Quotes About Honesty

That level of honesty is reserved for the counseling office. Church is too often a place of pretense and therefore a place without hope. When brokenness is disdained, where the real story is never told, the power of God is not felt. Where brokenness is invited and received with grace, the gospel comes alive with hope.

If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth" (1 John 1:8). It seems God leads us through failure toward maturity, rather than doing whatever is needed for us to move past ongoing failure.

We shouldn't have to be faithful, we should want to be faithful.

If you did a thing hoping a person wouldn't find out, that person always did.

What we done wrong the first time was doing it honest. I'm through with honest. It's every man for himself in this country, and that's the way I like it. There ain't much law and mostly it can be outrun.

Don't say to become a millionaire, because if you were honest with yourself, you are probably not willing to do what it would really take to become a millionaire.)

When everything gets messy and brutal and complicated, the truth is the first thing to go, isn't it?

There are words and there are feelings and somewhere between where the two meet is the truth

knew each other in that honest, unmitigated way that people get to know you who meet you when you're still young. Before all the rest of it. Before it becomes both easier and harder to know yourself.

Don't Ask a Question You Don't Want the Answer To

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. —Groucho Marx

We knew each other so well by this point—knew each other in that honest, unmitigated way that people get to know you who meet you when you're still young. Before all the rest of it. Before it becomes both easier and harder to know yourself.

My grandfather used to say that most people don't want to hear the thing that will make it work better," I said. "They want to hear what will make it easier." "And what did he say to do about that?" "Find other people. You know, for starters.

transparent with you…" "I wouldn't have guessed." "We received a package yesterday with a zip drive of Owen's work emails. I had to verify they were real, and they are. He kept

most people don't want to hear the thing that will make it work better," I said. "They want to hear what will make it easier.

I'm just not sure who I should be trusting here,' she says. 'Me,' I say. 'Just me.' She bites her lip, like she believes me, or at least like she is starting to believe me - which is more than I could hope for in this moment. Because you can't tell people to trust you. You have to show them that they can. And I haven't had enough time.

When you saw where the truth was, you wanted to get there as quickly as you could, before you lost sight of it again.

But consider this," Jesse said, picking the bourbon back up, "maybe you aren't in this position because you forgot yourself, but because you started getting honest about who you really might be.

She looked away from him. This was one reason she didn't date cops. They lied far too easily.

He leaned closer. "Don't lie to me, Caramia. I don't like it.

It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures and to be cheerful and have courage when things go wrong.

here's the thing about friends, I mean REAL friends: You can't just put up a poster at school and advertise for somebody and then hope you find the perfect one. It might work, I guess, but you'd look so pathetic and desperate that no one would want to be your friend, and so it would be kind of pointless

Half the troubles in life come from pretending to oneself that one is a better and finer human being than one is';

Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been afraid of anything in their entire life is either a liar or lacks imagination.