Quotes About Honesty

We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.

If you love someone, tell them. For hearts are often broken by words left unspoken.

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

How would your life be different if you approached all relationships with authenticity and honesty? Let today be the day you dedicate yourself to building relationships on the solid foundation of truth and authenticity.

3 things I want in a relationship: Eyes that wont cry, lips than wont lie, and love that wont die.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity

Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you're in.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Why are men so secretive, why are they afraid of the truth, sometimes even of themselves?

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

The root of the matter? the thing I mean? is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

I am a big believer in the ''mirror test.'' All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Everyone wants to hear I Love You but what they want more is for it to be true when you say it

I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.

I'm your only one... but what you call monogamy is lying to everyone.

Christmas makes you want to be with people you love. I'm not saying this to hurt you, or because I want to leave you, because I don't. Meredith wasn't a fling. She wasn't revenge. I fell in love with her. That doesn't go away because I decided to stay with you.

I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.