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Quotes About Honesty

It's a simple truth that a secret is something you're ashamed of.
~ Deb Caletti
What is uneasy when you are awake in the daylight is terror in the dark honesty of your dreams.
~ Deb Caletti
So if your life truths have to be protected the same way some people keep their couches in plastic, then ciao. Have a nice life. If we bump into each other at Target, I'm the one buying the sour gummy worms, and that's all you need to know about me.
~ Deb Caletti
Your only job—and it's a big one—is to try to speak and live your own honest truth. That truth might shift. You might need more time to even understand what that truth is. That's it. That's the job. Trying to manage or control everyone else? Not the job. Impossible, besides.
~ Deb Caletti
We forget that just because something is honest it is not necessary the truth.
~ Deb Caletti
Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he'd said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.
~ Deb Caletti
We forget that just because something is honest it is not necessarily the truth.
~ Deb Caletti
A secret," he said. "A secret is the heaviest thing in the world.
~ Deb Caletti
One thing you can say about daughters and mothers—like it or not, they know the truth about each other.
~ Deb Caletti
The truest thing about truth was that it needed to be seen no matter what it was and no matter how it came to you.
~ Deb Caletti
Who's crazier, anyway: people who struggle honestly, or the people who act like they never do?
~ Deb Caletti
Secrets have a shelf life.
~ Deb Caletti
Feminism was supposed to chase away all of those embarrassing vulnerabilities. At least, you were supposed to be aware that acting helpless was something shameful. So was the tendency to hide your own fear behind the toughness of bad boys, if you had that. I had that. I'm being honest here. The
~ Deb Caletti
And right then I learn something very simple and fundamental about love. That it is there or it is not there. That some of our biggest troubles probably come when we try to convince ourselves it is there when it isn't, or that it isn't there when it is.
~ Deb Caletti
Never ask questions you don't want the answer to.
~ Pantea Konn
Be what you are.
~ Henry P. Mahone
Everyone has scars. Cowards conceal them. The brave reveal them.
~ A.D. Posey
We all just need to be real. That is what will save us.
~ A.D. Posey
Do not be devilish.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I ain't got no Visa, I ain't got no Red American Express, We can't go nowhere exotic, It don't matter 'cause I'm decent and Loyal.
~ Genereux Philip
Just take this as a warning. Know that there's always a price for not being yourself.
~ Benilde Little, Acting Out
The person you can most easily mislead is yourself.
~ Anonymous
Do what is right for the right reasons.
~ L.M. Fields
Character is how you treat people who can't do anything for you in return.Integrity is how you act when you think nobody is looking.
~ Thea Nishimori