Quotes About Honesty

One of the commitments I made to myself when I decided to write a book was to be brutally honest, particularly about myself.

We don't want our MPs to become greedy like those of other parties.

I don't attend costume parties.

As women, we're trying to be the best mothers and partners and have careers. We're trying to do so much. It's okay to say to other women, 'How do you do this?' Because I honestly don't know. The more we are honest, the more you realize we're all just trying to figure this out.

In any relationship, only if both partners bring in emotional, financial commitment and honesty in equal measure, can there be harmony.

It's scary what you see out there. People are in marriages and still doing their own things on the side. They don't respect their partners enough and don't hold onto relationships the way it was in the past.

Of all the myriad ways we define love, there is perhaps none more honest and powerful than this: Great love is rooted in great partnership.

People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.

Congress is hiding the details of their party president Rahul Gandhi's citizenship. Rahul Gandhi's real name is Rahul Vincy. They are cheating people by hiding the real names of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

I'm not someone who plays hard to get. This whole thing about 'Oh, let's exchange numbers' and then people wait four or five days before they call you? I don't see the point. If you feel something, why would you let that pass? You only live once.

Parents have no greater responsibility in this world than the bringing up of their children in the right way, and they will have no greater satisfaction as the years pass than to see those children grow in integrity and honesty and make something of their lives.

I've never tried to pass myself off as anything more than a comedian who wrote a dating book.

Galatians 1:10 is my favorite passage.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

English footballers are honest - they will run for 90-odd minutes - but that is not always what you need. Sometimes you need to rein back a bit and try and control the game with your passing.

Most people are sincere, because this is the easiest course to take psychologically.

It takes as much time and trouble to pull down a falsehood as to build up a truth.

A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.

I told him he wasn't my friend. Before he could protest I said that real friends don't wake up other friends in the middle of the night for money for drugs. (Even as I said it I thought of at least half a dozen occasions when that has happened to me, but that wasn't the point.)

Truth has to be a little ruthless. Otherwise it gets softened. Diluted. Changed from what people need to hear to what they want to hear.

We delude ourselves that we want to implant honesty in our children: what we really want is to imbue them with our particular kind of dishonesty, with our culture's dishonesty. —Sidney Harris

Every time I make an assumption about someone who has hurt or disappointed me without confirming it, I believe a lie about this person in my head. This assumption is a misrepresentation of reality. Because I have not checked it out with the other person, it is very possible I am believing something untrue. It is also likely I will pass that false assumption around to others.

In neglecting our intense emotions, we are false to ourselves and lose a wonderful opportunity to know God. We forget that change comes through brutal honesty and vulnerability before God.

You can't have the true peace of Christ's kingdom with lies and pretense.