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Quotes About Honesty

Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.
~ Gene Hackman
Honesty is what brings people to change and that's what i'm trying to learn in life.
~ Hayley Williams
I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.
~ Henry Rollins
In life, people will take you at your own reckoning.
~ Isaac Asimov
Good character improves every aspect of a person's life.
~ John C. Maxwell
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.
~ Antony Sher
When the cartoonist is trying to talk honestly and seriously about life, then I believe he has a responsibility to think beyond satisfying the market's every whim and desire.
~ Bill Watterson
If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would be lying there saying, 'You just blew your entire life.'
~ Bruce Jenner
We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.
~ Henry Cisneros
My workout is my obligation to life. It's my tranquilizer. It's part of the way I tell the truth--and telling the truth is what's kept me going all these years.
~ Jack LaLanne
You can't live a truthful life without regret.
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
~ William Hazlitt
One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.
~ Dorothy Day
Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.
~ Seneca the Younger
The best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's.
~ Terry Pratchett
Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
~ Charles Dickens
A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that's one thing; but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that's entirely different.
~ Diana Vreeland
I don't lie; I improve on my life.
~ Edith Piaf
Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.
~ Epicurus
Every Christian can witness to God in the workplace, not only with words, but above all with an honest life.
~ Pope Francis
Whatsoever you hide goes on growing, and whatsoever you expose, if it is wrong it disappears, evaporates in the sun, and if it is right it is nourished.
~ Rajneesh
Though the universe is delightfully complex, life, at its heart, is not particularly complicated. Live true to who you are and though it won't always be easy, you'll live well.
~ Ralph Marston
I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.
~ Randy Harrison