Quotes About Honesty

I tell these stories because I have lied about my life to people who have been kind to me and I am tired of lying. I tell it because I don't want people to think that I have fucked up my life over and over just because I was in a bad mood.

The truth shall make you free, but first it shall make you angry.

The reason so many promises are not kept is the same reason they are made in the first place.

I don't have all the answers. (...) Let me be really clear about that.

There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.

Don't try to write a bestselling book, or even a good book. Write a true book.

Henceforth He demands that all such conventions should cease; that we should be entirely open and honest with Him, that we should display ourselves as we really are -- that we should lay aside, in a word, all those comparatively harmless make-believes and courtesies, and be utterly real.

As Max DePree, former CEO of furniture maker Herman Miller, put it, "The first job of a leader is to define reality.

Forgiveness is also important because, as a study of surgical errors found, "when a subordinate sees his technical errors are forgiven, he recognizes there is no incentive to hide them. He is less likely, therefore, to compound his problems by attempting to treat problems that are over his head for fear of superordinate reprisal.

smart talk trap."17 This a syndrome where companies hire, reward, and promote people for sounding smart rather than making sure that smart things are done.

He sought out and surrounded himself with people that he trusted to tell him the truth (rather than what he hoped to hear) about the severity and nuances of challenges that he and the company faced—and when he was screwing up.

Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, east a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock I stand. – That he will not torture the forgiving. – Upon that rock I stand. – That every man should be true to himself, and that there is no world, no star, in which honesty is a crime. Upon that rock I stand. The honest man, the good woman, the happy child, have nothing to fear, either in this world or the world to come. Upon that rock I stand.

People who love their enemies should, at least, tell the truth about their friends.

reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

It wasn't who a person believed himself to be or what he pretended he would do in a given situation. It was what he did when he got there that defined him.

The challenge of carving an honest and accurate accounting out of the hidden casino syndicates of Las Vegas in the early 1960s was a daunting and almost impossible task, and to the mind of Jimmy Alo, who had several casino syndicates to take care of, there was one obvious man for the job.

We can't be everything to everyone and still be true to ourselves.

Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much:—surely that may be his epitaph of which he need not be ashamed.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

A child should always say what's trueAnd speak when he is spoken to,And behave mannerly at table;At least as far as he is able.