Quotes About Honesty

We can make detours with our mind but we can't distract the truth from our heart.

You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

You can speak truth to power, . . . but when you speak truth to weakness, weakness gets mad and queasy. It accuses you of its own insecurity.""The Off Season: A Victorian Sequel

Democrasy comes into grave danger when truth is no longer spoken to power.

We know your secret.And we won't be made invisible.

Have the courage to walk in truth, the strength to love always, and the integrity to never stray away from doing so.

They may not like what you have to say, but it is better to express how you feel.

When we are honest about the limitations we are self imposing it becomes necessary to cry out with determination and state you've had enough of the mediocrity of stagnation.

Tell the truth. It's your duty to do so. It's up to them how they take in the information. Keep it real.

Let each man say what he deems truth, and let truth itself be commended unto God.

It is OK to say 'no'.It is OK to say 'I will think about it'.It is OK to say 'I will try'.It is NOT OK to make promises you cannot keep.

If someone tells you that they're called "blueberries" because they're berries and they're blue—believe them.

I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I am a liar.

One must always account for the vagaries of truth.

One absolutely sure way to be fearless is to speak the truth at all time about everything.

The most risky liability of your life is 'the unspoken truth'.

Temporary extreme fear while saying the truth is easy to overcome than the perpetual fear of the unspoken truth.

The cure is as simple as this: Live your words and live your belief system.

Don't trust a mirror that only tells you how wonderful you look.

a crooked truth is far straight than a straight lie

...too often it's only children and old people who speak the truth. You just have to slow down and listen.

And whose fault was it that the boy swallowed down lies, when no one would feed him the truth?

Writing is about truth, whether it be fiction or a school essay. Don't give in and 'fake it till you make it.' Criticize what upsets you.