Quotes About Honesty

Promises and pie-crusts are made to be broken.

You and I ought not to die,before we have explained ourselves to each other.

You can't be a part-time man of principle.

People are more slothful than timid. Their greatest fear is the heavy burden that uncompromising honesty and nakedness of speech and action would lay on them.

Sincerity is only as good as what we are sincere about.

The world has millions of records on people who badly wounded and hurt their friends, people who didn't value the intrinsic value of man, don't come and add up to this. Be a true friend others could count on.

True friendship is premised on a strong character.

Every friendship has its own standards.

Every friendship has its own protocols.

All friends are not the same. We have true friends and we have fake friends. Which one are you? Which one do you have?

We are only as sick as our secrets. The

Yes, Lord, I don't ever again want to have to hide from you. Thank you for inviting me to come before you, sins and all, and ask for forgiveness. In Jesus' name, Amen.

I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.

Encline aux vérités qui tuent, elle n'avait nulle intention de blesser.

To do the worst thing, the very worst thing, that's the way to be free. I would never again need to pretend to myself to be what I was not.

It is much better to tell the truth than to compromise truth and have someone believe a lie. It is far better they hear the truth now than that they believe they can keep other idols in their life—and then one day, when it's too late, shockingly hear the Master say, "Depart; I never knew you, you who were deceived!

The truth is we are defined by our actions, not by our intentions.

A minister or a Christian is what he lives, not what he preaches.

True love doesn't flatter; it's truthful.

Who's the truth good for anyway but the guilty?

As a runner, you have to face the truth about yourself on a regular basis, and it makes you more honest. You can't pretend to be faster than you are. You can't pretend that you are better prepared than you are. You cannot pretend to be a runner, you actually have to run.

If a man asks me for my loyalty...I will give him my honesty. If a man asks me for my honesty...I will give him my loyalty!

I had never considered myself to be a dishonest person, hating the idea that I was capable of such mendacity and deceit, but the more I examined the architecture of my life, the more I realized how fraudulent were its foundations. The belief that I would spend the rest of my time on earth lying to people weighed heavily on me and at such times I gave serious consideration to taking my own life.

I had told the truth, or a version of it, anyway.