Quotes About Honesty

We are paving new roads across new territory. We have no culturally approved scripts for open sexual lifestyles; we need to write our own. To write your own script requires a lot of effort, and a lot of honesty, and is the kind of hard work that brings many rewards. You may find the right way for you and three years from now decide you want to live a different way—and that's fine. You write the script, you get to make the choices, and you get to change your mind, too.

Most of us have been struck dumb by the scariest communication task of all—asking for what we want.

Another good form of consistency is to be honest with yourself and with your children—when you live your life in integrity, everyone can count on you to be exactly who you, wonderfully, are.

A lot of people describe having sex with only one person as 'being faithful'. It seems to me that faithfulness has very little to do with who you have sex with. Faithfulness is about honoring your commitments and respecting your friends and lovers, about caring for their well-being as well as your own.

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

Artist communities love to bullshit each other and glad-hand one another, and there's no room for the crippling honesty of comedy. "I'm a painter" -- well... you don't...probably need to do that. . . . if you're painting something that doesn't exist, I understand that, I can appreciate- . . . but if your pain- 'oh, it's a barnyard scene in autumn'--well then just take a picture of a barn in autumn! It's way better than a painting! - Before Turning the Gun on Himself [2012]

Mace Brown calmly walked over, put his arm on Carlton's shoulder, and looked into his filthy, sweat-streaked face. 'Son, I want to tell you something my daddy told me a long time ago,' he drawled. 'If you hadn't wanted to work, you oughtn't have hired out.' The words struck Carlton like a foul tip off the face mask. It sounded like one of the most profound statements of truth and essence he had ever heard.

Content with one woman?... That is impossible. If you could, then any man can, and any man can't.

Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.

In the early days of our ascent, being a prolific liar would have gotten you shunned from the tribe.

A seventeenth-century English politician once famously said, 'a diplomat is an honest man sent abroad to lie for the good of his country.

Good people are rarely suspicious: they cannot imagine others doing the things they themselves are incapable of doing. Then,

Perhaps this was one of the reasons for her reticence. She knew that he was keeping a huge part of his life from her.

You don't need creativity when you're telling the truth,

Psychopaths personified the old saying: "Sincerity: if you can fake that you've got it made.

a diplomat is an honest man sent abroad to lie for the good of his country.

Cronkite is not a genius at anything except being straight, honest, and normal.

A crooked peace officer is just a damned abomination," McCarthy wrote. "That's all you can say about it. He's ten times worse than the criminal."48

Because I was educated in the idea that fear or anxiety was something you didn't share with those nearest and dearest to you. As my dad used to tell me: Never let anyone know if you're about to shit in your pants.

We can rarely tell others what we really think about them--not just because it would so wound them, but also because it would so wound ourselves.

We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Roosevelt is dead: a man who would never tell the truth when a lie would serve him just as well.

Their writing has the deliberately obstructive style ordinarily employed when someone either has nothing to say or needs to conceal the fact that what they are saying is not true.