Quotes About Honesty

Being married is different than not being married, and anybody who tells you that it's the same is lying.

I just would like to keep singing. As soon as I'm not singing well, I hope that I know it, so that I can get off the stage and leave what I have done. I hope I'll know, and if I don't, I hope somebody tells me.

Anything where we're the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it.

Joe Jackson is a great man. The problem that people have with my father is that he tells it like it is. He's just straight up and doesn't beat around the bush. Tough love.

I'm not so great at keeping secrets; maybe that's why no one ever tells me things.

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.

Anyone who tells you they're not nervous playing on the CMAs stage, I'm afraid they're not telling you the whole story.

There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.

Every forward is selfish, and any forward who tells you he is not selfish is a liar.

When a man tells a woman there is no chance of a formal, committed, long-term relationship, the only self-respecting response is to take him at his word and move on.

The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fishbowl and tells you their point of view.

I'd rather have someone who tells me straight up what happens rather than sweet things that I want to hear.

The biggest compliment I get is when someone tells me, 'You're so real.' Even if my journey isn't exactly like theirs.

If someone tells you over and over that everything's great, you immediately think, 'OK, what's the rest of the story?'

Sarah Paulson doesn't lie. Like, in life. But she doesn't lie onscreen, and you can't take your eyes off somebody who always tells the truth. She's the most honest person I've ever met.

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

judge people by what they do and not what they say they will do.

Plus, he was a plainspoken man. Four decades later, when former Mistys were interviewed, they to a man spoke of Day's bluntness. "He called a spade a fucking spade," one said.

I don't mean to be insolent. I'm truthful. I tell the truth and the truth sometimes hurts. For instance, you have bad breath, Lieutenant. I can smell it from here. It must offend a lot of people. That's the truth. But how many people have told you that? Instead, they either lie or try to avoid your company.

Prove yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish, and someday you will be a real boy.' The Blue Fairy said that. In Pinocchio.

The Truth At Any Cost Lowers All Other Costs

If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.

Never take anything that doesn't belong to you or that you haven't earned," he said, sliding into the car. "You never know who you're stealing from, and what that money means to them.

If you take this shit to heart, you die with a heart full of shit.