Quotes About Honesty

That high-minded type can always find an excuse for breaking his own rules. I'd rather do business with an everyday sinner who thinks it's probably to his advantage, in the long run, to tell the truth and keep his promises.

Recklessly, he decided to tell the real truth. "Because it will be beautiful," he said.

iba camino de correr la misma suerte. Y, de repente, alguien tenía las agallas de decirlo.

Nunca he confiado en los que proclaman su honestidad desde el púlpito de una iglesia —fue la respuesta de Edmund—. Ese tipo de personas con tan alto concepto de sí mismas siempre encuentran una excusa para violar sus propias reglas. Prefiero tener tratos con pecadores normales y corrientes; ésos al menos creen que al final les es más provechoso decir la verdad y cumplir sus promesas. Y es algo sobre lo que no suelen cambiar de opinión.

When the general staff closed their eyes to bad news, men died.

My father hated people who preached about morality. We're all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn't count. It's when you want so badly to do something wrong—when you're about to make a fortune from a dishonest deal, or kiss the lovely lips of your neighbor's wife, or tell a lie to get yourself out of terrible trouble—that's when you need the rules. Your integrity is like a sword, he would say: you shouldn't wave it until you're about to put it to the test.

Creo que lo que hago se convierte en parte de mí, cuando soy valiente y fuerte, y cuidando de los niños, los enfermos y los pobres me convierto en mejor persona. Y cuando soy cruel, o cobarde o cuento mentiras, me convierto en alguien menos digno y no puedo respetarme a mí misma. Ésa es la retribución divina en la que creo.

În lumea regilor È™i a curtenilor, nimeni nu spunea tot adev?rul, întotdeauna.

Newspapers are supposed to tell the truth!"Woody said, his voice rising with furious indignation. "They can't just make up lies!""Yes, they can,"she said. "But it's not fair!""Welcome to the real world,"said his mother.

I could now (possibly) go back and restretch those shrunken hours, flake the images separate, arrange them in accurate chronological order, (possibly; with will-power, patience, and the proper chemicals) but being accurate is not necessarily being honest.... Nor is chronological reporting by any means always the most truthful (each camera has its own veracity) especially when, in all good faith, one cannot truthfully claim to remember what happened accurately....

It's the truth. Even if it didn't happen.

But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.

But it's the truth even if it didn't happen

Because the amazing fact is that truth alone will not set you free. Truthfulness will set you free.

Doing the right thing has power.

Speak truth to power.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

Hiding our true thoughts and feelings is just one example of how we give our power away.

Strip is the power. I'm ready to strip... I think everyone is. In that I'm saying I think everyone is ready to take off masks and pretentious costumes that don't represent who they truly are.

Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.

Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words that pierce mankind to the quick, is to speak and write honestly.

But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit.

If people stop having secrets they stop having power.