Quotes About Honesty

Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there's no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he's lying, and you're being taken.

Unfortunately, the worst part of a product/service is the seller.

LESS fabrication, MORE facilitation

Be honest. Be truthful. If you tell lies, you lose your credibility.

During the first few minutes of your presentation, your job is to assure the audience members that you are not going to waste their time and attention.

Always do what is right with the customer. What you sow now, you will harvest later.

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear but the honest man who does not know what he is doing.

If you can't admit a failure, you're not an entrepreneur. You are not a good business person. There's nothing brilliant about what you are doing.

Don't ever break someone's trust. Once you do, then nobody wants to do business with you.

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

Before I came out, I had a lot of anger. For years people would ask, 'How are you doing?' and I'd say, 'Good, fine.' It's show business, and that's what you have to show.

News is not a game show. You don't win a car if you happen to be right.

I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal.

It is never right to do wrong in order to get a chance to do right.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Although it is embarassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that you're sneaky, all the ways hat you hide out, all the ways that you shut down, deny, close off, criticize people, all your weird little ways.

My experience is that by practicing without shoulds, we gradually discover our wakefulness and our confidence. Gradually, without any agenda except to be honest and kind, we assume responsibility for being here in this unpredictable world, in this unique moment, in this precious human body.

How honest do we want to be with ourselves?

In cultivating loving-kindness, we learn first to be honest, loving, and compassionate toward ourselves.

When you come to have this kind of honesty, gentleness, and good-heartedness, combined with clarity about yourself, there's no obstacle to feeling loving-kindness for others as well.

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.

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. When you exchange yourself for others in the practice of tonglen, it becomes increasingly uncertain what is out there and what is in

Of the two witnesses, hold the principal one" might arise. Of the two witnesses—self and other—we're the only one who knows the full truth about ourselves.