Quotes About Honesty

A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance; its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.

She wanted to be loved. But she deserved a relationship based on honesty, respect and consideration. Mazy was no longer willing to accept any romance that was not a pairing of equals.

I know I ain't smart, Miss Althea. I don't pretend to be. It's something a feller can't lie about. But I can get you game. I can keep ups this farm. And I care about your boy. I care about him a lot. But I'd never get between the two of you. Miss Althea, if you'll marry up with me, I promise to listen to you in the things I don't know about. Work for you 'til my back is broke and my fingers is down to the bone. And love and care for you until the day I die.

It's not right to spend money you don't have to perpetuate a lie about who you are.

Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.

Pankaj Mishra (#iampm)

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Secrets are corrosive. Secrets destroy anything you try to layer over them. It's like using concealer to cover a black eye. You can hide it, but that's not the same as healing.

every journey, honestly undertaken, stands a chance of taking us toward the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need.

Some journeys are direct, and some are circuitous; some are heroic, and some are fearful and muddled. But every journey, honestly undertaken, stands a chance of taking us toward the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need.

A fault line runs down the middle of my life, and whenever it cracks open-divorcing my words and actions from the truth I hold within-things around me get shaky and start to fall apart.

Each time I walk into a classroom, I can choose the place within myself from which my teaching will come, just as I can choose the place within my students toward which my teaching will be aimed. I need not teach from a fearful place: I can teach from my curiosity or hope or empathy or honesty, places that are as real within me as are my fears. I can have fear, but I need not be fear - if I am willing to stand somewhere else in my inner landscape.

This was a step into darkness that I had been trying to avoid—the darkness of seeing myself more honestly than I really wanted to.

If we are unfaithful to true self, we will extract a price from others. We will make promises we cannot keep, build houses from flimsy stuff, conjure dreams that devolve into nightmares, and other people will suffer - if we are unfaithful to true self.

eis a verdade: ninguém mente inteiramente ao mentir.

Because if you didn't speak your truth, there was always something that would speak it for you that much louder.

if you didn't speak your truth, there was always something that would speak it for you that much louder.

The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.

Stop trying to trust people you already know you can't trust!

I've learned to write the truth. But to do that, I had to figure out what the truth was-and I had to realize that the truth isn't always the same for everyone. I had to realize that my truth may not be the same as your truth.

Putting words onto paper—when it is done as an honest act of search or connection, rather than as an act of manipulation, performance, self-aggrandizement or self-protection—is a holy act.

Something in me that was broken, cracked—becomes whole. The cracks, if I write them with utter honesty, are where "the light gets in." The present meets the past, and healing begins.

The issue for me, both as a writer and as a spiritual seeker, is courage—the courage to be there myself, and the courage to allow the reader to be there—to see, to touch, to taste, to smell,

All you have to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you will find people who are eager to fill your head with information." WALT DISNEY