Quotes About Honesty

Each secret you carry has a weight all its own. They add up, secrets, to a burden you must carry all your days.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

Hemingway said that the best thing a writer can have is "a built-in shit detector.

A bad leader: • Will lie or stretch the truth • Puts his own interests first • Promotes himself ahead of his people • Is disrespectful • Won't let me do my job • Doesn't pull his share of the load.

Lyle Schaller asserted, "The final thing leaders will need is courage … the willingness to tell the truth, to say what is not politely or politically acceptable. … The most common expression of the courage to tell the truth is to say, 'It ain't workin'.'"6

we are, to the best of our ability, gaining a knowledge of God's will by the practice of faith, honesty, and unselfish service.

We must acquire honesty, humility, appreciation, and kill self-centeredness to keep sober.

Truth or tact You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.

If the condition of the love of country is a lie, the love itself, no matter how genuine, is a lie.

Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret to make you think: Why is the crazy stuff we never say, poetry in ink?

Definition of laying: you get cut sooner or later.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

Trust in the context of a conversation is believing that the other person will acknowledge me, not take advantage of me, not embarrass or humiliate me, tell me the truth, and, in the broader context, not cheat me, work on my behalf, and support the goals we have agreed to.

The paradox is that the main inhibitor of useful telling is often our own failure to inquire in a way that makes it safe for others to tell us the truth, or at least to share all of what they know.

How does one produce a climate in which people will speak up, bring up information that is safety related, and even correct superiors or those of higher status when they are about to make a mistake?

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.

The truth was this: I did not have the brains.

Captain Billings," he drawled finally, "if you will pardon my candor, I might remark that you are something of an ass, don't you know.

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.

Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

What I am is what I am. Are you what you are or what?