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Quotes About Honesty

Onlar güzel insanlar, Onlar güzel insanlar, Onlar güzel insanlar, Kimse inkar edemez. Yalanc? deÄŸillerse, Yalan deÄŸillerse.
~ James Joyce
You could see into your own soul with total honesty of vision and find the wherewithal to get it down, that steady hand.
~ James Kelman
People were not what they said. They were not what they thought. They were not what they promised. People were what they did. When the final tally was done, nothing else mattered.
~ James Lee Burke
Saint Augustine once admonished that we should never use the truth to injure. I believe there are dark and uncertain moments in our lives when it's not wrong for each of us to feel that he wrote those words especially for us.
~ James Lee Burke
People are what they do, not what they say, not what they think, not what they pretend to be.
~ James Lee Burke
I'm not telling the troot, no?
~ James Lee Burke
Straight shooters always win
~ James Lee Burke
PEOPLE ARE WHAT they do, not what they think, not what they say.
~ James Lee Burke
Pray that liars aren't kept a long time in purgatory
~ James Lee Burke
He has finally learned that lying to oneself is an offense for which human beings seldom grant themselves absolution. He comes to believe that acceptance of a wintry place in the soul and a refusal to speak about it to others is as much consolation as a man gets, and for some odd reason that thought seems to bring him peace.
~ James Lee Burke
I'm a Muun of my word
~ James Luceno
show my trust in others in order to build their trust in me.
~ James M. Kouzes
Only credibility earns commitment.
~ James M. Kouzes
Why would you want to follow someone if you suspected that they were lying or trying to trick you? Honesty is the basis of trust and you have to believe that what the leader speaks or knows is true." Of
~ James M. Kouzes
What you preach and what you celebrate must be one and the same. If they aren't, the event will come off as insincere and phony—and your credibility will suffer.
~ James M. Kouzes
Meaning what? We're going to pretend nothing's going on? That's stupid. The only way to deal with any of this is to get it out in the open. Have you been watching Oprah again?
~ James Patterson
Jeb: But I need to tell you something first. Max (thinking): That you are the devil incarnate?
~ James Patterson
Yes, I sounded like a pathetic weenie. I prefer to think of it as showing my softer side.
~ James Patterson
What is a lie? It's a distortion of reality, presented as reality.
~ James Patterson
What is a lie? It's a distortion of reality, presented as reality. We say it's a bad thing. We teach kids not to lie. We even put people in prison for lying. And yet there are lies all around us, and half the time we don't even really try to disguise it.
~ James Patterson
I'm not going to do anything," he insisted. "I would never do anything—I'm just not good at keeping what I feel to myself, Lindsay. I know you're with Joe. I get it. I just want you to know that I've got this arrow through my heart. And I would do anything for you." "Rich
~ James Patterson
What is a lie? It's a distortion of reality, presented as reality. We say it's a bad thing. We teach kids not to lie. We even put people in prison for lying. And yet there are lies all around us, and half the time we don't even really try to disguise it.
~ James Patterson
A COINCIDENCE in a police investigation is like an honest man in politics.
~ James Patterson
You have got to decide: either you die with Stuart or you go on living your life," John tells Astrid. "Be honest and decide. You can't just cry all the time, you've got to get on."16
~ James Patterson