Quotes About Honesty

I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.

But mothers lie. It's in the job description.

I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

It's amazing how lies grow. You start with a small one that seems easy to cover, then you get boxed in and tell another one. Then another. People believe you at first, then they act upon your lies, and you catch yourself wishing you'd simply told the truth.

Her integrity was on the line.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.4       ââ'¬Â¢   Words can make a deeper scar than silence can ever heal.5       ââ'¬Â¢   Kind words are short to speak, but their echoes are endless.6

he. 'I have no doubt that some of them are honest enough by their own lights, that they are motivated by what they see as a genuine desire to change the political system. But on the other hand, I know as a fact that many of them are not, that they are merely cynical opportunists with an eye to their own gain.

La traición nunca prospera, cual será la razón? Que si prospera, nadie osa llamarla traición.

Our truest self is often the person we allow no one else to see—who we are when we are alone. In the real world, we edit. We compromise and prevaricate.

How can a good reputation be a hindrance? A good reputation naturally arises from doing good work. But if you try to cherish your reputation, if you try to preserve it, you lose the freedom and honesty necessary for further development.

Children and fools cannot lie.

If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.

We've got to tell the unvarnished truth

accountability. Now there is a word with a solid – indeed a solemn – pedigree. The Good Book itself tells us that on the Day of Judgement everyone shall be required to give an account of themselves.

Language so remote from the way we speak in the real world prompts the question: what's behind all that, then? Gushing vacuity addressed

O holy simplicity!

That was an explanation, not an excuse.

Sounding frank, honest, and sincere is, of course, a rhetorical strategy in itself, known from ancient literature as parrhesia. It's often employed by liars.

I don't care what party you belong to or what office you're seeking—you owe it to your constituents, to the people you're looking to serve, to get it right. If you say something is so, then it ought to be so.

Considera las palabras dichas como un medio de llegar a la verdad. Yo las considero un medio para ocultarla.

Cómo podría demostrar nadie que una promesa hecha era sincera, a no ser que fuera cumpliéndola?

Una promesa suele estar tan cerca de ser una mentira como de ser una verdad»

La gente dice «lo siento» sin parar. ¿Sabes cuántas veces he oído esa frase? Demasiadas. Y rara vez quien la pronuncia lo siente de verdad. Normalmente lo que quiere decir es «siento que me hayan pillado».