Honesty Quotes

What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little room to move toward hope.

There is a difference between speaking the truth in love and judging someone hypocritically...make sure you know the difference before you speak!

Freud was not entirely honest with himself when he said, “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise".

With honesty and a little digging, we have the opportunity to identify our gifts and harness them in the service of our best self—our own unique noble purpose.

Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends

Straightforwardness intimidates people. They prefer the veneer, despite what they claim.

Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward — get real with yourself.

Honesty whispers, "Don't get pricked by the thorns of lie.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.

The people who enlighten us are the ones who tell us their secrets.

Can I be trusted? Can you? I can be trusted with some things, but not all things, just like you.

Face the truth about what is standing in the way of your intention.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~

He was a man more concerned with the truth than his arrest quota, a philosophy that would often have him skate on thin ice with the higher ups.

I'm not a poet and I know it.

A tear cringed off his cheek and stained her writing on the paper. He didn’t wipe it, men must be honest and transparent, they should never wipe their tears.

This is what we desire in intimate relationships but this deep connection is often so frightful that most do not take advantage of the opportunities presented for honesty.

When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.

Everything comes by being! Be the love you seek. Be the friend you seek. Be the lover you seek. Be the honesty you seek. Be the integrity you seek.

There is nothing you will ever do that is more important than being honest about who you really are.

Honesty can be a dirty gift. It can muddy a sparkling stream of memories.

Witnessing honesty frightens some people because they haven't known authenticity in their own life.

Here it was, the first of many lies he’d have to come up with. “Bella threw a knife at my head.” He’d do better with the next lie.

Mercy should be given once to a person and it is priceless. This person then should be very honest and should promise not to commit the same particular mistake again.

You are lost because you have not been being honest with yourself, and your life is largely unexamined and unexerted.

The most precious etchings of caring can be traced not in the scope of its message, but in the integrity of its purpose.

Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the honesty she lived in.

If you can look yourself in the mirror at the end of each day, knowing that you did your best, or helped someone out, or took the high road and acted with integrity, then that is an awesome day!

Better by far to live in the truth and know it, however bad it may be, than hide yourself away behind ignorance and habit.

There’s nothing more powerful in “Your Moment of Truth” than people owning their truth, their part in a situation.

Honesty doesn't mean you reveal everything you discern and feel. That is why we have the word discretion...

I have learnt that we expect honesty and genuineness from others, while not being honest and genuine with our own self.

This place has been my home. They liked me here. Not any more. Now they will look the other way. Now I don't belong.

Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable.

When people don’t respect one another seldom is there honesty.

You looked like the girl I loved.

The deception of others is almost always rooted in the deception of ourselves.

Complete honesty is not the same thing as full disclosure.

The judicial wheel is rounded with equality, oiled with honour and functions smoothly with honesty – principally when both members of the Bench and Bar shoulder their responsibilities seriously.

One of life’s ironies is that the more honest and vulnerable you are, the more others try to discredit you as a fraud and a fake. Shut them up by not caring.

I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

Life's to short to spend it fighting when you could be holding the one you love. And love's to rare to squnder it with petty concerns." The Apolloite groom to Rafael

When people communicate deceit, it's called politics. When people communicate honesty, it's called art.

I swear that while I live I will do what little I can to preserve and to augment the liberties of man, woman, and

The most important decision we make is whether to be honestly fake or fake honesty.

It was possible to love life, without loving your life.

I'm probably projecting. I'm a projector. For example: The world is not terrible. I just keep thinking it is.

We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves.

Whatever we sayWe're always telling each other exactly what we want them to know...We are always telling each otherThe truthEven when We're lying

Wagging tongues from prejudiced, sophisticated facade of show-off people can never blemish any honest, genuine, golden heart.