Quotes About Honesty

Love people enough to tell them the truth and respect them enough to trust that they can handle it.

Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter.

In her opinion, hard asses were people who said mean things simply to be mean. They seemed to get a kick out of breaking people down and, if they felt like it after, building them back up. Kiki, however, just told people the honest truth if they asked.

and yet, the only thing about this year, he thinks, the only times that he has been completely honest with himself are on the nights he's spent here. Only among the crowd of the failed has he felt comfortable living inside his own defeat.

No sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is!

Secrets were pernicious and I wanted nothing to do with them.

To New York voters, Lehman's courage and honesty shone through. Herbert Lehman, the labor official George Meany wrote, "was the ideal public servant … He had none of the average politician's guile, the average diplomat's evasiveness, the average banker's greed, or the average statesman's aloofness." For Herbert Lehman, life was always about public service.

Let's replace "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you" with "Do unto others, after they show you they are worthy.

The very second he thinks he has to explain himself to you, he'll feel as though he is losing his freedom. Then he'll make up a story to conceal something that didn't need to be concealed, just to protect his "territory" or his "turf." And he'll feel cornered.

Relationship Principle 11 It is better to be disliked for being who you are than to be loved for who you are not.

Until he gives you a reason not to trust him, behave as though you trust him.

As Simone de Beauvoir observed, we must prefer to fathom rather than flatter ourselves.

I try not to expect people to be who I wish them to be, rather than who they are.

Even the boy who cried wolf was right about the wolf once.

We have to love technology enough to describe it accurately. And we have to love ourselves enough to confront technology's true effect on us.

When we don't want to know the truth, we don't hear the truth spoken to us.

The art of dying is the art of living. The honesty and grace of the years of life that are ending is the real measure of how we die. It is not in the last weeks or days that we compose the message that will be remembered, but in all the decades that proceeded them. Who has lived in dignity, dies in dignity.

The dignity that we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives. Ars moriendi as ars vivendi: The art of dying is the art of living. The honesty and grace of the years of life that are ending is the real measure of how we die. It is not in the last weeks or days that we compose the message that will be remembered, but in all the decades that preceded them. Who has lived in dignity, dies in dignity.

There is no use my not facing everything frankly. By facing everything frankly one gets everything quite cleared up.

No, I don't think I could fall in love with him, handsome though he is, because I don't accept any of that huff he gives me about my great beauty and all that. I'd have to trust a man's words before I could love him. I think.

Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.

Being honest about your feelings always works.

If you want to spot a liar, just remember that concealing the truth is like swallowing a slow-acting poison. It might take a while, but it will get them in the end. —VICTOR FLEMMING I

Why do you trust that boy?" I would overhear them asking. His answer was always the same. "Three reasons," he would say. "He doesn't lie. He doesn't say bad things about other people. And when he knocks on my door, he usually has a new idea.