Quotes About Honesty

Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.

I don't always know how to communicate. I think I get a bit unfiltered and a bit strange to people.

Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.

With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person.

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

I'll be honest with you: not a chance in this world. But you know, stranger things have happened.

I'll talk to any stranger about everything. I'm not guarded.

Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.

and a day spent working for money is wasted while a day spent writing poetry is wasted but more honest.

you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote. Send guys to war, they come home talking dirty.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." ~ John F. Kennedy

Si te liberas de esa compulsión, pensó Paul de pronto, si escapas de esa necesidad de engatusar y convencer y seducir, lo que quede después serás tú, tu verdadero ser.

The majority have no right to do wrong.

You don't ever know what anyone's really like,' I said 'Cause you do.' 'How?' 'They tell you; you tell them.' 'That's assuming you're honest. What if you lie?' 'Why would you want to lie?

Life can be complicated; the truth is not.

Winners don't fear reality, they don't hide from the truth, and they're not afraid to confront their own flaws and weaknesses.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot."77

He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in its performance.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

Your subconscious will always remember if you kept your word, and because your self-image is important, that's one audience you need to satisfy.

Because trust earned by action is always better than words.

Sometimes you have to choose between honesty and kindness, and I've always been a sucker for the kind side.

If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth.