Quotes About Honesty

Those who have lied enough, in word and action, live there, in hell—now. Take a walk down any busy urban street. Keep your eyes open and pay attention. You will see people who are there, now. These are the people to whom you instinctively give a wide berth. These are the people who are immediately angered if you direct your gaze toward them, although sometimes they will instead turn away in shame.

An inauthentic person continues to perceive and act in ways his own experience has demonstrated false. He does not speak with his own voice.

Realization is dawning. Instead of playing the tyrant, therefore, you are paying attention. You are telling the truth, instead of manipulating the world.

Uma personalidade saudável, dinâmica e, acima de tudo, verdadeira, admitirá quando cometeu um erro. Abandonará voluntariamente – ou deixará morrer – perceções, pensamentos e hábitos ultrapassados, olhando-os como impedimentos à continuação do seu crescimento e êxito. Esta alma é a que deixará velhas crenças serem consumidas, muitas vezes de forma dolorosa, para poder voltar a viver e avançar, renovada.

Ir a lo fácil o decir la verdad no son solamente dos opciones distintas. Son dos caminos diferentes que atraviesan la vida. Son dos formas totalmente distintas de existir.

If you will not reveal yourself to others, you cannot reveal yourself to yourself.

To accept the truth means to sacrifice—and if you have rejected the truth for a long time, then you've run up a dangerously large sacrificial debt.

A good therapist will tell you the truth about what he thinks. (That is not the same thing as telling you that what he thinks is the truth.) Then

Todos tenemos que asumir la máxima responsabilidad posible a nivel individual, de la sociedad y del mundo. Todos tenemos que decir la verdad, arreglar lo que está deteriorado y destruir y recrear lo que se ha quedado desfasado. Es así como podemos y debemos reducir el sufrimiento que envenena el mundo. Eso es pedir mucho. Es pedirlo todo.

Kada iznevjerite sami sebe, kada govorite neistine i živite laž, slabite svoj karakter. Ako imate slab karakter, nevolje ?e vas pomesti kada se pojave, a neizbježno je da se pojave. Skrivat ?ete se, ali ne?ete se više imati kamo skriti. A onda ?ete se zate?i kako radite užasne stvari.

TELL THE TRUTH—OR, AT LEAST, DON'T LIE

Aceptar la verdad es un sacrificio, y si has estado rechazándola durante mucho tiempo, entonces has acumulado una deuda enorme en lo que se refiere a sacrificios.

Una persona inauténtica sigue percibiendo las cosas y actuando de formas que su propia experiencia ha demostrado que son falsas. No habla con su propia voz.

Those who are power hungry—tyrannical and cruel, even psychopathic—desire control over others so that every selfish whim of hedonism can be immediately gratified; so that envy can destroy its target; so that resentment can find its expression. But good people are ambitious (and diligent, honest, and focused along with it) instead because they are possessed by the desire to solve genuine, serious problems.

Courageous and truthful words will render your reality simple, pristine, well-defined and habitable.

Do not pretend you are happy with something if you are not, and if a reasonable solution might, in principle, be negotiated. Have the damn fight. Unpleasant as that might be in the moment, it is one less straw on the camel's back.

Say what you mean, so that you can find out what you mean. Act out what you say, so you can find out what happens. Then pay attention. Note your errors.

What are the most valuable things everyone should know?" I wrote a list of rules, or maxims; some dead serious, some tongue-in-cheek—"Be grateful in spite of your suffering," "Do not do things that you hate," "Do not hide things in the fog," and so on.

Leave aside that telling people you're virtuous isn't a virtue, it's self-promotion. Virtue signalling is not virtue. Virtue signalling is, quite possibly, our commonest vice.)

If you listen, instead, without premature judgment, people will generally tell you everything they are thinking—and with very little deceit. People will tell you the most amazing, absurd, interesting things. Very few of your conversations will be boring. (You can in fact tell whether or not you are actually listening in this manner. If the conversation is boring, you probably aren't.)

What shall I do to strengthen my spirit? Do not tell lies, or do what you despise.

You might discover, instead, that you were just afraid and, so, pretending to be moral.

And, above all, don't lie. Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell. It was the great and the small lies of the Nazi and Communist states that produced the deaths of millions of people.

No mientas por nada, nunca.