Quotes About Honesty

You should be brave. Running away isn't brave. The brave thing, the hard thing is to tell the truth. To face up to whatever it is.

At some point, we'll both have to risk telling the truth.

Go armed with your formidable courage, your passion for truth and your strength of heart.

To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

We must make language accountable to the truths of our experience.

the motivation behind every sentence is the wish to say something real to somebody real.

not his mother, nor did he hesitate to say so.

Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.

I don't think you can worry about what is going to happen with something after that. I think the only thing that you can do is be honest and let the chips fall where they may.

Clinging to one's outward appearance interferes with living.

The essential thing is the truth, not arguments or complaints.

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The lecher in general is like an honest, hardworking investigator who, once aware of a mystery, will go to any length to solve it.

The truth is unpalatable.

Every day I examine myself on three counts: in what I have undertaken on another's behalf, have I failed to do my best? In my dealings with my friends, have I failed to be trustworthy in what I say? Have I passed on to others anything that I have not tried out myself?71

The mouth speaks what the heart has stored.

Don't sell yourself short, young man,' he said sternly. 'These people don't need charisma. They need hard work and the truth- exactly what you've given them. ... Popularity isn't everything. In fact, it isn't anything when you get right down to it. The majority is rarely right.

Fighting lets ye both say wha' needs to be said. Just be sure you fight clean, and dinna bring up old hurts or blame one another.

I'm very happy that you're following your dreams. I've discovered that they fragile things and must be fed if they are to live long enough to turn into reality. There are only two things that will feed a dream: action and honesty. If you are honest enough to face your dream, with all its limitations, and willing to take whatever action is necessary to make up for those limitations, then there is a good chance you will be one of the few to succeed.

You can get lost, pretending to be someone you're not.

Never underestimate the importance of what a woman says in bed. It's one of the few places they will tell you exactly what they are thinking.

It is a foolish man who apologizes without reason.

Pray don't hold back," Robert said politely. "You can tell me what you really think of my valet." Stewart broke in to a reluctant grin."Sorry fer bein' so forward, sir, but that valet o' yers is nothin' but a Frenchified piece o' lace.