Honesty Quotes - Page 11

This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.

Nothing worth doing is easy," frank said. "Especially not in the beginning. But I'm not about to give up.

And Father said, "Christopher, do you understand that I love you?"And I said "Yes," because loving someone is helping them when they get into trouble, and looking after them, and telling them the truth, and Father looks after me when I get into trouble, like coming to the police station, and he looks after me by cooking meals for me, and he always tells me the truth, which means that he loves me.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’m a liar and a cheat and a coward, but I will never, ever, let a friend down. Unless of course not letting them down requires honesty, fair play, or bravery.

To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.

She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth.

Kristin Cashore

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Barbara Kingsolver

When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!

Agatha Christie

Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.

Ludwig van Beethoven

And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.

When we turn around & come face to face with our destiny, we discover that words (spoken) are not enough. I know so many people who are brilliant speakers but are quite incapable of practising what they preach. It's one thing to describe a situation & quite another to experience it. I realised a long time ago that a warrior in search of his dream must take his inspiration from what he actually does & not from what he imagines himself doing.

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

Being nice merely to be liked in return nullifies the point.

Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

William Shakespeare

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Marcus Aurelius

You cannot con an honest man.

There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.

Honesty is always good, except when it's better to lie.

James Patterson

Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.

Catherynne M. Valente

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Dr. Seuss

NO reader has ANY obligation to an author, whether it be to leave a review or to write a "constructive" one. I put out a product. You are consumers of that product. Since when does that mean you have to kiss my ass? Hey, I like Pop-Tarts and eat them a few times a year; since when does that mean I'm obligated to support Kellogg's in any way except legally purchasing the Pop-Tarts before I eat them? I wasn't aware that purchasing and consuming a product meant I was under some sort of fucking thrall in which I'm only allowed to either praise the Pop-Tart (which to be honest isn't hard, especially the S'mores flavor) or, if I am going to criticize a flavor, offer a specific and detailed analysis as to why, phrased in as inoffensive and gentle a manner as possible so as not to upset the gentle people at Kello

There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Tennessee Williams

Am I glowing?""Like a Christmas tree.""Not just the star?"The bed moved a little, and I felt his hand brush my arm. "No. You're super bright. It's kind of like looking at the sun.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

The best men tell you the truth because they think you can take it; the worst men either try to preserve you in some innocent state with their false protection, or are ‘brutally honest.’ When someone tells, lets you think for yourself, experience your own emotions, he is treating you as a true equal, a friend…And the best men cook for you.

Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

William Faulkner

All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

William Shakespeare

The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Norman Vincent Peale

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

William Shakespeare

The only time you seem honest is when you’re insulting someone!”“The only honest things I can say to you are insults.

Brandon Sanderson

Yeah, it never fails to amaze me how a single lie can undo an entire lifetime of good. (Aiden)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

Thomas Jefferson

Never separate the life you lead from the words you speak.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

Khaled Hosseini

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters

Albert Einstein

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Charles Dickens

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.

Barbara De Angelis

If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kr

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

The answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean... Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.

if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

Spencer Johnson

Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?

The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask.

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