Quotes About Honesty

Platitudes might satisfy for a short time, father—but soon or late, the people will realize they are being fed form without substance. What I tell them must be the truth, and I must believe it, and I must hold to it.

Love is as much trust as it is devotion

Some terrible people could be redeemed if they weren't too far gone. Some kind people could turn hate-filled and cruel. Some liars became the most honest, loyal friends possible. Or not. It really was up to them. Some saw the benefits of empathy and helpfulness, and gained the ecstasy of validation by love. Others, not so much, and just a few more weaponized their pasts. Whatever their origin story, an asshole was an asshole.

If you are with someone you love Tell them.

Whatever we say We're always telling each other exactly what we want them to know... We are always telling each other The truth Even when We're lying

If the person you're speaking to will think worse or less of the person you're speaking about, then it's gossip, so cut it out!

We live in a world where everything tends to get oversold, then all too often under-delivers. I'd prefer to be known for the opposite.

Pero no me imaginaba que se pudiera comunicar sinceramente con alguien. En los libros la gente se hace declaraciones de amor, de odio, pone su corazón en frases; en la vida uno nunca pronuncia palabras que pesan

In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with thoughts and feelings - where we can experience healthy psychological autonomy and can choose to share when we want to. Keeping secrets is usually about power, about hiding and concealing information.

Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.

We are encouraged to see honest people as naive, as potential losers.

Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.

To be loving we willingly hear each other's truth and, most important, we affirm the value of truth telling. Lies may make people feel better, but they do not help them to know love.

Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love.

Often, men who would never think of lying in the workplace lie constantly in intimate relationships. This seems to be especially the case for heterosexual men who see women as gullible.

Trusting that another person always intends your good, having a core foundation of loving practice, cannot exist within a context of deception.

The heart of justice is truth telling, seeing ourselves and the world the way it is rather than the way we want to be.

If we were constantly remembering that love is as love does, we would not use the word in a manner that devalues and degrades it's meaning.

Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love. When we see ourselves as we truly are and accept ourselves, we build the necessary foundation for self-love.

Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love. It is impossible to nurture one's own or another's spiritual growth when the core of one's being and identity is shrouded in secrecy and lies. Trusting that another person always intends your good, having a core foundation of loving practice, cannot exist within a context of deception.

Lies may make people feel better, but they do not help them to know love.

Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love.

And if one's goal is self-recovery, to be well in one's soul, honesty and realistically confronting loneliness is party of the healing process.

Without trust there can be no genuine intimacy and love.