Quotes About Honesty

That's that. Put it in your hat and wear it to town, Locke. We need to face our shortcomings head on. The old saying for a gang is, ''Lies go out, but the truth stays home''.

All we had to do was complete the same two statements Michael had hanging in his office in his declaration: I declare that I am … and You can count on me to … Simple? Sure. But far from easy. Do it right, and you will find yourself digging deep inside.

I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.

The trouble with excuses, however, is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they've been used a couple of times.

You have an honest way of writing, especially your first book. It's genuine. That may not seem like the most thrilling compliment, but a voice like yours—a real voice—is rare these days.

I'm not really cool, or dashing, or any of those things.

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Confessed faults are half mended.

Jeremiah's lament makes me thankful today for the freedom you give us to bring our unfiltered and unfettered feelings to you. If we don't bring our painful emotions to you, we will take them somewhere.

All of us would like to have been born Infallible, but since we knew we weren't, It's better to attend to those who speak In honesty and good faith, and learn from them.

But every now and then, just weighing in is what it must come down to, and without any self-exculpation or self-pity.

Candour before canniness. Doing the right thing And not just saying it.

You can't, friend, have your palm greased and expect To get away clean. Everything comes out.

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.

No one ever has time to examine himself honestly, and most people look no further than their neighbors' eyes, in which they may see their own reflection.

I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.

When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception.

You are as crooked as a bank robber if you do not pay your debts on time.

I am not one of the great journalists of my time.

Seek truth! Seek truth in the darkness, under the oceans, above the clouds; seek it everywhere and every time! Stop deceiving yourself with the untruth, seek the truth!

All right, I am often brash, rude and brutally direct. Someday I'm going to die and I don't have time to toe-dance around the periphery of hatred.

You must not lie about trilobites, nor yet about time.

I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite.