Quotes About Honesty

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" "Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.

La mentira y el deterioro se suelen colar a través de los adverbios del tiempo.

La verdad duele, pero lo que más duele es el engaño.

You will lose because people can sniff out a poser from a mile away.

seguir nuestro propio camino, la clave definitiva para ser presentadores genuinos y auténticos en los que la gente sienta que puede confiar.

I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?

Men will say, "I'll call you. I'll call you." When they say they're going to call, they don't, and when they say they're not going to come, they do.

People can love their lies, tell their lies, believe their own lies until hell pays a visit.

Don't tell people you care about them when all you really care about is getting your own way.

Life is all we have, and if we can't look at it honestly, are we really living?

No friend of my parents is a pervert. It's physiologically impossible.

Love and truth have no correlation.

There is truth. There is a truth. And what you want, or you feel, or you need, isn't going to change the truth.

The truth will set you free, and then you shall be free indeed.

No, that is not what I want for you, my little girl. I want you to be a woman with a wise and understanding heart, healthy in body and honest in mind.

It was a hard struggle, but what I have in life I have earned with my own hands. I have done well, and I have an honest man's honest pride. I want no lands and honors which I have not won by my own good sense and industry.

It was a hard struggle, but what I have in life I have earned with my own hands. I have done well, and I have an honest man's honest pride. I want no lands and honors which I have not won by my own good sense and industry.

Salerno-Sonnenberg was terrified of losing DeLay. She finally decided that trying and failing -- an honest failure -- was better than the course she had been on.

This student takes practice tests and then lies to him about her score. He is supposed to tutor her on what she doesn't know, but she can't tell him the truth about what she doesn't know!

Virtue often is used to camouflage cowardice.

Whether those claims are true or false is irrelevant. When we cross these lines, we are justifying behavior that we know is wrong precisely so that we can continue to see ourselves as honest people and not criminals or thieves. Whether the behavior in question is a small thing like spilling ink on a hotel bedspread or a big thing like embezzlement, the mechanism of self-justification is the same.

We are forever being told that we should learn from our mistakes, but how can we learn unless we first admit that we made those mistakes? To do that, we have to recognize the siren song of self-justification.

Sometimes I've been known to overshare and that gets you nowhere.