Quotes About Honesty

For a really long time, I've been trying to find balance where I can talk about my feelings and be upfront with people, confront issues and not have to beat them to death or ignore them.

I'm not into smoke-filled rooms. I don't have the time for byzantine political intrigues.

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

My father is a liar and so am I. But I'm going to stop. I have to stop. I will tell you my story and I will tell it straight. No lies, no omissions. That's my promise. This time I truly mean it.

I think social media has allowed the players to be able to say things that maybe didn't come out right the first time and say what they really meant. I think that it keeps people fair and honest.

Maybe it's time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.

In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.

I was completely loyal and faithful to Stephen throughout this time as, indeed, he assured me he was to me.

Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.

I'm a "what you see is what you get" kind of guy. I don't have any time to be showing anybody any bag of tricks.

Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people.

The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.

It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

I'm a really bad liar. My mom finds out every time, especially now that she's got Facebook.

If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.

The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.

I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.

Most of us are honest all the time, and all of us are honest most of the time.

Be yourself. Authenticity trumps cool every time.

As Christians, we're under oath all the time. We're not always required to say everything we think or know, but we're always to speak as He did-truthfully.

Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.

Stop lying. There isn't enough time left.

You can't be a part-time man of principle.