Honesty Quotes

If we succumb to fear, we start holding back, and do that all-to-common dance of getting close, then pulling away. When we remember that our safe harbor depends on our awareness and honesty, we're less likely to make internal compromises, put on masks, or act like a chameleon to attract a partner or keep a hurtful relationship together. If we live by truth, we may have pain, but we will always rest securely in ourselves.

~ Charlotte Kasl

To be honest, as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.Hamlet Act II, Scene II Lines 178-179

~ William Shakespeare

It is not important what would you do for your love, what matters is what have you been doing for it.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

He only knows a single thing to clasp, that like God can't be split up into pieces: our honesty to one another.

~ Bryn Hammond

I grew up on magical stories that had me looking around corners for something magical for years. But this isn't just saying a spell or waving a wand. There isn't one evil person leading an army, but a whole other world that wants to invade us with other beings from other realms. And there are only six mages, not an entire hidden subculture to turn to. It just hasn't been what I imagined and I suck at it. –Alex Adams

~ J.m. Briggs

How often in our lives have we withheld the truth from someone we’re supposed to love? We justify it by telling ourselves we’re doing them some kindness, when in reality, we’re just being selfish. We don’t want them to know the truth because if they did, well, they might not love us anymore. How many of us have ever felt that no one would love us if they knew the real us? Love bears all things, the Bible tells us. The truth is, everyone who really loves you can bear the real you.

~ Erin O'riordan

Sincerity is not part of the political vocabulary. If it is used or implied bells should ring

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

One of the secrets a nation can unlock to have material wealth is, having a leader who will take an uncompromising stand to establish truth and honesty as a rule of building the nation

~ Sunday Adelaja

The adult author finds that by inadvertently violating the school's alcohol policy, she breaks down some part of the barrier between her and the younger students who are subject to more rules.

~ Rebekah Nathan

Don't thank me for telling the truth when it would have been mercy to lie to you.

~ Marissa Meyer

In a nutshell, I am not unaware of my failings. Neither am I a stranger to irony.

~ Mordecai Richler

From what I’d witnessed, honesty didn’t really make anyone happy. The truth was a punch to the gut, and while you were falling, a knee to the face, then you could lie on the floor and bleed for a spell.

~ Tanya Thompson

Stolen pleasures are always more thrilling than those come by honestly.

~ Ann Leary

This is not about jealousy. It's all about loyalty, honesty and respect.

~ Pravinee Hurbungs

It's funny, sometimes you learn the most from watching people display their worst.

~ Aliza Licht

Lies can't grow. Once plucked they can only wither. But every truth, once planted, grows into a tall, noble tree. 

~ Stefan Emunds

But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he or she was an absolute shit.

~ Mordecai Richler

Nations, like men, are wary of truth, for truth is too often not beautiful.

~ Addison Gayle Jr.

If a ruler who wants to act honourably is surrounded by unscrupulous men, his downfall is inevitable.

~ C.j. Sansom

To receive the compliments of being a good writer really annoys me, as this has been my perception that a writer as such has no value, it is the readers who invest their thought process, give life to dead words, coupled with their own imagination, thus syncing the content to their tastes and sensibilities, that matter.

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

I think I sense a tone of honesty, if honesty exists in this world.

~ Emilyann Girdner

I scrutinized his face for honesty and then looked away. He was either a lunatic, a really good liar, or he was actually telling the truth.

~ Amy Astorga

She'd never tolerated deception regarding her strong opinions--that much was true. But wasn't it also true that when it came to trying to please in matters that weren't crucial to her, that didn't compromise her sense of things, she had been dishonest?

~ Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera

No matter how unattractive your job is, once you are earning with honesty and dignity you need not care what people think of you in your work uniform.

~ Moolesh.k.dindoyal

I will blame no enemy that is a good man, nor yet praise a friend that is bad

~ Theognis

You can make the world beautiful just by refusing to lie about it.

~ Pleasefindthis

Hollow Horn Bear knew that to be leader and adviser of his people he must be honest and reliable, and that his word once given in promise must never be taken back. He knew that he must be a man of will-power, standing for the right no matter what happened to him personally; that he must have strength of purpose, allowing no influence to turn him from doing what was best for the tribe. He must be willing to serve his people without thought of pay. He must be utterly unselfish and kind-hearted to the old and poor and stand ready to give to those in need. Above all, he must be unafraid to deal equal justice to all.

~ Luther Standing Bear

Never hesitate to tell the truth as you see it.

~ Marty Rubin

The only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons.

~ Carla H. Krueger

Clare's been called a lot of things- smart and funny, driven and talented- but memorable certainly isn't one of them. The most important things about her- the ones she's most proud of- are apparent only once you get to know her.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaTruthful man:He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy.

~ Idries Shah

But for her there was no possibility of a clear conscience, merely the weak absolution of honesty, of confession.She could not buy into the cycle of sin and penance. She would always remember what she had done, and it would always sting. She would not be washed clean.

~ Sonja Yoerg

Sometimes you don't let us talk about how we're feeling. If we feel scared, you say, 'Nothing to worry about, guys,' but that doesn't make it go away. It makes it grow.

~ Melina Marchetta

A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what's being said is the party line.

~ Colin Quinn

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by, and I know right well that any good that intermixed itself with my apprenticeship came of plain contented Joe, and not of restlessly aspiring discontented me.

~ Charles Dickens

Relationships like this are built on honesty and trust. If you don't trust me-trust me to know how I'm affecting you, how far I can go with you, how far I can take you-if you can't be honest with me, then we really can't do this.

~ E.l. James

The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back.

~ Flannery O'connor

Adopting the language of a pretense only serves to ease participation in it.

~ Bartok

Wear your heart on your sleeve. Write about what you think and feel. And share it with your friends.

~ Fennel Hudson

Confessions are meant to reveal universal truths through specific examples.

~ Yishai Schwartz