Quotes About Honesty

I have no problem with money coming in and spawning competition. I am honest enough to admit that Mahindra & Mahindra would not have been going to the IITs and doing research if there was no competition.

As long as you say I'm the guy who's real about it, I have no problem being the person who people look to to talk about race.

I have no problem with answering questions honestly or even looking outside the box and answering private questions.

In the end, you should always do the right thing even if it hurts.

But if you're going to make a judgment about me, then you need to know who I really am, not just the part I decide to tell you. I'd rather be honest about all of it and let you make the call as to whether you want to keep talking to me or not." "Have

but because giving voice to the truth of her past meant opening the door to the future.

You're going to come across people in your life who say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.

Mi limito a dire alle persone quello che già sanno, ma hanno paura di ammettere con sé stesse.

I've learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they're afraid

Vertrouw mensen,' zei hij tegen me, 'totdat ze je een reden geven om dat niet te doen. En ga daarna nooit meer met je rug naar ze toe staan.

Les gens parlent de la vérité comme si c'était l'élixir miracle pour tous les problèmes de la vie. Je suis là depuis assez longtemps pour savoir que ce n'est pas le cas, et que parfois la vérité peut faire plus de mal que de bien.

Still, I have to admit that I

All my tips and tricks and woes and worries are gong to come tumbling out before you. I'm going to divulge them. What a juicy work that is, 'divulge.' Truth opening its petals. Truth smells like Chinese food and sweat.

sometimes it's hard to tell the truth because you the truth is hard to see, because it exists in a misty, gray non-space between two strongly charged falsehoods that sound true but aren't.

His impunity thrills me, I mistake it for fearlessness, though years later he will admit to being afraid all the time.

The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose.

It takes a child to say the unsayable.

We all spend so much time, not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful, or disloyal, or childish, or banal. Or because we're too desperate to pretend that things are OK, really, that confessing to ourselves they're not looks like a bad move.

What good were real feelings anyway?

I don't mind nothing happening in a book, but nothing happening in a phony way--characters saying things people never say, doing jobs that don't fit, the whole works--is simply asking too much of a reader. Something happening in a phony way must beat nothing happening in a phony way every time, right? I mean, you could prove that, mathematically, in an equation, and you can't often apply science to literature.

I have made myself more complicated than I really am.

Does that help? Probably not, unless you are sane enough to believe that the truth about anyone is disappointing, the truth about me especially so.

Top five things I miss about Laura...Two: she's got character...she's loyal and honest, and she doesn't even take it out on people when she's having a bad day. That's character.

I can't believe I told you all those things and we've ended up talking about how great I am.' 'But we're not. You've confused the two thnigs again. You're not great. You're a shallow, feckless, self-indulgent... wanker.' 'Thanks.