Quotes About Honesty

Take the story of David. The way poor King Saul gets written about, it's like he's an idiot and a maniac, because you think, well, it was written by David's guys. But by the end, David looks more like the idiot and maniac, even though he's supposed to be the hero. Point: there comes a time in everyone's life when only the truth will do, and you have to look reality square in the eyes.

I should not have lied, but I did. Later, those lies came back to haunt me, bread cast on the water, tenfold.

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I completely trust Gloria Vanderbilt. I have always found her very honest.

Old saying, 'What goes around comes around.' You could have avoided ALL this turmoil IF YOU had only played fair.

The Constitution is like a "No Guns Zone" sign for conservatives, in that the only people it would bind are those who are already generally honest and peaceable. The ones who would lie or commit harm would simply look at the piece of paper and scoff. With unrelenting logic, Spooner dissects the sanctity of the Constitution and demonstrates that it cannot be said to have moral authority over anyone.

The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies they're scripted.

Making something secret makes it too important, elevates it to the point where it runs your life from the shadows. If you hide what's at your core from other people for too long, sooner or later you end up hiding it from yourself and waking up with no idea of who you are.

If people knew that I really am what I say I am,' he said, 'you know they'd never forgive me.' 'Don't worry,' I said, 'Your lack of a secret is safe with us.

There was no such thing as situational integrity.

Truth, like a little dog, will always find its way out into the street.

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are." ? John Wooden Quote

The subtlest lie of all is the full truth.

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

The important thing is to recognize our faults, avoid self-denial, and have the courage and self-sufficiency to make constant adjustments in our lives.

I am just a low, uncouth person. I'm a low-type sort of man." Some

The outcome is a result of the integrity of the process.

Leia, only weak leaders never admit to mistakes. Strong leaders don't need to pretend to be infallible.

Life is all about detecting and then avoiding bullshit.

I had never said, 'dad, I love you.'

The value of a secret depends upon whom you're trying to keep it from.

If I become the man you want, I wouldn't be the man I am.

Anyone who says honesty is the best policy is living in la-la land. Either that or they have never been married or had children. Parents lie to their kids all the time--about sex, drugs, death, and a hundred other things. We lie to those we love to protect their feelings. We lie because that's what love means, whereas unfettered honesty is cruel and the height of self-indulgence.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde