Quotes About Honesty

When people keep secrets, those secrets have a nasty way of festering. They can turn into poison. They can kill.

He sounded almost too genuine to be genuine.

How it is the small lies and evasions which nobody sees or detects but which can come together and smother you like the fumes in a house fire.

The truth was important. The truth mattered. It mattered more than the fact that he was only twelve and that his story was completely preposterous. People like Granny, all bullies in fact, only managed to survive because they lived behind the truth. Once people knew them for what they were, they would be powerless.

She's gone, Dad. She was a total cow and she ruined our lives. Neither of us has to pretend any more.

They are noted in bold print.

I have never intentionally provided false and misleading information to the NCAA.

I have great respect for people who live out their beliefs. For example, Ed Begley Jr. is an environmentalist, but he really lives his lives, and is he very prudent in the way he lives. He's cautious. He's not like an Al Gore that flies around in a private jet and burns 20,000 gallons a day on his jet.

I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This was my whole problem.

Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.

In a team situation, I think the players are more inclined to give the answer they believe the psychologist is looking for rather than maybe being totally honest.

We don't need a psychologist with the Dutch team; we are grown-up men. The ones who have a problem with other players or the manager should tell them face-to-face. That is the only psychology we need.

If you're a public official, your life is an open book.

We desperately need to have a public that actually cares whether things are true of not.

When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.

Sometimes I got scared of being too honest, because being in the public eye, I have always tried to hide my personal life. But I realized that isn't healthy.

I feel that responsibility to really be authentic with people because I think that's what they deserve, especially in a time when it's very easy for people in the public eye to sort of cultivate an image.

It really irritates me when I see people in the public eye who pretend they do it all and I know they don't.

I know I could have a better public image if I were less open, if I ducked more issues and didn't speak out. But it's not my nature.

Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.

Honestly, if you are going to run for public office, I think it's incumbent... to speak up.

Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public servants, are being honest, holding them accountable for their actions!

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.