Quotes About Honesty

Try holding yourself accountable to yourself. If you had to give yourself a daily, weekly, or monthly report, would you be proud to talk about what you had done, or would you need to be prettying up things, bullshitting, or lying to keep your job?

It didn't occur to me that I never named my own mystery illness the spring before (except to misdiagnose it to friends as mono), because I'd been afraid to admit, even to my mother, how much I'd wanted to lie down somewhere and hide. Black women, tall and strong as cypress trees, didn't pull that. Pain and shame and cowardice and fear had to be kept secret.

Cuando un hombre tiene que abusar de la mentira para cumplir con su deber puede estar seguro de que anda equivocado de verdad o de deber.

Because we all lie. Every one of us, and whoever claims they don't is the biggest liar of all.

People see what they want to see, or what they are told to see, and once that picture starts to fill your mind, logic starts bending things to fit. My job is to tell the truth, kultaseni. That is my belief with this newspaper of mine . . . that's why I started it.

The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run.

This is it. No more secrets. No more walls. The now is all we've got. I want truth. The whole truth. I'm no longer afraid of looking too deep. I'm ready no matter what I find.

The truth . . . sets you free." His breathing changes. He struggles to get his next words out. "It's . . . the secrets that fester. You . . . think you've buried them, gotten rid of them somehow, but they're like this damned cancer. The minute you're down, the second you grow tired, it starts to grow again,

He cleared his throat, "Zoe, i think you said you love me." "I did say it. I do love you with all my heart." "I see." There was a long pause, then he said, "For how long has this been going on?" "I don't know," she said, "Sometimes i think it started a long, long time ago." "You might have mentioned it." "I didn't want to encourage it," she said, "I thought it was a bad idea.

Women do not lie, my lord Dain," came a faintly accented voice from the door. "It merely seems so because they exist in another reality.

Don't judge your feelings; notice them. Use them as your map. Don't be afraid of the truth.

Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals. —Gretel Ehrlich

I think of a Flannery O'Connor quote: "The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

it's our honesty with ourselves that helps us make sense of our lives with all of their nuances and complexity. Repress those thoughts, and you'll likely behave "badly." Acknowledge them, and you'll grow.

In idiot compassion, you avoid rocking the boat to spare people's feelings, even though the boat needs rocking and your compassion ends up being more harmful than your honesty. People do this with teenagers, spouses, addicts, even themselves. Its opposite is wise compassion, which means caring about the person but also giving him

Until you tell me what's really on your mind, you'll stay stuck exactly where you are.

Its opposite is wise compassion, which means caring about the person but also giving him or her a loving truth bomb when needed.

In idiot compassion, you avoid rocking the boat to spare people's feelings, even though the boat needs rocking and your compassion ends up being more harmful than your honesty.

I think of a Flannery O'Connor quote: "The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it." What

They wish they could stay longer but don't know how to say this directly. Acknowledging their attachment makes them feel too vulnerable.

Cuando caes en la compasión del idiota, evitas agitar las aguas para no lastimar a otra persona, aunque las aguas necesiten ser agitadas y tu compasión acabe resultando más perjudicial que tu sinceridad.

Olakšanje je izgovoriti istinu i zbog toga biti voljen, a ne prezren.

After all, as the old Scot saying went, there wasn't much guile in a heart that was singing.

Maybe secrets are only told when you're trying to protect the real truth from coming out.