Quotes About Honesty

The truth hurts but a lie will eventually as well

I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie.

To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows is true.

The truth shall your soul free.

How can the truth make anything worse?

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.

Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves.

Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.

Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

People don't want to hear the truth, they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. And then when they get caught up in it, they start being in denial because they don't want to be wrong.

Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.

You can't demand truth and reconciliation. You have to demand truth - people have to hear it, and then they have to want to reconcile themselves to that truth.

A friend tells you what you want to hear;a best friend tells you the truth.

The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.

Consider what you want to do in relation to what you are capable of doing. Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity.

No matter what it is, I think people want the answer they want, they don't want the truth.

My girlfriend wants an open relationship. I said no way. What kind of man would I be if I had to tell my friends I date you?

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth