Quotes About Honesty

Our way must be: Never knowingly support lies!"3 You may not have the strength to stand up in public and say what you really believe, but you can at least refuse to affirm what you do not believe. You may not be able to overthrow totalitarianism, but you can find within yourself and your community the means to live in the dignity of truth.

When it comes to survival, maybe what's most important is simple fidelity: not by evangelizing people directly but by developing honest relations with one another—not looking for whether one is good or bad, or judging them by their ideology," says K?ska. "He was constantly observed by the secret police, parked right in front of his home. During the severely cold winters, he would bring them hot tea to warm them up. Because they were people, just like that.

old Russian proverb, beloved by Solzhenitsyn: "One word of truth outweighs the whole world.

In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself. I have never written anything that I didn't want my name attached to. I have probed deeper in some scripts and I've been more successful in some than others. But all of them that have been on, you know, I'll take my lick. They're mine and that's the way I wanted them.

It is about time that we discard all bunkum--

The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.

You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.

I see myself at 7:30 in the morning and it's not too pretty.

Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.

Didn't lie give you

the only thing of any use is the truth.

I figured out I'm bisexual. I have sex twice a year.

I acknowledged my sin to You, And my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD," And You forgave the iniquity of my sin. (Psalm 32:5)

Management wizard Jim Collins, best-selling author of Good to Great and Built to Last, argues that what must glaringly separate great companies from mediocre ones is the latter's tendency "to explain away the brutal facts rather than to confront the brutal facts head-on.

He taught me the importance of commitment, of doing what you say you're going to do. It really isn't complicated. If you say you're going to do something, you do it. If you don't plan on doing it, then don't overcommit.

Trust opens people up to give you the truth, rather than just telling you what you want to hear.

The right data delivered at the right time represents a valuable source of feedback, the kind that doesn't lie!

The scariest question is the one you don't want to hear the answer to.

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

Live by what you believe so fully that your life blossoms, or else purge the fear-and-guilt producing beliefs from your life. When people believe one thing and do something else, they are inviting misery. If you give yourself the name, play the game. When you believe something you don't follow with your heart, intellect, and body, it hurts. Don't do that to yourself. Live your belief, or let that belief go. If you are not actively living a belief, it's not really your belief, anyway.

It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness.

Nobody steals books but your friends.

Maneck studied beggermaster's excessive chatter, his attempt to hide his heartache. Why did human do that to their feelings? Whether it was anger or love or sadness, they always tried to put something else forward in its place. And then there were those who pretended their emotions were bigger and grander than anyone else's. A little annoyance they acted like gigantic rage; where a smile or chuckle will do, they laughed hysterically. Either way, it was dishonest.

Unfortunately, however, people don't change by learning more information. The only way to break a bonding pattern is through honest vulnerability.