Quotes About Honesty

It's better to know the truth and suffer the consequences than live in the lie.

In order to believe someone, you need to trust them.

Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.

Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears

I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth, and it spreads out from the page into all of our life, and it should

When I teach a class, I want the students to be "writing down the bones," the essential, awake speech of their minds. But I also know I can't just say, "Okay, write clearly and with great honesty." In class we try different techniques or methods. Eventually, the students hit the mark, come home to what they need to say and how they need to say it.

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

That's the biggest problem with personas. A false self can never rest. It looks like a real person, but a persona is actually just a hologram, a projected image, and it requires constant energy to keep that image up. A persona is afraid to go to sleep, because to sleep is to die.

Let's face it: the reason many guys have stopped telling the truth in church is because most churches actively discourage truthfulness. Even in Christian men's groups, the cost of candor is usually painfully high, the punitive response to it swift and decisive.

We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.

Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.

Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.

It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, often you do so for people you do not even like or respect.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.