Honesty Quotes
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Honesty Quotes & Sayings
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Friends,' said Laurent, 'Is that what we are?'[ ... ]
Damen said, with helpless honesty, 'Laurent, I am your slave. — C.S. Pacat
Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.
— David Whyte
I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways.
— Kiese Laymon
Honesty.Sobriety.
My virginity.
No way to regain
the first two, I almost
gave away the last. — Ellen Hopkins
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Don't be afraid to make people mad. Your honesty will inspire your true followers. I piss off tons of people every day.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.
— James Oliver
The veil of self-indulgence was rent from head to foot. I saw my life as a whole.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
It is not important what would you do for your love, what matters is what have you been doing for it.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaTruthful man:
He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy. — Idries Shah
Honesty is admired, and starves.
— Juvenal
Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?
— William Shakespeare
For rock solid friendship, never lie to your friends.
— Saru Singhal
To be happy, pursue your purpose with love and honesty.
— Debasish Mridha
Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.
— David A. Bednar
Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.Good things come to those who wait. — Jess C. Scott
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
— Stephen Covey
I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.
— Henry Van Dyke
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
— George Washington
The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
— Criss Jami
Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.
— Catherynne M Valente
How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.
— Edward Benson
To be direct and honest is not safe.
— William Shakespeare
Honesty is always good, except when it's better to lie.
— James Patterson
I respect those who say that the United States should simply withdraw from the Middle East, but I don't respect them for anything but their honesty.
— Christopher Hitchens
Honesty is such a nasty habit, dear. Like biting your nails.
— Catherynne M Valente
Power does not corrupt; it merely elevates the degree in which something is done that has already been pursued.
— Felix O. Hartmann
Oh honey, have you learned nothing from these plays? Ain't such a line between faking and being.
— Gayle Forman
I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
— Jessamyn West
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
— William Faulkner
Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.
— Mary Pipher
What a fool honesty is.
— William Shakespeare
In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth is never dressed for the occasion.
— Steve Maraboli
When rogues fall out, honest men get into their own.
— Matthew Hale
Truth is a fundamental principle that is needed for any form of building or construction. So also is honesty.
— Sunday Adelaja
In the end, there's only one thing you can believe. Bodies are honest; they don't lie.
— Megan Chance
Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy
— William Paul Young
When people communicate deceit, it's called politics. When people communicate honesty, it's called art.
— Gerard De Marigny
I didn't come up with the lie. It wasn't mine. They handed the lie to me, and I tried like hell to make it work for a while.
— Kenneth Logan
Deanna's job (as counselor) is to keep us from deluding ourselves.
— Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide Team
Lies are like paper-Mache in a rain storm.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.
— Beck Bennett
I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your majesty according to my bond; no more no less.
— William Shakespeare
Honesty that can be trusted and respected is a very fragrant flower in the life of a Christian.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
Am I too blunt? If the truth is too hard to swallow, should I feed you soft lies?
— Edward W. Robertson
I think my family love each other so much and expect so much from each other, and I think we expect a type of honesty in the work that we all do.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
Honesty is the best policy. But insanity is a hell of a lot more effective in court. So your set, McMullen
— Lois Greiman
The smart employer looks not for perfection but for an explanation of how the consequences of a dishonorable act affected the candidate and others.
— Bruce Weinstein
Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty.
— Russell Baker
I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.
— Alison Krauss
The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.
— Chuck Palahniuk
First Embody the Emptiness of SilenceNext Embody the Fullness of Honesty & Love
Thus Be Heaven
Sage Hope (Omid Mankoo) SH ... — Omid Mankoo
It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.
— William Shenstone
She asked if I loved another woman, so I answered honestly and said, Dinner was great, but I could go for dessert.
— Dark Jar Tin Zoo
Just always be honest about your feelings. If everyone did that then the world would be a much simpler place.
— Kiki Archer
I think, in all honesty, the first place that someone in emotional distress should turn is their loved ones, and then to use professionals ...
— Peter Kinderman
Trust is learning how you feel about yourself,not how others feel about you.
Do you trust how you feel.
If not, why. — Ron W. Rathbun
The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
— Samuel Johnson
The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
— George Oppen
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
— Marcel Proust
The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.
— David Halberstam
Tim Curley and Gary Schultz operate at the highest levels of honesty, integrity and compassion.
— Graham Spanier
What matters most is not 'what' you are, but 'who' you are.
— DaShanne Stokes
Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting.
— Tom Stoppard
I want to say to you: Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty.
— John Patrick Shanley
It's better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar
— Christopher Paolini
Honesty is the best policy.
— Benjamin Franklin
I like the honesty of standup comedy. People don't fake laugh. If they're truly laughing at you, you know they like you.
— Brian Regan
Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.
— Terry Goodkind
But do we know how to make love stay?'I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day. — Tom Robbins
We are only as sick as our secrets.
— Rob Bell
The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.
— Andy Williams
