Quotes About Honesty

Living your life authentically means living your life being true to what is highest and best within you without misrepresentation.

Living authentically means living as the real you without deception. It means you are the person you say you are, not the person you want people to believe you are or the person others expect you to be.

Peter Enns is correct: "We do not honor the Lord nor do we uphold the gospel by playing make-believe."[164]

Your authentic, true self doesn't lie to you, mislead you, or take you away from your power source.

Go on then, Sylvanas Windrunner. Tell me these truths you have never shared.

A slave should be sincere, loyal, discreet, clean, modest, honest, graceful, intelligent (that is able to learn what is required for her position), respectful of herself and others, observant, attentive, and ethical.

When he spoke, it was almost poetry and much too much truth—two sins the ton would not easily forgive.

Give me your honest opinion. I don't want truth with a veil on—I like naked ladies naked.

She had to know, soon or later, that he was no saint and never would be. He loved her, but if she was going to stay with him, she had to know the worst of him. He wanted honesty between them.

She found him very hard to resist, and if she was truthful with herself, she wasn't trying that much.

I'd like you to make an effort to share what you're feeling, good or bad, with me. I'll do the same. If we're honest with each other in our communication this will work for us.

You are safe, Lorraine. You will always be safe from me. You are the one person in this world I could never harm for any reason. The things I told you about myself are true. I am Carpathian, not vampire. I hunt the undead.

So now I'm supposed to believe you haven't been with another woman for five years. Get. Out

How could she not answer him more fully when he was looking at her so directly? When the deep, commanding way he said her name made her feel that if she didn't tell him the truth, he would be disappointed.

She tilted her chin determinedly. 'I always want the truth from you, Dayan. Without that between us, we have nothing at all.'

I don't joke about sex, not when it comes to you. I'm absolutely serious about it. And there's never joking about marriage. That's a sacred, serious topic.

Cheating? It just says he's really nothing and he doesn't respect himself or me. I'd rather live on my own.

I don't want to put you in the position of having to lie, Father. I find myself doing enough of that for Mikhail, and I'm not even certain why. Lord knows, he doesn't ask me to." There was sorrow in her voice, regret, confusion. "I wouldn't lie," he said. "Is omission the same thing as a lie, Father?

Free to call a spade a spade (and a cock a cock).

I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy

I used to be more refined but at my age, you start to realize all that politeness doesn't get you very far. Better to be honest and direct, even if it does piss off a few people along the way.

I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.

Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all.

Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all. How dare you intervene? As well ask, How dare you not?