Quotes About Honesty

did you really mean it?

In un mondo in cui le promesse non hanno valore. In cui giurare non significa niente. In cui si promette solo per poi non mantenere, non sarebbe male veder rinascere il potere della parola.

In der Mitte des Romans angelangt kam ich zu dem Schluss, dass das, was zwei Leute einander nicht sagen, ein stärkeres Band zwischen ihnen schmiedet als Aufrichtigkeit.

No medium is fragile if it carries the truth.

I want you to know more than just what people think is safe to tell you," she said.

In a world where vows are worthless. Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power. In

It is okay to cry, as long as you fake it.

The dark side is honest. The dark side is direct. It is the knife in the front rather than one stuck in your back. The dark side is self-interested, yes, but it is about extending that interest outward. To yourself, but then beyond yourself.

Be vigilant with the truth, Arav. Our truth, our love, it's what we have.

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer, he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

Be, rather than seem

To be rather than to seem.

primam esse historiae legem, ne quid falsi dicere audeat, n quid veri non audeat - Historiju trebamo poznavati kako ne bi govorili neistinu i kako imali hrabrosti za istinu

What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention.

It was supposed to say "Great Artist" on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say "such a good teacher/?daughter/?friend" instead; and what I really want to shout, and want in big letters on that grave, too, is FUCK YOU ALL.

The simplest and least flattering explanation was always the right one, I'd learned over the years. But

Hold nothing back. I want to hear every sigh, every moan, every scream. Is that quite clear, young lady?" "Yes

I do not lie to you, Watanuki. Because you are a very important person to me.

If you don't want her to go, you should say it. Those jerks who can't say a word no matter how much time passes ... I just don't get them. If they're doing whatever the hell they want ... then you should do what you want too. I hate those jerks who fool themselves into thinking that just because they clam up, nobody knows what's going on with them!!

Doing or not doing something - they are similar. Both involve an action and sincerity.

Mom actually said that? Cassie's face shown with happiness. She always hated my math! Nah, Martin said. She was just being that way for you. She thought it was what you needed to hear. If parents told us what they really think about stuff, we could figure them out like regular people.

As difficult as it may seem, you've got to be honest with yourself about this whole process. Change can often be difficult, and it will probably seem easier to just stick with what you are already doing. That thinking can be dangerous. You're only kicking the can down the road, and you risk waking up one day, years later, looking into the mirror, asking yourself: What am I doing with my life?