Honesty Quotes - Page 8

A lie has no power, until you believe it.

Shannon L. Alder

Truth is like a bright full moon in a dark country sky. Powerful, bright and undeniable. Lies are like clouds that continually try to cover that moon. Sometimes they might be able to cover the moon, but only temporarily. The truth will always outshine the clouds.

Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.

I want a world where hearts are not deceived and do not deceive others.

The rule is easy to understand.Be simple, honest & smart.

Prince Akwarandu

Tell the truth about any situation & you are delivered from lack of progress, but become hypocritical or lying, and you may be in bondage for life.

Auliq-Ice

I resent being lied to because a lie doesn't only undermine the value of the truth, but it further denies the liar a fair chance for honesty.

Gugu Mona

Courtrooms are battlegrounds where society’s bullies and the oppressed clash, where the victims of abusers seek recompense, and where parties cheated by scalawags seek retribution. Because of the high stakes involved, the parties are not always honest, and justice depends upon an array of factors including the prevailing case precedent, the skills of the legal advocates, and the merits of each party’s claims and counterclaims.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Honesty is my true nature, but if people wants to use it that is their nature. - Abhinav Rajput

Be wary of smooth talkers. Words are rarely at your disposal if something is wholly, truly, completely true.

Look innocent. Have hope.” “Okay.” “And remember…” “What?” “Even O.J. Simpson was acquitted.

You cannot weave the truth from a string of lies

half truths equal whole lies

A partial truth is the most common path to an entire lie.

It's shameful for a devil to be good.

Ljupka Cvetanova

When someone apologizes to you, be sure you know whether they’re sorry, or just scared.

As far as I know, I'm the most honest person I’ve met in this life.

Pat R

Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal of understanding how the world works. It is for this reason that playing fast and loose with the truth is a very serious matter.

I have learned to accept the fact that I will make mistakes at nearly every turn, but that those mistakes can be softened if I am honest about who I am to my girls.

Liane Holliday Willey

The more honest you are, the more open, the less fear you will have, because there's no anxiety about being exposed or revealed to others.

Truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it,

Emily Dickinson

In a world in which everyone cheats, it's the honest man who passes for a charlatan.

Love is being able to talk to someone else without effort, without hiding, and at the same time to feel absolutely comfortable not saying a word. At least that's one way I've figured out hot to describe love.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

I had no jealousy of work, no jealousy of money. I was just jealous of women who took advantage of men, because I didn't know how to do it.

Mother Nature moves in sunshine and storms... I am her child.

Rachel M. Walls

I suppose one has to be desperate, to be a successful writer. One has to reach a rock-bottom at which one can afford to let everything go hang. One has got to damn the public, chance one's living, say what one thinks, and be oneself. Then something may come out.

I have learned that if you have something to say, say it regardless, no matter what the outcome is, it will serve you, eventually.

Am I too blunt? If the truth is too hard to swallow, should I feed you soft lies?

Edward W. Robertson

I wanted more than anything to be something I will never be - feminine, and feminine in the worst way. Submissive. Dependent. Soft spoken. Coquettish. I was no good at all at any of it, no good at being a girl; on the other hand, I am not half bad at being a woman.

Truth speaks for itself if we’d just let it speak.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Optimism is like a firefly. A bright blaze of hope, unable to be captured.

That's how it's always been: I was always in the clear so long as I was truly guilty. But the minute my motives were honest someone would finger me.

Lies aren't true, so why would anyone tell them?

Brian Clevinger

When you open yourself up to people, you show them where to put the knife in.

Bryan Way

Such is the power of truth that even the slightest whisper of it can handily drown out the most boisterous of lies, which may explain why in many instances God only needs to whisper.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

He hadn't woken a day since my death when the day wasn’t something to get through. But the truth was, the memorial service day was not the worst kind. At least it was honest. At least it was a day shaped around what they were so preoccupied by: my absence. Today he would not have to pretend he was getting back to normal—whatever normal was.

If teams had to name themselves honestly, they’d all be the Pimple-Faced Teenagers.

All the same, writing honestly is very difficult. The more I try to be honest, the farther my words sink into darkness.

Haruki Murakami

What will a man gain by winning the whole world, at the cost of his true self?

Jesus

All I am saying is that when you really, really like someone, when you feel like they’re the only person you want to see at the end of a long day, when you’ve really gotten to know them and you feel like they’ve gotten to know you, ask them. When you’re no longer interested in pursuing other relationships and other people, or when you’re ready to focus your attention on one person, or when you feel like you can’t stop smiling because this person sparked something within you, ask.

Honesty is easier when you have no face and no real name. And honesty, for me, is very easy on paper.

It is praiseworth to be open and honest, but you must be very discriminating on where and with whom you apply that most sacred virtue.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Reflect who you truly are even when people try to tempt you to reflect the wrong image of yourself.

Cyc Jouzy

Honesty is the best Policy is the Capitalistic thought as it gives free of cost Security to their assets and to their investments........

In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric. He must believe his ends to be served all things and people can justifiably be shifted about, or that he is the center not only of his own world but of the worlds which others inhabit.

Elliot had always thought that touch was the most intimate way a man and a woman could connect. A kiss. A hand across the base of the neck or a brush of fingertips against the small of the back. But if his thundering heart gave any indication, the moment of honesty Wren had shared in that single look made the air crackle with tension, of the kind he'd never known before.

Honesty and integrity are the yardsticks by which we measure our intrinsic value.

We all should practice to tell the truth and keep our promises, rather than trying to calculate possible pleasures, pains, and outcomes of our sayings in certain circumstances. Because we know that in general telling the truth and keeping promises will result in more happiness than lying and breaking promises.

Prabidh

Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing the pleasant and reasonable side of his nature.

Honesty is the only way to fight the inner demons.

Seth Adam Smith

To admit what you see endangers principles.

Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing to pleasant and reasonable side of his nature.

Your lies tells me as much about you, as do your truths.

If you want to be a thought leader, market leader, or change the world - you have to give up the need to be liked. Telling people what they want to hear makes you popular. Telling people what they need to hear makes you relevant, empowering, and significant.Don't pander to the masses. Speak to the people you really want to reach and be honest. Challenge them to do more and become better. And know that if you're not attracting some haters - you're probably not doing something significant.

Keep your honesty as earth inside.Keep your focus as fire inside.Keep your determination as water inside.Keep your passion as blood inside.Most importantly keep love as it transcends all.At last keep your calm and winning is all yours. Embrace it!!!

As I stood in front of the mirror in the beautiful little black dress, I knew that I was looking at a woman whom I would never see again. I wished I had never seen her in the first place, but the truth is she had always been there. I was being dishonest to myself by pretending that she hadn't.

Be honest first with yourself before with others since that changes the world.

[If a man] postpone[s] any open acknowledgement... that his own faith is in direct opposition to the assumptions on which all the conversation of his new friends [are] based... he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak and laugh when he ought to be silent. He will assume, at first only by his manner, but presently by his words, all sorts of cynical and sceptical attitudes which are not really his. But... they may become his. All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.

Always tell the truth –– or the truth will tell on you. Honest.

Frank Sonnenberg

People might say that they liked honesty, but they didn’t, really.

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