Quotes About Honesty

Lying makes a probem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

when you tell the truth your problems become part of your past, but when you lie they become part of your future.

THE BIG LIE

If you'll cheat to win at golf, is it that much further to cheat to win an election? To turn a Congressional vote? To stop an investigation? If you'll lie about every aspect of the game, is it that much further to lie about your taxes, your relationship with Russians, your groping of women? If you're adamant that the poor don't deserve golf, is it that much further to think they don't deserve health care, clean air, safe schools?

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

I love caddies because caddies will tell you the truth and use very few words doing it.

Like Jesus, we must make the decision that we will never alter, amend, compromise, dilute, or mitigate truth to make our listeners more comfortable or to gain a following.

My wife and I have built trust with our children and have always had open communication.

A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.

I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.

And I think if you look at any relationship, for the relationship to be productive and to move forward and to grow, sometimes things have to be said that one person or the other person is not going to like to hear.

Ringo: 'I do get emotional when I think back about those times. My make-up is emotional. I'm an emotional human being. I'm very sensitive and it took me till I was forty-eight to realize that was the problem! We were honest with each other and we were honest about the music. The music was positive. It was positive in love. They did write - we all wrote - about other things, but the basic Beatles message was Love.

How fine to be willing to admit that one does not know what one does not know, instead of spewing out such nonsense and disgusting oneself!' (Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods).

Fake people can be silenced with truth.

Friendship is rooted in the protection of deep dark secrets.

Our moral code is constantly evolving; it's impacted by the betrayers, masters of deceit, and the pseudo-truth tellers among us, even those we love.

People who don't keep promises, can't be trusted.

People would lie less if they could only remember how difficult it is to live with the lie. There is one exception – narcissistic people live in a lie and therefore have no conscious of guilt regarding the consequences of their dishonest demeanor.

She taught me that without trust, love could never exist.

Silence is often the ultimate and most evident lie.

You can always tell the character of a person, by what they say about others who are not present.

My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.

Frighteningly honest. What Anthony Bourdain did to the world of cooking in Kitchen Confidential, Leopold will do to the world of journalism. It's Sid & Nancy meets All the President's Men.