Quotes About Honesty

I can remember, when I was in college, irritating deeply somebody I was going out with, because he would ask me what I was thinking and I would say I was thinking nothing. And it was true.

I wanted to write what I remembered to be true.

Remembering in an honest way means admitting the truth.

When I get scored on or something doesn't go my way, I think of what I'm able to do and I'm reminded that I'm capable of doing it. I'm honest about myself - I know I'm not going to stop everything, so I don't try for perfection. I'm going to try to get there, but I know I'll never be perfect. I think that helps me to deal with everything.

It is good to connect to someone who reminds you that you have some real authenticity.

Our state's world famous motto, 'Show me,' reminds us that Missourians don't much value big talk.

There was never a shred, never a hint, never a possibility - not a remote, not a million-, not a billion-to-one possibility - I could have planted anything. Nor would I have a reason to.

I want to remove the curtain of pretence from all of my characters.

Even while rendering my service in politics, I worked honestly.

When rock loses integrity it's time for renewal.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

I'm not going to be pretentious and two-faced to get a good review. But that's the kind of thing which gets you a rep in this business.

Every role I take on, I try and bring my best and to be as honest as possible. I try not to repeat things I've done in the past. Which gets harder and harder.

Members will hear me say repeatedly words are important; deeds are a reality.

The 'Rule of Three' is simply getting the other guy to agree to the same thing three times in the same conversation, it's really hard to repeatedly lie or fake conviction.

I will keep repeating, that if you find me guilty of corruption then take the strictest action against me.

I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.

I want to hear from my team in a way that they know they don't have to hold back. I've made it clear that there are no repercussions for brutal honesty. I let them know that we want to hear about anything they feel is not working for the company.

Fortunately, I've done so many interviews that I've become very good at detecting when someone is giving a less-than-candid reply.

The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party.

The financial report makes it very clear that if we got into honest budgeting today, that in fact we would find ourselves with a much larger deficit than we have today.

Some day, someone will do something wrong and there will be a scandal to report in the paper. When that happens, we will address it honestly and openly and try to deal with it as quickly and as fairly as we can, and keep moving the city forward.

I'm glad that he's got all this behind him. And I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of people - and there are certain people that don't report the news accurate for their own personal fame and gain. And they know who they are.

I feel like my job is to look at the world and to report what I see, to write what I see as honestly and directly as I can. I don't want to cut it or make it easy, but be as direct as I can.