Quotes About Honesty

These individuals need to see that as long as they continue to choose to please others at their own expense, they will be trapped. They need to discover how they try to control other people's responses by being the "good boy" or "nice girl" for them. They need to find the courage to give up that control by being frank and honest with people and allowing them to respond as they will.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

I only knew that there was a certain rightness in life--the feeling you got when you did something the way you knew you should.

They can have their little ceremony. We know the truth.

I wish I could say that I'm totally healed; but that would be a lie. This much I can say: I'm as straightforward and transparent as I'm capable of being. In the recovery process, I've searched relentlessly for total healing. I don't know if that labels me quick or slow, truly open or slightly self-deceived.

Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?

It is so difficult to be honest when someone has died; it's as if truth stops at the grave even when the lies continue to hurt the living.

the thing about portraits is, you need to show people the way they want to be seen. And I prefer to show people as I see them.

She knew that he was telling the truth, that this had been the truth for a long, long time.

Man can't live by truth alone, you know, and children even less so.

Don't remember me as too nice or beautiful or funny, because then you'll be disappointed.

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.

I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it.

Denial,they say, stands for"Don't even notice I am lying." Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our own minds about what is actually happening around us.

animals don't follow unstable pack leaders; only humans promote, follow, and praise instability. Only humans have leaders who can lie and get away with it. Around the world, most of the pack leaders we follow today are not stable. Their followers may not know it, but Mother Nature is far too honest to be fooled by angry, frustrated, jealous, competitive, stubborn, or other negative energy—even if it is masked by a politician's smile. That

Chi è veriterio, si accontenta. Non sospetta nemmeno che potranno non credergli.

Kako imati poverenja u jednu osobu koja se ne usu?uje da ti poveri ceo život, sve svoje dane i sve svoje no?i?

In short: a good conscience is nothing else but the expression of a desire we all have-to be ourselves and feel comfortable. Those who tell petty, occasional lies suffer far more than great criminals, simply because the latter are thoroughly used to it.

The path of truth is profound—and so are the obstacles and possibilities for self-deception.

The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.

Many approaches to spirituality and to life in general are influenced by cowardice. If you are afraid of seeing yourself, you may use spirituality or religion as a way of looking at yourself without seeing anything about yourself at all. When people are embarrassed by themselves, there is no fearlessness involved. However, if someone is willing to look at himself or herself, to explore and practice wakefulness on the spot, he or she is a warrior. "Warrior

Be courageous enough to be honest.