Quotes About Honesty

Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.

Honest people know that the road to success and virtue always involves shared sacrifice, hard work, and gratification postponed. Telling people otherwise isn't leadership, it is pandering.

I get that some people just want to do work and keep their lives private. I think for me, it just felt like I needed to be open about who I am. It just felt like the right thing for me to do.

You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.

Never work for money or power, be honest, don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for, [and] always finish what you start.

There are words that work, that are meant to explain and educate on policies that work, on products that work, on services that work. I'm not going to ever try to sell a lemon. I don't do that.

People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don't like in others.

I know that the emotional narrative will work in the end, and I just have to play each moment honestly even if the getting from A to B doesn't totally make sense initially.

I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work.

It is easy to fool yourself. It is possible to fool the people you work for. It is more difficult to fool the people you work with. But it is almost impossible to fool the people who work under you.

Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says?

Honest work deserves honest pay.

O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of his own self-redemption.

I think it's difficult to be honest about certain aspects of my work without acknowledging that I have experienced or felt or questioned certain of the themes in the books.

The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've never fabricated or plagiarized a story. People who know me know I didn't do this.

I think my family love each other so much and expect so much from each other, and I think we expect a type of honesty in the work that we all do.

I only work with people I trust and respect.

The worst thing is to be a designer and create work that isn't honest. You have to be honest. Otherwise, you'll always be a reaction to what other people do and you'll always be one step behind.

One thing I want to make clear: You never want to hide from your debts. It doesn't work.

I've been married twice and I've tried to make it work, but I feel I haven't had a real marriage yet.

But being honest in my work and life has kind of set me free. I'm so much more than my pain. Oh my god, I sound like my therapist! Call her, she can vouch that I'm doing great.

I think a show can work anywhere if it's done honestly, with integrity, and with confidence.

Rather than dispute their shortcomings or hide their mistakes, resilient people are authentic. Their humble, self-aware approach assists them in developing strategies to become better.

Those who know me are aware that I stand by my mistakes or non-working strategies.