Quotes About Honesty

Asking about the childhood is asking for the truth.

He and the Gift-giver are the only ones I can truly trust.

Revolution is bloody, yet better still than living in a land of lies.

The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

Make fair agreements and stick to them.

Straightforwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

First and foremost he must learn to be faithful to his superiors, to keep promises, to refuse the friendship of all who are not like him. And if he finds he has made a mistake, then he must not be afraid of admitting the fact and amending his ways.

The object of the superior man is truth.

He does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

You cannot deceive the mirror

Objectivity has about as much substance as the emperor's new clothes.

Sam hesitated. "He's a nice man, Mom." "Sounds like maybe you think Carson Marino is more than just nice." For the second time in one day, Sam surprised herself. No denial, no changing the subject. "Well, mom," she said, "What if I do?" "I'm 56 years old, Sam," Ellie said. "I'll take any color of grandchild I can get.

Remember, "being earnest" does not mean mimicking Hemingway.

Ernest Hemingway once advised prose artists to 'Write hard and clear about what hurts.

Finally, don't be fooled by words like orientate or commentate, misguided back-formations from orientation and commentator; orient and comment do the job just fine. Don't use big words to gloss over the truth or to pump air into ideas.

Ernest Hemingway once advised prose artists to "Write hard and clear about what hurts." It's good advice. But to follow it, you must stop reading.

Truth in art is truth in circumstances.

Men and women can have a platonic relationship and not make their spouses worry. It is when calls and meetings become secret that we need to start worrying if they are being true to us.