Quotes About Honesty

What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?

What I'm bringing to the pop table is that I'm not pretentious.

When you bring the darkness to the table, it doesn't rule you or hurt other people, but when we keep it secret, it's dangerous.

As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.

I wish that sometimes there is a little more honesty and that you can discuss things openly. There should not be taboo subjects.

Being in the public eye makes you frightened to talk openly about things - which is precisely why you should. You can really make a difference and open up subjects that are taboo.

This is bad for policy-making - if you cover up the problems, how can you solve them? It also corrodes public trust. Government must be much more honest about the challenges facing the country, if we are to begin to tackle them. Short-term spin must give way to proper long-term strategic thinking.

Would I - or any defender - tell the referee to give a penalty if I made a foul in the box but it was deemed a fair tackle? No chance.

The first principle of tackling corruption is that you do not engage in it and you have the will to confront it.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.

I have the necessary lack of tact.

If I had a crush on a guy, my tactic was to tell them I had a crush on them. And they always thought it was super-cute, so it usually worked in my favor!

The John McCain tactic of praising Obama as a great American and great senator 'with whom I disagree' is a loser. You've got to call him out as what he is - a fraud and a disaster.

I'm a clean boxer. You don't have to worry about any dirty tactics.

It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

In order for people to take what you say seriously, they have to know who you are as a person.

I'm not the type of person that could take someone else's funds and take a chance with them.

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

You have one heart, and once you give it away, it's gone. If you wear it on your sleeve, a lot of people are there to take advantage of it.

When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.