Quotes About Honesty

There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years -- block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.

Be conscious of God and speak always the truth

And then there was the unsettling fact that, despite whatever my mother might claim, the bullies, cheats, and self-promoters seemed to be doing quite well, while those she considered good and decent people seemed to get screwed an awful lot.

When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point.

But it's just that he is basically a very honest person. That makes him uncompromising sometimes.

Craig, a basketball star at Princeton who had worked in investment banking before getting into coaching, used to joke that the family didn't think Michelle ("Miche," they called her) would ever get married because she was too tough—no guy could keep up with her. The weird thing was, I liked that about her; how she constantly challenged me and kept me honest.

Until those basic human responses that normally govern our daily lives—honesty, empathy, courtesy, patience, goodwill—feel like weakness when extended to the other side.

those basic human responses that normally govern our daily lives—honesty, empathy, courtesy, patience, goodwill—

If I say I will do something, I must do it. Otherwise, how will people know that my word is true?

Honest, decent men and women with attainable ambitions, and the determination to see those ambitions through.

It makes me wonder now, with the benefit of hindsight, whether Michelle's was the more honest response to all the changes we were going through; whether in my seeming calm as crises piled up, my insistence that everything would work out in the end, I was really just protecting myself—and contributing to her loneliness.

Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.

Integrity isn't something you have in some parts of your life and not in others. You either have it, or you don't.

But if she was being honest—and it was well past time for that—she had to acknowledge that the empty places in her life were of her own making.

Maybe it is that if these stones speak at all, they speak true,' she said softly. 'They speak what will be, not what we want to hear.

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular.

Beene-beene. The truest truth.

Keeping secrets from young ears only plants seeds in between them

If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.

she considered a language that could carry nothing but love and simple truth.

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

The girl was compulsively honest. In earlier years, Willa's every attempt to teach her the artful evasion known as "tact" would get shot down with "Mom, that's lying!" And Tig remained the child who announced when opening gifts at birthday parties, "Thanks, Grandma, I have one of these already and I don't really like it.