Quotes About Honesty

You never have to apologize for the thing you don't say.

'Truth Will Set U Free' is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination.

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated." (on the art of public speaking)

To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.

Recalling and confessing our sin is like taking out the garbage: once is not enough.

It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth

You haven't any right to expect your friends to be larger than yourself, larger than life. Just take them as they are, cut down to average size, and be glad you have them. To drink with, laugh with, borrow money from, lend money to, stay away from their special girls as you want them to stay away from yours, and above all, never break your word to, once it's been given. And that is all the obligation you have, all you have the right to expect. ("New York Blues")

I wasn't that good you know. What I was was a guy who could write a little, publishing in magazines surrounded by people who couldn't write at all. So I looked pretty good. But I never thought I was that good at all. All that I thought was that I tried to tell the truth.

How do you go about finding out who the best-loved woman in a guy's life is? Ask him?

Beware the flatterer: he feeds you with an empty spoon.

I am not here to make you feel better, I am just here to make you feel worse

Please, Lauren," Will said. "You know you're not the kind of girl you date." "Ouch." He leveled her gaze. "You're the kind of girl you marry.

Replacing the girl reading the book on the porch was this beautiful, closed-off, honest, waiting-to-be-cracked open woman who challenged his contentment simply by living her life. He didn't want to be challenged. He was just fine with the status quo. Why did she have to go around inspiring him? It was not what he'd signed up for.

No boyfriend?" he asked. "Nope," she said. "I don't mind being alone." But the words didn't ring true. She added, quietly, "People just can't be trusted.

Honestly, my dear, I find myself struggling to care.

If you can't trust, you can't be trustworthy.

People who always want what they refuse to earn, eventually get what they deserve.

If someone has been trying to show you something about yourself and you continue to fight it, maybe it's time to acknowledge that you might be deceived.

Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to lose their respect.

Jesus never criticized prayers that were honest, only those that were long and showy.

It's easy to impress people with our strengths, but real connections are forged through our shared weaknesses.