Quotes About Honesty

Their heart does not allow them to practise duplicity: if they see their friend straying from the road, or committing any faults, they will speak to her about it; they cannot allow themselves to do anything else.

never seem unable to find a reason for thinking I am being virtuous when I make excuses for myself.

Tell the truth and . . .run!" Old Croatian proverb

She talked about work; he talked about school. Carmella mentioned that she might be up for a promotion by the end of the year, and Adam said that Group, in the end, might work out after all. And during that whole time, they told each other everything except for the part that they didn't. Mother and son were as honest as two people lying to each other could be.

Only after giving up 'the truth' can we learn to speak our truth.

It teaches men, women, and nonbinary people how to live skilled relational lives—lives of radically honest, fearlessly assertive, passionate connection to themselves and to those they love.

Dan now has resources that he lacked as that little boy, like the ability to stand up to his wife, to tell Julia the truth and let the chips fall where they may. I call this letting the bad thing happen.

a single outburst does not produce a difficult relational environment. It is only when a parent [or anyone] repeatedly and regularly uses anger to close conversations, in the broadest sense of 'conversation,' that a dilemma is framed. When a parent [or partner] uses anger or the threat of anger to dominate the emotional atmosphere, then even potentially good conversations with them lose spontaneity, openness and honesty.

A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.

Pen names are masks that allow us to unmask ourselves.

I love the body. Flesh is so honest, and organs do not lie.

Can anger survive without his hypocrisy?

Civilization has been thrust upon me . . . and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity. —LUTHER STANDING BEAR, OGLALA SIOUX, 1868–1937 On

Do not allow others to make your path for you. It is your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you. Accept yourself and your actions. Own your thoughts. Speak up when wrong, and apologize. Know your path at all times. To do this you must know yourself inside and out, accept your gifts as well as your shortcomings, and grow each day with honesty, integrity, compassion, faith, and brotherhood.

I'm against people reading statements. When you read a statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. —JEROME, A.D. 324–420

I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.

I am who I am; no more, no less.

I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.

Only those you trust can betray you.

Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.