Quotes About Honesty

I simply described him in accurate terms. If he finds himself insulted by the truth, it's hardly my concern." A

It's only cheating if he gets caught.

But feeling true isn't the same as being true. In fact, feelings don't have very much to do with the truth at all.

It is good that we cleared the air. Is there anything else you want to say?" I eyed the man and said, "You went blond. It makes you look sort of gay.

I want answers. I want the truth." "It will hurt," he said. "The truth does that sometimes. I don't care.

I'm not sure it's possible to manipulate someone with candor and truth. I think you call that enlightenment.

Generally, honesty is conveyed to our kids through our actions, not our commands. We need to step back and analyze the model we are presenting to our kids.

Whatever is true about your heart will show up in your actions.

Tell your parents the truth. A knot of fear settled in Ford's stomach. Tell them about you, you mean. That's one way to do it. But what if things don't work out for you and me? Dan blew out breath impatiently. So? You're still going to be gay, aren't you? I'm not gay. I never said that. Well, you may not be, but you sure fooled me a couple of times.

I don't want to get married or run away. I want my free will. I just want to love someone and not get fucked over.

Sitting there on the deck during intermittent periods of dozing I thought that it's really hard on a soul to admit how much of life we have spent being full of shit.

I just now know that you can only meet a man at the level of his intentions.

That's what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending- performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act

I like a man who wears his soul on his face.

Clinton sighed, and gave up. All his life he had given up. He didn't know why it was like that; why a man who wanted nothing but to live honestly and industriously and usefully - who, briefly, asked only the privileges of giving and helping - had had to compromise and surrender at every turn. But that was the way it had been, and that apparently was the way it was to be.

Truth without love is like surgery without anesthesia. Love without truth is like a cheerleader without a team. But truth in love is medicine. It is meaningful, and it is the only way communication can be effective and cause growth in relationships.

Defensiveness shuts down honesty and keeps truth from being expressed.

need to say something like this to our spouses if there is going to be a genuine atmosphere of truth and openness: "Honey, I want to be the best spouse I can be, and I want our marriage to grow. I want you to know that if there is anything I'm doing or not doing that is bothering you, I want you to share it with me. I may not agree with everything you say, but I will validate it, and we will talk things out.

O amor só mente para dizer maior verdade.

I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.

You see the point. I want to tell you the truth, and already I have told you about the wide rivers.

How it felt to me: that is getting closer to the truth about a notebook.

It's easy to blame someone else for our failings...

herself that he was not just trying to please