Quotes About Honesty

What it comes down to, I believe, is that mentoring often involves telling people what they need to hear, rather than what they want to hear. When you are able to be humbly honest with someone about a situation with which you have personal experience—even if you risk angering or hurting that person—you are offering the most valuable gift of all.

You can do more good by being good than any other way.

Never lie; never cheat; never steal. Don't whine; don't complain; don't make excuses.

Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody knows that but you.

Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.

Ethics and Attitude Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Character is what you really are. Reputation is what people say you are. Character is more important.

Don't lie, don't cheat, don't steal; never whine, never complain, never make excuses.

Never lie. Never cheat. Never steal.

Some people today may think these are naive or kind of corny. But think a moment about what they mean and who you become if you abide by them. That isn't naive. You don't become corny.

Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his life more true: To think without confusion clearly, To love his fellow-man sincerely, To act from honest motives purely, To trust in God and Heaven securely.

If we are not true to ourselves, we cannot be true to others—our wife or husband, our family, our profession and colleagues

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Character is what you really are. Reputation is what people say you are.

Brod's life was a slow realizaton that the world was not for her,and that for whatever reason,she would never be happy and honest at the same time.She felt as if she were brimming,always producing and hoarding more love inside her.But there was no release.

Truth, said the Master, cannot be hid But he didn't say slap it in the face of my kids.

A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.

because if there was one thing he didn't like it was big words, they just lied and covered things up, those big words, they didn't let what really was live and breathe but just carried it off into something that wanted to be big, that's what he thought...

...I believe that doubts, honestly expressed and wrestled with, produce a faith that is stronger and more intimate than doubts suppressed under the veneer of faith.

A faith so weak that it is not sufficient unto itself but requires that others tiptoe around it for fear of hurting it, knows deep down that it is a lie.

I trust people with my eyes and ears wide open.

We had given in to our vulnerability and cast down any pretenses that we were too strong to be weak.

There lives more faith in honest doubt Believe me than in half the creeds.

This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly.

In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family.

Bad news has never been broken gently in my family. Because, breaking it gently takes a few extra seconds. And who's got that kinda time? Hey, we maybe failures, but we are very busy.