Quotes About Honesty

Don't say maybe if you want to say no.

Switzerland is one of the few countries in the world where a man's word is still his bond.

Má»™t vài cu?n sách khi?n chúng ta mÆ¡ má»™ng , má»™t s? khác buá»™c chúng ta ??i m?t vá»›i thá»±c t?, nhÆ°ng Ä'i?u có ý nghÄ©a nh?t ??i vá»›i má»™t nhà v?n Ä'ó là sá»± trung thá»±c, chân thành và cùng vá»›i sá»± chân thành ?y h? vi?t nên cu?n sách c?a mình.

Blessed are those who are not afraid to admit that they don't know something

Because a lie can never make you stronger, no matter how many times you tell it.

The lie deceives no one so much as the one who tells it.

Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean.

The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.

What you do for yourself, any gesture of kindness, any gesture of gentleness, any gesture of honesty and clear seeing toward yourself, will affect how you experience your world. In fact, it will transform how you experience the world. What you do for yourself, you're doing for others, and what you do for others, you're doing for yourself.

You come back to that breath over and over, through boredom, edginess, fear, and well-being. This perseverance and repetition—when done with honesty, a light touch, humor, and kindness—is its own reward.

Even though there are so many teachings, so many meditations, so many instructions, the basic point of it all is just to learn to be extremely honest and also wholehearted about what exists in your mind - thoughts, emotions bodily sensations, the whole thing that adds up to what we call me or I.

The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are right now, and that's what we can make friends with and celebrate.

Honestly, that is the best advice for life: no note cards.

It's painful to face how we harm others, and it takes a while. It's a journey that happens because of our commitment to gentleness and honesty, our commitment to staying awake, to being mindful. Because of mindfulness, we see our desires and our aggression, our jealousy and our ignorance. We don't act on them; we just see them. Without mindfulness

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

This meditation is called nontheistic, which doesn't have anything to do with believing in God or not believing in God, but means that nobody but yourself can tell you what to accept and what to reject. The practice of meditation helps us to get to know this basic energy really well, with tremendous honesty and warmheartedness, and we begin to figure out for ourselves what is poison and what is medicin, which means something different for each of us.

As long as we don't want to be honest and kind with ourselves, then we are always going to be infants. When we begin just to try to accept ourselves, the ancient burden of self-importance lightens up considerably. Finally there's room for genuine inquisitiveness, and we find we have an appetite for what's out there.

The idea isn't to try to get rid of your anger, but to make friends with it, to see it clearly with precision and honesty, and also to see it with gentleness.

But honesty without kindness makes us feel grim and mean

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

If you have to shout to prove your point, you're probably wrong.

Brastias. My friend." Uh-oh, this couldn't be good. "Do you lie to me?""Uh . . . no.""See? That's a lie!

An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear.

Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility.