Quotes About Honesty

He didn't want to play football. He wanted to be told the truth.

Honestly, Ignac, I look back at my life and I don't understand very much of it. It seems like it would have been so simple now to have been honest with everyone, especially Julian.

What I would not have given to be that young at this time and to be able to experience such unashamed honesty.

Não", disse Bruno rapidamente, pois sempre tentava ser honesto e sabia que, se hesitasse mesmo que por um momento, não teria mais coragem de dizer o que pensava.

committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality.

It is some bit of my father I keep not seeing. I cannot remember years of my childhood. Some parts of me I cannot find now.… Is there enough left of me now to be honest?…

With a false self, intimacy is impossible.

We are all, even the best of us, egoists and self-deceivers, and without a little comfortable make-believe to clothe us we should freeze in the outer winds.

We are all, even the best of us, egotists and self-deceivers, and without a little comfortable make-believe to clothe us we should freeze in the outer winds.

He had just the same narrow head, and stubborn mouth, and honest, quick-tempered eyes. It is the type that makes dashing regimental officers, and earns V.C.'s, and gets done in wholesale. I was never that kind. I belonged to the school of the cunning cowards.

all the little rags of honest impulse and stumbling kindness with which we try to shelter ourselves from the winds of space.

The bothersome noise of religious talk grows irksome when laid upon the living score of discordant behavior. Talkative's

Better, though difficult, the right way to go. Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.

Now I was, as they said, become godly; now I was become a right honest man.  But oh! when I understood these were their words and opinions of me, it pleased me mighty well.  For, though as yet I was nothing but a poor painted hypocrite, yet, I loved to be talked of as one that was truly godly. 

A man who flatterers his neighbor, spreads a net for his feet

Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.

Never "for the sake of peace and quiet" deny your own experience or convictions. —Dag Statesman and Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities he does not possess.

Followers tell you what you want to hear. Leaders tell you what you need to hear.

Believe in what you say. Then, live what you say. There is no greater credibility than conviction in action.

La humildad no es negar sus fortalezas. La humildad es ser sincero acerca de sus debilidades". —Rick Warren

What you are speaks so loudly that I can't hear what you say." —RALPH WALDO EMERSON

And you will have greater credibility with your leader if you admit your shortcomings and refrain from making excuses.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful.