Quotes About Honesty

It's the things no one sees that result in the things everyone wants.

YOU CANNOT CHANGE WHAT YOU DO NOT CONFRONT.

When I ask God to change my actions, that honesty about my own inconsistent behaviors forces me not to be so hard on other believers. Humble acknowledgment of the plank in my own eye gives me more patience with the specks in everyone else's (see Matthew 7:1-5). Instead of pointing the finger at others, let's allow God to examine us.

If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a friend anymore.

The second admission my young adult friends made is that they know their obsession is distracting them from God. Again, let me ask you to be honest. Do you think more about what God says in his Word or what people say on your feed? How much time do you think about God versus what to say online? Work hard to tell the truth. No matter how tempting it is to ignore him, if God is trying to get your attention, don't shake him off.

Accountability is not easy, and it doesn't come naturally. But in the long run it's incredibly necessary, and when you do it right, it's nothing but good.

Accountability requires the internal strength of honesty. We have to be strong enough to hear the honest questions and answer them honestly. We have to be strong enough to ask honest questions and hear honest answers, reacting appropriately and with grace and respect. Without honesty, there is no accountability, pure and simple.

accountability partner:

Some of us are not meant to cowboy-up

Never, but never, go sneaking around in your own house at odds with some stranger.

one client who went out of their way to regularly thank the team when they said 'no'—as this client had suffered the effects of wishful thinking all too often.

Anarchy does not simply mean no laws, it means no need for laws. Anarchy requires individuals to behave responsibly. When individuals can live in peace without authorities to compel or punish them, when people have enough courage and sense to speak honestly and equally with each other, then and only then, will anarchy be possible.

See, most people you meet, they'll talk to you through fifty layers of gauze and tinting. Sometimes you know they're lying even before they've started speaking. And it seems the older they get, the more brazen and desperate folks become, and they lie about things that don't even matter... I don't know. Maybe they just get so used to it they don't even notice. Maybe it's like a creeping curse and the more you do it, the easier it gets. What's amazing is that they think they're fooling anybody.

See, most people you meet, they'll talk to you through fifty layers of gauze and tinting. Sometimes you know they're lying even before they've started speaking. And it seems the older they get, the more brazen and desperate folks become, and they lie about things that don't even matter.

What you see is what you get.

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.

To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.

Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.

People say things all the time with the best of intentions but it's so easy not believe the words that come out of your own mouth.

Os pido que me excuseis, señor. No lo he hecho a propósito.

It takes a lot more energy to be covert and sneaky than it does to be open and honest.

A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth.

How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

You have to drag them into the light.