Quotes About Honesty

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

Authentic gratitude is much more rare and precious than expressions of gratitude which are often empty courtesies or simply tactical ploys to encourage further gifts or kindnesses.

We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any.

We need to teach our youth American values, kindness, honesty,respect.

It is better to act right than seek right.

When people don't respect one another seldom is there honesty.

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

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

Vivir en el engaño o ser engañado es fácil'

Es lo malo de dejar que la gente hable y se explique y por eso trata de impedirse tantas veces, para conservar las certezas y no dar cabida a las dudas, es decir, a la mentira. O es decir, a la verdad.

Hay algo vil, hay algo sucio en hacerse pasar por quien no se es, en conducirse taimadamente, en ganarse la confianza de otro tan sólo para traicionarla, aunque ese otro sea un malvado, un enemigo, un asesino.

Y es que cuando se quiere a alguien los celos vienen incluidos. Quién no cela no ama y el que diga lo contrario miente. Miente y no ama.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Never do anything in secret or anything that you would wish to hide. For the desire to hide anything means that you are afraid, and fear is a bad thing and unworthy of you. Be brave, and all the rest follows.

The people who avoid communicating their emotions are the very people we need to avoid.

I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well.

That's what I love about the short story. You are naked on the page. There is nowhere to hide.

Instead of these mild, oblique approaches, we must learn, in such cases, to be irenically direct.

Charlotte never lied to others, so she made the classic mistake of the habitually honest—she assumed that other people did not lie to her, at least not to her face. In her world, people were innocent of deliberate deceit until proven otherwise, which was, of course, way too late. Even

You and I certainly had out issues, Cooper. But I never, for a moment, doubted that you could be trusted. My father told me once that your word was good amber. I have no reason to believe otherwise.

Have you noticed that life, real honest-to-goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in the newspapers?