Quotes About Honesty

You can't fake anything. If you're honest and true and you love something, and you put that energy into it, people can usually feel it on the other side.

Talk is cheap. If it wasn't, people might not toss around 'I love you' like a marked-down phrase in a sales bin.

All who love have lied.

Rainbows is a pretty honest look at my approach to life and love. While I admit to not exactly being an angel, I do try and live life to the fullest and give as much as I can of myself in the process

I love my girlfriend to bits. I'd never do anything to hurt her.

If Stevie was being completely honest with herself—and she preferred not to be—David's concern felt very good. He was really worried about her, possibly more worried than she was about herself. He cared. It sent warm bubbles of pleasure through her system.

Mediocrities can tolerate being surrounded only by flatterers who conceal their mediocrity.

If there's anything I'm proud of in my work--it's not that I draw better; there's so many better graphic artists than me--or that I write better, no. It's--and I'm not saying I know the truth, because what the hell is that? But what I got from Ruth and Dave, a kind of fierce honesty, to not let the kid down, to not let the kid get punished, to not suffer the child to be dealt with in a boring, simpering, crushing-of-the-spirit kind of way.

I refuse to lie to children. I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.

At my age, a man husbands his resources. He says nothing that he does not really mean.

She said she had selected me because she knew me to be honest, sober, and capable, and no stranger to Oxford.

Trump supporters routinely praise him for his "honesty," by which they mean, apparently, not actually telling the truth but making "politically incorrect" remarks—their term of art for racist, xenophobic, or otherwise offensive statements.

Americans are an honest people, we expect a fair deal. I know that a lot of other cultures used to think that was naive and even childish, but it's one of our most sacred principles.

Americans are an honest people, we expect a fair deal. I know that a lot of other cultures used to think that was naïve and even childish, but it's one of our most sacred principles. To see Uncle Sam going back on his word, revoking people's private lives, revoking their freedom…

Es stimmt nicht einmal, daß ich immer nur mich selbst beschrieben habe. Ich habe mich selbst nie beschrieben. Ich habe mich nur verraten.

illusory transparency of intent.

Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.

Our task is not to whitewash nor bloat the truth. Our task is to tell the truth. Period.

Confession is a radical reliance on grace. A proclamation of our trust in God's goodness. "What I did was bad," we acknowledge, "but your grace is greater than my sin, so I confess it." If our understanding of grace is small, our confession will be small: reluctant, hesitant, hedged with excuses and qualifications, full of fear of punishment. But great grace creates an honest confession.

The ripple of today's lie is tomorrow's wave and next year's flood.

You want to make a difference in your world? Live a holy life: Be faithful to your spouse. Be the one at the office who refuses to cheat. Be the neighbor who acts neighborly. Be the employee who does the work and doesn't complain. Pay your bills. Do your part and enjoy life. Don't speak one message and live another. People are watching the way we act more than they are listening to what we say.

That's what guilt is: a healthy regret for telling God one thing and doing another.

La oración es realmente así de sencilla. Resístete al impulso de complicarla. No te sientas orgulloso por las oraciones muy elaboradas. No pidas disculpas por las oraciones incoherentes. Nada de juegos. Sin encubrimientos. Simplemente sé sincero… sincero con Dios. Súbete a su regazo. Cuéntale todo lo que hay en tu corazón. O no le digas nada. Solo eleva tu corazón al cielo y declara: Padre… Papito…

Those who keep secrets from God keep their distance from God. Those who are honest with God draw near to God.