Quotes About Honesty

Fun tip: Being told 'I kept you in the dark to protect you' is not only frustrating, but condescending as well. It's a truly economical way to demean someone; if you're looking to fit more denigration into an already busy schedule, give it a try.

Do not treat me in this fashion. Don't leave me out. Have I not Always spoken the truth in my books? And now You treat me like a liar! I order you: Burn me!

Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.

People who wade into discomfort and vulnerability and tell the truth about their stories are the real badasses.

Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.

We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we're willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives, we will never change. Never, ever.

When we pretend that we can avoid vulnerability we engage in behaviors that are often inconsistent with who we want to be.

Feeding people half-truths or bullshit to make them feel better (which is almost always about making ourselves feel more comfortable) is unkind

Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language — it's from the Latin word cor, meaning heart — and the original definition was to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.

Communicating our expectations is brave and vulnerable. And it builds meaningful connection and often leads to having a partner or friend who we can reality-check with.

Vulnerability is the last thing I want you to see in me, but the first thing I look for in you.

Lying is a defiance of the truth. Bullshitting is a wholesale dismissal of the truth.

Very few people can handle being held accountable without rationalizing, blaming, or shutting down;

It's crazy how much energy we spend trying to avoid these hard topics when they're really the only ones that can set us free.

We want to be part of something, but we need it to be real - not conditional or fake or constantly up for negotiation.

We like recovery stories to move quickly through the dark so we can get to the sweeping redemptive ending. I worry that this lack of honest accounts of overcoming adversity has created a Gilded Age of Failure.

I believe that what we regret most are our failures of courage, whether it's the courage to be kinder, to show up, to say how we feel, to set boundaries, to be good to ourselves. For that reason, regret can be the birthplace of empathy.

Vulnerability is not weakness; it's our greatest measure of courage.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.

It's simple but transformative: Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind.

Confabulation has a really great and subtle definition: a Confabulation is a lie told honestly. To confabulate is to replace missing information with something false that we believe to be true.

Feeding people half-truths or bullshit to make them feel better (which is almost always about making ourselves feel more comfortable) is unkind. Not getting clear with a colleague about your expectations because it feels too hard, yet holding them accountable or blaming them for not delivering is unkind. Talking about people rather than to them is unkind.

The simple and honest process of letting people know that discomfort is normal, it's going to happen, why it happens, and why it's important, reduces anxiety, fear, and shame. Periods

Our rational, grown-up selves are good liars. The five-year-old tyrants within us are the ones who can tell it like it is.