Quotes About Honesty

When I'm writing, I separate from everyone. Even my band. I push myself, and I'm alone with my thoughts. Separating from friends and comforts and family lets you think a lot deeper about subject matter. Working alone drives me a little crazy, but it makes the writing as honest as possible.

I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

If the mind is calm, your spontaneity and honest thoughts appear. You become more spontaneous.

I don't think even when you find a person, you can be completely honest, ever. There's still pieces of you that you don't give away. I do believe you always need that place where it's just you, your thoughts, no one else's judgment or anything.

For every dollar you give away, you'll get a hundred back. And for every buck you steal, you'll lose a thousand.

Of a thousand people, someone's not a good guy.

Never tell a lie, unless it's funny

One mustn't lose sight of the hard core, which is, do this, do that, love your friends, like your neighbors, be just, be extravagantly generous, be honest, be tolerant, have courage, have compassion, use your wits and your imagination, understand the world you live in and be on terms with it, don't dramatize and dream and escape. Anyhow that seems to be the pattern.

Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

When her friend Cor Suijk asked her directly if she knew the name of the betrayer, she asked, "Cor, can you keep a secret?" Very eagerly he answered, "Yes, Miep, I can!" And she smiled and said, "Me, too.

Fame stole my yellow. Yellow is the color you get when you're real and brutally honest. Yellow is with my kids[...]The bundle of bright yellow warming my core, formerly frozen and uninhabitable[...]They got yellow from me, and I felt yellow giving it to them and it was all good[...]So, why am I leaving my show? It took my yellow. I wanted it back. Without it I can't live. The gray kills me.

His appraisal of the state of the world was a bleak one: "No one speaks truthfully anymore," he writes. "Everything is deceit, lies, cunning, theft, sodomy, wickedness, with no fear of God or concern for the world. O miserable Christians, worse than beasts, where are you headed?

If you got to talking to most cowboys, they'd admit they write 'em. I think some of the meanest, toughest sons of bitches around write poetry.

There's a contradiction in your thinking," I said. "If I took your dirty money, you wouldn't be able to trust my honesty.

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

Henri de Lubac, one of the most outstanding Roman Catholic theologians of the twentieth century, put it with a clarity and brevity very hard to improve upon: 'It is not sincerity, it is truth which frees us… To seek sincerity above all things is perhaps, at bottom, not to want to be transformed.

Be kind, truthful, and honest. Discipline your thoughts and actions. Concentrate on essentials and disregard nonessentials. Think about what is most important to you and focus your attention on those matters.

The risk of insult is the price of clarity.

Now, I must give him credit for this," said Wolfe. "If you ever have a preposterous statement to make… say it in five words or less, because we're always used to five-word sentences as being the gospel truth." The

Patativa do Assaré: "É melhor escrever errado a coisa certa do que escrever certo a coisa errada...

é preciso decidir, sabendo que qualquer caminho será doloroso e sem segurança sobre o final. Para ser honesto, essa é a condição geral da vida: nunca se sabe. "Se é bom ou se é mau, só o futuro o dirá".

I never want to try to be a spokesperson for health and wellness because I most definitely am not the most in shape person in the world.

Any land will flow with milk and honey if it is worked with honest hands!