Quotes About Honesty

The greatest enemy to fear is truth."

Your fear of the truth does not hide or dilute it."

There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I wouldn't stand for that.

I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.

I would assign every lie a color: yellow when they were innocent, pale blue when they sailed over you like the sky, red because I knew they drew blood. And then there was the black lie. That's the worst of all. A black lie was when I told you the truth.

Frankly, it's easy to fall into the trap of lying to ourselves about a negative routine. You might think an action (like drinking) is an innocent thing that "sometimes" gets out of control. However, the people around you might have a different opinion. Perhaps they feel this habit is the sign of a deep-seated addiction that needs immediate attention.

Everybody cheats. I just didn't know.

As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

It has long been said that the three hardest words to say in the English language are I love you. We heartily disagree! For most people, it is much harder to say I don't know.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. —Lyman Beecher

Is there anything more worthless than excuses? -Emperor Kellanved

As if the only genuine gestures were the small ones, the ones devoid of an audience. As if true honesty belonged to solitude, since to be witnessed was to perform, and performance was inherently false since it invited expectation.

Precision is a precise art. Poignancy is pre-eminent and precludes prevarication.

He is strong enough to stand exposed, revealing all that is vulnerable within him. He is brave enough to invite you ever closer. If you hurt him, he will withdraw, as he must, and that path to him will be thereafter for ever sealed. But he begins with the gift of himself. What the other does with it defines the future of that particular relationship.

But the world had its layers. To the simple it offered simplicity. To the wise it offered profundity. And the only measure of courage worth acknowledging was found in accepting where one stood in that scheme—in hard, unwavering honesty, no matter how humbling.

Consider this a warning. Liars will lie, and continue to do so, even beyond being caught out. They will lie, and in time, such liars will convince themselves, will in all self-righteousness divest the liars of culpability.

I cannot help what I am – and that is the first lie, the one I uttered to myself long ago.

So much for the myth that motherhood is all Laura Ashley smocks and skipping through fields. People think it's rose-tinted and they don't tell the truth!

My mom is the all-seeing eye in the sky. And she definitely doesn't lie. She knows exactly what I'm doing right or wrong, because she taught me everything I know.

The defense to slander is the truth, and sometimes the truth hurts.

I'm not on a slander campaign to ruin Jon Jones publicly. That's not what I set out to do.

Also I just think I've been lucky enough to have great parents, and I've had good people around me who have always been honest with me, who would give me a purely metaphorical slap if I ever got too big for my boots.

I think fans can tell if you just slap a skateboarder on a game - you can't fool kids.

Being married to a fellow northerner helps - he's got to keep it real or his mum would soon slap him into place.