Honesty Quotes

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

~ Hermann Hesse

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

~ Mekael Shane

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.

~ Randy Gage

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.

~ Jane L. Rosen

[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.

~ C.s. Lewis

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.

~ Sonal Panse

The truth is not what it seems, but what it is.

~ Frank Sonnenberg

Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected. But the one lied to almost never shares this view. The moment we consider our dishonesty from the point of view of those we lie to, we recognize that we would feel betrayed if the roles were reversed.

~ Sam Harris

A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards...in order to appeal to the irrationality, dishonesty or stupidity of others.

~ Ayn Rand

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.

~ Nora Ephron

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.

~ T.h. White

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

~ Abeer Allan

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.

~ Nora Ephron

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.

~ Megan Jenna

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.

~ Nelson Algren

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.

~ Alice Sebold

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

~ Eric Berlin

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.

~ Kim Quindlen

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

~ Katherine Reay

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

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

~ Naguib Mahfouz

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

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

~ Joyce Rachelle

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

~ Kenneth Eade

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

~ Fred Munoz

Honesty is too strong a drink to be unwatered all the time, rather it should be given in doses.

~ Richard Sapir

It's shameful for a devil to be good.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova