Quotes About Honesty

One day, you will say it to me again. You will be sober. And you will mean it.

What's this shit?" Ray demanded, looking at the salesclerk. "Honey, truth hurts, but ain't no way you're a Magnum." "Well, I ain't no medium!" The clerk smiled. "Yeah, but I was being generous.

If every time you call him you simply get his voice mail, and every time he calls you he wants to come over and "chill" at your place -- admit it; you're just a jump-off.

I honestly can't believe how people can think they can do dirt and not get dirty. And for those slinging mud ...take a look at your hands.

We must find the fulcrum — the pivot point that balances gentle honesty with hard truth enveloped in love.

May you speak the truth from a loving heart. May your tongue utter no slander. May you do no wrong to a neighbor and cast no slurs. May you weigh your words carefully and keep your oaths. And may you never be shaken.

Our words are powerful, and they have consequences. Whether it is a string of words screamed out in anger during the height of a marital spat, or a politician who chooses to lie in order to win votes, or even just a middle schooler trying to impress a group of boys. Our words are powerful, and our words have consequences.

Lovers of words have no place where honest work must be done.

Don't waste time trying to change your anger into something that makes you likable; you will only wind up disliking yourself. Write your rage, paint it, film it, dance it, lyricize it, poeticize it. You don't have to be good, just honest.

To pass the barrier, you have to drop your ambivalence and cynicism. Your clever self-deceptions, excuses, and ulterior motives. You have to be ready, even desperate, before you propel yourself beyond your own fear.

When you can face reality without camouflage, yours is the face of compassion. What a sight for sore eyes!

It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.

I have your word?" "You trust my word?" "You're an idealistic fool. Of course.

Silver eyes met hers and locked. "I didn't like Dani." "At least you're consistent," she said coolly. His silver eyes were ice. "I loved her.

Dishonesty increases disorder exponentially. It's hard enough to communicate when you're telling the truth.

Mom raised us to believe that every lie puts something out there in the world that's inevitably going to come back and bite you in the petunia.

I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.

See things for what they are. Drop your blinders and raise the sewer to eye level. Admit that your swimming in shit. If you don't acknowledge the turd heading down the drain towards you; you can't dodge it.

Words are easy; lies as simple as parting your lips and breathing.

Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.

As he closed the door he said over his shoulder, "Because you're a good lass." A heavy sigh. "And I'm no' a good man.

If you already know the answer, Ms. Lane, don't waste my time. You just wasted a month of it." -Barrons

Lies are horny little buggers, they breed like rabbits and bound around just as insanely and then you have to try to keep track of them.

You can't change an unpleasant reality if you won't acknowledge it, Mac. You can only control what you're willing to face. Truth hurts. But lies can kill.