Quotes About Honesty

The ideas I'm working with are ideas I'm committed to. I don't know how to soft-shoe them. I don't know how to make them more palpable. I just never knew how to be one of those girls. I wish I knew how to be that sometimes, but I don't know how to be that way.

I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.

Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.

I wished I could go back to Atletico; I'm not going to lie.

I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people; you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes.

I always knew what I was worth, what I could do, what I could not do. I think that I have a genetic problem with lying. I just can't lie. I get in trouble with my husband because of that. He wishes that I wasn't so sincere, but I am.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

The likeability and popularity of 'Duck Dynasty's' Phil Robertson stem from his quick wit and honest assessment of situations that arise in reality television.

And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.

I'm not cooking every day anymore, and that's the biggest withdrawal. Cooking is honest work. Now I don't know how to measure myself.

I would never withhold information about the murder of my man Biggie, or anybody else. It's just silly and ridiculous. The accusations are just flying out. All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

My goal was never to withhold information; my goal was to make sure everything was accurate, and frequently it wasn't.

We have to come together and speak honestly about what the barriers are within our community - and then tear them down. It's really that simple.

He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.

He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

I think having a visionary CEO is awesome, and visionary leadership is one thing, but you also need checks and balances on whether this company can withstand a very honest and critical look at itself.

God as my witness, may He strike me down if this allegation is true.