Quotes About Honesty

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy.

If you cheat on your road work in the dark of the morning, you will be found out in the big fight under the bright lights.

There are still some honest people left in the world, but they never seem to find anything you lose.

You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Because we are social animals, we not only lie for our own benefit, but we lie for the benefit of each other (Vrij, 2003, 3–11).

Research tells us liars tend to gesture less, touch less, and move their arms and legs less than honest people (Vrij, 2003, 65).

But visualization is one thing. Being brutally honest means expecting bad shots. Because the reality is you will hit a lot of bad shots. The secret is to move on from those bad shots, and the way to do that is to be ready for them.

I can't stand a damn liar and have no respect for one. But an artful exaggerator always gets my full attention and my undying respect. —Nat Love

I'm going to say my name is Dorothy Sherman and I'm telling it like it is. I'm going to say my friends call me Dot, and I prefer my enemies not to call me at all.

and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him,'" the voice replied.

Jaybird don't rob his own nes'.

Don't do anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day.

If you will lie about the little things, before long you'll lie about bigger things.

Buy the truth and do not sell it; get wisdom, discipline and understanding. PROVERBS 23:23

It's hard to be something that you're not. It's hard to keep everyone happy, wear different masks, and pretend, depending on who you're with. You know what's easy: being you, being real, being vulnerable.

You don't have to hide. You don't have to pretend, worry about what people will think. Everyone is dealing with something. There's no shame in saying, "I need help. I'm struggling; I'm hurting; I'm broken.

Your soul may feel broken, wounded, hurt from mistakes you've made or from what someone else did. But your soul can be restored. When you get honest with yourself and you release what you need to release—guilt, worry, anger, jealousy—then healing will come. Joy will come.

Suspicion kills friendship.

The reason that you cannot feel any [spiritual] progress in yourself is that you cannot feel spiritual. There is no such thing as a person's feeling spiritual. That is as impossible as feeling that you are honest or feeling that you are moral.

The reason that you cannot feel any progress in yourself is that you cannot feel spiritual. There is no such thing as a person's feeling spiritual. That is as impossible as feeling that you are honest or feeling that you are moral.

I'm sick of happy bullshit that means nothing. Vacuous words for vacuous minds.

In the end it never works out. You are who you are, no matter what you pretend at the beginning. So I'm not pretending. I drink to ignore my problems. I spend more time with my computer than with my friends. I am angry and lonely, but I can wash dishes just fine. I'm being honest. Please don't be an asshole about this.

I said I would never leave you, but come on. What are you, new?