Quotes About Honesty

This is a work of nonfiction.

As Dave Cooper says, I screwed that up are the most important words any leader can say.

Tis very strange Men should be so fond of being thought more wicked than they are.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

May we generally be happy, generally be witty, generally be honest, but above all always be interesting.

Te voy a explicar por qué rompimos, Ed. Te voy a contar en esta carta toda la verdad de por qué sucedió. Y la maldita verdad es que te quise demasiado.

The last time we were here," I said, "I told you I liked you. I should have trusted myself to say I love you.

When he admitted this to me, I found myself almost annoyed. It was as if he'd hidden this part of himself in order to deceive me, pretending-- as do many people I've discovered--to be what he is not. No one I've ever known is what he appears to be on the surface.

it doesn't make any difference. Whether we're being lied to or not, we still have to get up and go to work and pay the bills and all the rest.

I don't mind if the couple next to me is tense or the kids are whiny. I'd even be happy to hear an honest argument, evidence of thinking. I'd like to know these teeth-perfect families don't just buy each other stuff but just occasionally can talk to one another.

I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of came to a revelation that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and let that person – this woman who has lived inside me for my entire life – finally have an opportunity to live.

I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

"Who lends his money without usury and does not accept a bribe against the innocent,"

Self denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

Better an honest enemy than a false friend.

Defensiveness often reveals an area of our lives where we're in denial.

True enemies are better than false friends.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth.

Friendship is not about people who act true to your face. It's about people who remain true behind your back.

I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.