Quotes About Honesty

Lie is the beginning of man's journey towards corruption.

No freedom at all when we give birth to lie. No freedom at all when we hurt other persons' rights. No freedom at all when the leader listens to gossiping. At last, we cannot walk or work because we're free for nothing.

The most crime is; when a brave person hid to tell the Truth because many people will suffer most.

Your Words value you, and reveal your true character more than your personal name.

If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.

Present-day civilization is suffering from a lack of moral courage. So many people are in the inglorious business of keeping

My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.

As Benjamin Franklin is thought to have wisely advised, "Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

I will trust you until you give me a reason not to. Do I make myself clear?" And though my stomach tightens at the thought of all those Nickel Bay Bucks in my care, I meet his gaze and answer, "Crystal." "Good.

Was he a good father?" To their surprise, I shake my head and smile. "No," I reply candidly. "He wasn't a good father, but he was a good man." Where Dad came from, that meant a great deal more.

The truth is a hard mirror, and I am in no mood to look upon my reflection.

Ah, that touch of asperity! You are the only one of my acquaintance who is unafraid to spice your conversation with that particular pepper.

It was astonishing, I mused, how often people claimed to be honest when they were simply making a virtue of excessive rudeness.

She had stripped away her own illusions for him, and that was as seductive a thing as any woman could do.

Yes, the lad stole a fox pup but the Spartans had very strict rules against thievery. He hid the animal in his cloak, and rather than allow his misdeed to be found out, he let it gnaw out his vitals while he kept his silence." "And your point is?" he asked acidly. "Simply this: that truth is like that fox pup. If you suffer its ill effects in silence, it can do irreparable harm. Perhaps even kill you.

The Spartan boy and the fox?" "Yes, the lad stole a fox pup but the Spartans had very strict rules against thievery. He hid the animal in his cloak, and rather than allow his misdeed to be found out, he let it gnaw out his vitals while he kept his silence." "And your point is?" he asked acidly. "Simply this: that truth is like that fox pup. If you suffer its ill effects in silence, it can do irreparable harm. Perhaps even kill you.

Sometimes you have to call people out. Do that a time or two, and they learn pretty quickly how dangerous mirrors are. They rarely like seeing themselves.

I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.

I finally learned that it was all right to say something wasn't working for me when it wasn't working. The world doesn't come crashing down when you speak the truth.

At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel we can be honest about. We lie to ourselves or other people because the truth might require action on our part, and action requires courage. We say we "don't know" what is wrong, when we do know what is wrong; we just wish we didn't. Art lets us tell the truth, but even art can be something to hide behind.

You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say...Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.

I'd always thought telling the truth to other people was hard, but maybe that was a snap compared to telling the truth to yourself. Sometimes we just refused to know what we knew.

If your life truths have to be protected like some people keep their couches in plastic then ciao. have a nice life. if we bump into eachoter at Target, i'm the one buying the sour gummy worms and thats all you need to know about me.

You could care enough to keep a secret, but you could care enough to tell one, too.