Quotes About Honesty

If a person is willing to lie to you once, how can you ever be sure they won't lie to you again? The trust was gone. If there's no trust between two people, what is there? No relationship is perfect. No matter how much love there is, there's a strong chance you're going to hit rocky times at some point. Life is unpredictable. It can throw out the unexpected and the challenging. Coping with that requires trust and honesty.

I'm not what you might call a mystery. I'm pretty much an open book – Jake says I'm an audio book, because everything I'm thinking comes out of my mouth.

No one lies down in this place. Unless they're dead. When you're dead, you get to lie down and only after we've tried to resuscitate you.

No relationship is perfect. No matter how much love there is, there's a strong chance you're going to hit rocky times at some point. Life is unpredictable. It can throw out the unexpected and the challenging. Coping with that requires trust and honesty.

If it's true love, then it will abide. If it was a fleeting crush, then it will turn to dust. Either way, the truth will out.

I'm sorry you aren't as brave as you thought you were. But don't punish me because of it.

The rest of us become narrow and mean when we live falsely. I'm sick to death of living falsely. I've been doing it for years.

She said, 'It's real, isn't it?' Lilian answered after a pause, with a bowed head, in a murmur. 'Yes, it's real. It's the only real thing.

Everyone's so narrow and mean and --' 'No. Only a few people are. But the rest of us -- don't you see? The rest of us become narrow and mean when we live falsely....

I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded.

The thing is, when it came to men, I wasn't unrealistic. I knew they all had their faults; I just wanted someone kind, someone I could trust

It is easy to touch up your outward appearance, to look as if you have it all together. Your attempts to look good can fool most people. But I see straight through you, into the depths of your being. There is no place for pretense in your relationship with Me. Rejoice in the relief of being fully understood. Talk with Me about your struggles and feelings of inadequacy.

When you are with someone you trust completely, you feel free to be yourself. This is one of the joys of true friendship.

Be truthful, gentle and fearless. The words floated back into her consciousness as though on fluttering muslin in front of an open window.

Be truthful, gentle and fearless, she told herself. That was the best anyone could be.

Truthful, tick. Gentle, tick. Fearless? Well, she'd never told her daughter she'd disappointed her before, so tick, tick, tick.

It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

People were so scared of telling the truth because the truth was chaotic and complicated and decidedly uncool, but uncool was the way I rolled. Or it would be if I used tired old phrases like 'That's the way I roll', which I so don't.

You should never let secrets fester.

He didn't say anything and I thought I'd shocked him, because I tend to do that. Not just with Michael but with pretty much anyone who can't deal with being honest and admitting that you have wants and needs and desires and all those other fun things.

Secrets aren´t the same as lying.

It was just she was so full of bullshit and someone needed to call her on it and...and...she reacted so beautifully.

The end of education is character