Quotes About Honesty

Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.

We are betrayed by what is false within.

Me, I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear, seeing it for what it is, is the only way of putting it to rest.

Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

"They say so" is half a lie.

If you would wish another to keep your secret, first keep it yourself.

Two things a man cannot hide: that he is drunk, and that he is in love.

Nothing is so burdensome as a secret.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

Whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.

Learn to ... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

When one is pretending the entire body revolts.

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong."

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

To be simple is the best thing in the world.

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity.

True eloquence consists of saying all that should be said, and that only.