Quotes About Honesty

The truth hurts only if you're comforted by lies.

Why can't we talk about what we think instead of just all the stupid shit we've done?

In fact, he talked about his painful and insidious cancer so plainly and without affect that to this day, I consider matter-of-factness a form of courage.

Words and emotions are simple currencies. If we inflate them, they lose their value

What I discovered is that when God took the anger out of my heart, He also took the fear. I know that telling the truth makes enemies, but my message is right and just, and I have no desire to modify it to please others.

Finn is God: If you get off your high horse, you'll notice that it, too, poops.

It wasn't me?" I snap. "That's got to be the goddamn dumbest thing you've ever said to me. You're way too smart to say something like that. Don't be such an asshole." "Okay, yes. It was you." "Awesome. That's great to hear.

Hiding the truth will only cripple your emotional development.

Justin… I know that we do not care for clichés, but this is a rather large can of worms that you are attempting to pry open using a rusty can opener." "Like one of those old creaky ones you'd find in a summer rental home? With the super skinny handles that hurt?" Celeste laughed. "Yes. Like that." "I like worms. You can let the worms out. But only if you want. I won't make you talk about anything you don't want to.

When boundaries fall and truths come out, it can bring a closeness that is unshakable.

Sometimes we are all so afraid to be honest with ourselves because we know that honesty will lead to somewhere." I wrote this ten years ago. "Can fear walk us to something better?

If you love somebody; You better let it out; Don't hold it back; While you're trying to figure it out; Cause the only real pain a heart can ever know; Is the sorrow of regret; When you don't let your feelings show. So, did you say it, Did you mean it?

Words can be said easily, but one can't fake actions.

Audiences don't care if you sing correctly. They care if they feel something. If they don't, they forget you. Emotional honesty creates loyalty and a lifelong connection above all else.

Did you have to try for a while?" He thought it a bold question, coming from a stranger. But he was honest with her, his thoughts still loose from the spiked lemonade. "Would you believe, with Maya it happened the first time," he said. He remembered how proud he'd felt, how powerful. The first time in his life he'd had sex without contraception a life had begun.

I'm not really interested in being king. I prefer to work for a living

Although to be fair, cherry picking isn't quite what we do. Cherries are sweet and delicious. What we do is more turd mining. And I'll thank you to give our work the respect it deserves!

I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.

The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.

You can't make a representation and then claim you didn't make it. You know, it just shouldn't work that way.

Most senators are just going to work and trying to do a job.

My dad is such a good man, hard-working.

Pickup lines are a major turn-off, they don't work on me and I tune them out. It's better to just be honest.