have to be coated with a veneer

perhaps it is less important that a teacher cover the allotted amount of the curriculum, or use the most approved audio-visual devices, than that he be congruent, real, in his relation to his students.

When asked a question, I try to consult my own feelings. If I sense it as being real and containing no other message than the question, then I will try my best to answer it. I feel no social compulsion, however, to answer simply because it is phrased as a question. There may be other message in it far more important than the question itself.

When I see heavy dramas with no comic relief, I don't think they're honest. I don't think people go through life miserable all the time; in fact, if you're very miserable, you giggle a lot at the oddest things." --Carl Reiner in "The Trib

There aren't any embarrassing questions--just embarrassing answers.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

casualty reports on either side are never accurate, seldom truthful, and in most cases deliberately falsified.

Lies, my dear boy, can easily be recognized. There are two kind of them: those with short legs, and those with long noses. Your kind have long noses.

Don't trust to those who promise to make you rich in a day. Usually they are either mad or rogues!

Non ti fidare, ragazzo mio, di quelli che promettono di farti ricco dalla mattina alla sera. Per il solito, o sono matti o imbroglioni!

Stabilire il numero delle donnine allegre è un'impresa disperata. Anzitutto la categoria si presta male a una precisa definizione perché tra i due estremi di «donna onesta» e «prostituta pubblica» esiste tutta una vasta gamma di condizione intermedie dai contorni confusi.

Too often scientists sell hypothetical theories to the large public, as if they were established theories. I have seen this often done, for instance, with string theory. I think this is a great mistake, because it questions the credibility itself of science. We scientists live out of public money and it is our duty to be fully honest in reporting what we know and what we do not know. We are paid to dream, but we must not sell our dreams for established realities.

Para sa akin, basta manliligaw, malinis ang hangarin. Bakit ka ba liligawan ng lalaki kung meron siyang masamang balak? Kung katawan ko lang ang habol, madadaan naman sa simpleng usapan 'yun.

Why double? Because you are positioning yourself as someone experienced, reliable, who offers what your clients value most, highly recommended by key influencers, and above all, extremely honest to guarantee results based on key concerns (or else you will act responsibly to live up to the credibility you've built), not to mention that your time becomes more valuable as the demand increases.

If you don't perform, you're not credible. And second, transparency. Even when you're not performing well, transparency can help you.