Quotes About Honesty

Y la verdad es un arma demasiado afilada como para esgrimirla enfadado.

El tiempo, medido en dinero, es la droga más efectiva que existe. La dosificamos de forma cicatera y egoísta para dar la espalda a cualquier mínimo atisbo de sinceridad.

La vida es un don precioso, muchacho. Es lo único que no debes robar jamás.

porque el dolor que produce la verdad es tan agudo que dedicamos una vida entera a evitarlo.

At least Obama was half-way honest about how much he was going to spend on health care. He had it at $600 billion. And the real number... is $1.2 trillion.

I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.

I have striven never to betray myself

But then she often felt like this lately. The world seemed full of transparent frauds that only she could see through. She was forever shouting from the hustings of honesty, though if any honesty were directed at her she ran from it horrified. And she knew it, laughed at herself for it, wretchedly. She was all to pieces.

when everyone is used to being open and honest, then no one will get hurt by such things

she has come to the conclusion that a certain amount of lying, like the priming of a pump, is necessary to keep life going. Absolute honesty would bring everything to a shattering halt.

What I respect about you and what I need from you.

Integrity is what you do when no one is looking. LIVING YOUR YOGA: To practice yoga, telling the truth is not enough. We need to practice not lying. Today live with integrity by not lying to yourself about one important thing in your life.

Graham, with his strong ability to maintain and voice his differences, was the bravest bid she could make to stay tolerant, open to life's diversity, and honest with herself.

As dear Erasmus said in De Civilitate, "It is safe to admit nothing that might embarrass one if repeated." Gossip

A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.

yourself in such a manner?

She recalled her father saying to her, 'My dear Anna, do not forget that a friend who is not willing to risk his very friendship for a friend is perhaps not such a good friend as he thinks he is.

other words, if you want to know the truth about the emperor's clothes, don't ask the tailors.

The truth will make you odd.

What did I owe you, Peter? Truth and justice? If judges would judge, if lawyers wouldn't trick, if reporters would tell what really happened instead of what sold papers. Fat

All along you could have done one thing. One thing simpler than al the rest. You could have told the truth about how you felt. Publicly. You could have stood up and said This is happening and it's wrong.

All along you could have done one thing. One thing simpler than all the rest. You could have told the truth about how you felt. Publicly. You could have stood up and said This is happening and it's wrong.

And a weak person will find it easier to take what someone else has earned rather than risk working hard and achieving something on his own.

If you are to write the truth, you must go beneath the surface into deeper, often darker waters where the light wavers and breathing is a matter of mindfulness.