Quotes About Honesty

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

People have this misconception that I'm going to beat them up when I meet them. But it's like... no. Just 'cause I stand up for myself, and I'm honest, that doesn't mean I'm going to beat people up all the time.

How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's.

I feel like it's my responsibility and my obligation to stand up and to say that which I believe to be the truth.

What can I say that will make people that are in recovery want to stand up and support Recovery Month? A friend of mine said, 'You know, the fact that you did a really honest book and it changed people's lives, that's something to talk about.'

If you can't be president - if you cannot stand up and represent Americans, you should not be president.

I want people who will stand up to me. People who are not afraid to say exactly what's on their minds, even though that's probably not what I want to hear. That's what I want.

The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We'll tell you, you don't have to drag it out of us.

I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

My challenge to members on both sides of the aisle is to stand up and have the integrity to say that we have a dead U.S. agent; we have a Department of Justice that lied to Congress.

If I feel like someone is unjustly being attacked, I'll stand up for them. If I feel like someone is lying, then I'm going to call them on it.

We live in a world with men wanting to be brave. Not many will stand up and say, 'I don't feel right here.'

A fiduciary standard means, basically, put the interests of the client first. No excuses. Period.

I don't believe in pulling punches or being judicious, as the standard in literary criticism or academic musicology.

Every relationship I was in, I loved the girl. It's just the moral values and standards was off. I was loving and lying.

If you can maintain your standards and your integrity and you fail, it's OK. It's when you sell out and you fail that you feel pretty sick inside.

If we're going to have standards in schools, let's be honest and have standards.

I'm not an expert on journalistic standards. I want to be clear on that.

I can't have double standards, so I do what I believe in.

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.

I think standing up for facts and decency is important, and we should've done more of it back in 2015 and 2016.

My father was my hero, both for the physical things he could do and for the values he taught me, about honesty and standing up for what you believe in. I never felt like I was living in his shadow.

I kinda always felt like I am out, for all intents and purposes. So I always came from the standpoint of, 'Why does writing it in an article or saying it in an article make me gay?' That doesn't make me gay or not. I'm living my life. I'm not lying; I don't hide it.