Quotes About Honesty

We are what we pretend to be so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

The thing that I really want to try and do is just live my life really openly and honestly. I think there's so much power in that, as simple as it is.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

Character - not wealth, power, or position - is the supreme word.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

There is a comfort in knowing that you don't have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal.

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Lead your life so you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

I gave people who didn't know what to say the best advice I could muster, which was that it was better to say anything rather than pretend that nothing was wrong. My hunch was that Mom would simply appreciate knowing that people were thinking of her.

I gave people who didn't know what to say the best advice I could muster, which was that it was better to say anything rather than pretend that nothing was wrong.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

I've been able to classify most of their responses into ten emotional needs—admiration, affection, conversation, domestic support, family commitment, financial support, honesty and openness, physical attractiveness, recreational companionship, and sexual fulfillment.

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

Cousy quickly learned that the pressure to win as a player as opposed to the pressure to win as a coach was vastly different. The pressure to win as a coach was filled with conflicting demands, to be honest with your players while being honest with the fans, management, and the games' governing body. Success as a coach had a lot to do with relationships and keeping everybody happy and to do that which sometimes caused you to compromise your values.

when someone says he wants to be perfectly straightforward with us, we should be on the lookout for a concealed dagger.

it is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in the other case while alive.