Quotes About Honesty

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.

I don't understand the whole dating thing. I know right off the bat if I'm interested in someone, and I don't want them to waste their money on me and take me out to eat if I know I'm not interested in that person.

I dress the way I want. I don`t pretend to be someone I`m not.

I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.

Sometimes you have to tell the truth about some of the stuff you've done so that people will believe you when you tell them the truth about other stuff you haven't done.

But she didn't ask, and so I added, "You let her believe you were looking for him." Still, my aunt didn't respond. "You lied to her." "I let her lie to herself," Aunt Beatrice corrected. "Which is what you do, Calvin, when you don't want someone you care about to know the truth.

Did you have sex with me because you wanted to or because you wanted something from me?" "Both," she said immediately, and I know now that she was telling the truth, that she was done lying to me, although at that moment I wasn't yet ready to believe her. "I don't believe you," I said.

It was only after Caroline had admitted lying to me, and only after she'd made me admit that I'd lied to her, were we both fully ready to believe each other. To quote John Calvin one last time, "Not that they may believe against their wills (which would be impossible), but that they may be made willing to believe who were before unwilling to believe.

A house built on lies has a weak foundation.

wanted, a pretty lie, and they believed, because a pretty lie is easier to believe than an ugly truth.

Affectation, or coldness, or stupid, coarse-minded misapprehension of one's meaning are the usual rewards of candour.

Dating is really hard because everyone puts on a front. It's really difficult to see who is who, so it is important to be yourself.

Pretending to be cool is exhausting. Yelling

we ought to act with GOD in the greatest simplicity, speaking to Him frankly and plainly, and imploring His assistance in our affairs, just as they happen. That GOD never failed to grant it, as he had often experienced.

It is better to be divided by truth than united in error.

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?

You must realize that the true desire to express affection can be motivated by things other than true love.... In short, one might simply say: save your kisses--you might need them someday. And when anyof you--men and women--are given entrance to the heart of a trusting young friend, you stand on holy ground. In such a place you must be honest with yourself--and with your friend--about love and the expression of it's symbols.

The commander spoke to them as he always did, with sincerity and determination, but without theatrics.

It is not unusual for children to be deceptive or withholding or to purposefully lie in order to avoid things they don't want to share, especially when they have been instructed to do so by their families. However, it is far more difficult for them to hide their true thoughts and feelings in their artwork.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.