Quotes About Honesty

For the president of the United States, reputation does matter. The reputation of the United States does matter. We are dealing with countries all over the world. They want to know if your word is good. Trump's word is not good.

I have never lied on anyone to disrepute or sully their reputation for the sake of revenge.

People can hold any opinion that they want on any subject that they choose. Just don't proactively lie to people. It's a simple request, really, and one that we don't hear nearly enough.

I say what is required to be said.

Columnists must make sure that when they describe an event, they are being accurate in their description. When they quote someone, they are required to do so accurately. Errors that are made must be corrected openly and quickly.

When I was going to school and under the influence of Abstract Expressionism, I believed that if you had a give-and-take rapport with your work that it would be you, and that would be all that was required. It would be honest, and the core of your personality would come out if you responded to position and contrasts in your work.

Fidelity is a gift not a requirement.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.

Awkward conversations are painful, but they're way easier than divorce, resentment, and heartbreak.

As parents know, little children are, by their nature, without guile. They speak the thoughts of their minds without reservation or hesitance as we have learned as parents when they embarrass us at times. They do not deceive. They set an example of being without guile.

I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.

Once I'm comfortable with someone, I'm not reserved. I'm a compulsive confessor.

I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job.

Michael Flynn was forced to resign, we are told, because he told a big lie. But what about the little ones?

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

I have a problem keeping my mouth shut. I usually speak my mind. I'm trying to learn my lesson.

When you flip flop your personality and your characters so many times back and forth, people can't trust you. They can't trust a word you say on a promo because last week, they loved you. This week, they're saying, 'Shut up!' And it diminishes your credibility, and when you have credibility with the audience, you're halfway there.

I just try to be authentic and speak from the heart. Sometimes it requires me to shut up and not say anything.

If I feel I am not doing something right, I express it to people and to the media, too. I wouldn't shy away from that. It's healthy to interact. What you see is what you get with me.

I'm a student of Eric Church, and I say that a lot... I was drawn to it because of the honesty and because it's got rough edges on it. He doesn't shy away from anything, and that's the way I wanted to be.

I was shy talking about certain things, and I was shy with being honest because I didn't want people to judge me talking about fatherhood and how somebody should have my child around me.

I think that a man should not be shy; you should say what you really think and feel - put it out there.