Honesty Quotes

Guilt is a lazy feeling that takes no action, the wings of integrity are the only thing that sets it free.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Communication works best when we combine appropriateness with authenticity, finding that sweet spot where opinions are not brutally honest but delicately honest.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

An honest man speaks truth, don't expect him to speak sweet.

~ Amit Kalantri

An honest man is a debtless man, he doesn't owe anyone anything.

~ Amit Kalantri

Embrace the magical gift of serenity in your daily life. Nothing beats patience, humility, honesty and tranquility.

~ Angelica Hopes

She made him feel guilty at times. The problem was that she was so honest herself, almost transparent. It seemed criminal to be deceiving her.

~ Emily Arden

... honesty is like seeing a crackhead up close: it ain’t that fucking attractive.

~ Eric Jerome Dickey

Life is energy, give others the energy you want to receive from others!

~ Stan The Man Sa

Honesty is the best insurance policy.

~ Brian Spellman

I had the good fortune and opportunity to come home and to tell the truth; many soldiers, like Pat Tillman… did not have that opportunity. The truth of war is not always easy. The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

~ Jessica Lynch

By the river of forgetfulness, I found honesty.

~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It’s having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I can drink all the caffeine I want.

~ Bob Barr

Carry on an undefiled undertaking.

~ Angelica Hopes

We live in a world full of duplicity.We are surrounded by people with duplicitous nature.They will be shooting arrows to question our honesty at every step we make.Therefore,it is our duty to protect ourselves by using our integrity as an armor and march forward, victoriously.

~ Indy Bissessur

You don't have to pretend with me, you know.' He reaches out and tucks a strand of my hair behind my ear. His expression is so open and honest I feel it like a sucker punch. 'I used to pretend, all the time, so I can spot it a mile away. If you're feeling shit, then just say so. I don't need to know the reason, it might be none of my business—' 'I'm feeling shit.

~ Ellie Marney

I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your majesty according to my bond, no more no less.

~ William Shakespeare

I had kissed my share of men, particularly during the war years, when flirtation and instant romance were the light-minded companions of death and uncertainty. Jamie, thought, was something different. His extreme gentleness was in no way tentative; rather it was a promise of power known and held in leash; a challenge and a provocation the more remarkable for its lack of demand. I am yours, it said. And if you will have me, then..

~ Diana Gabaldon

Presidents lie all the time. Really great presidents lie. Abraham Lincoln managed to end slavery in America partially by deception. (In an 1858 debate, he flatly insisted that he had no intention of abolishing slavery in states where it was already legal — he had to say this in order to slow the tide of secession.) Franklin Roosevelt lied about the U.S. position of neutrality until we entered World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor. (Though the public and Congress believed his public pledge of impartiality, he was already working in secret with Winston Churchill and selling arms to France.) Ronald Reagan lied about Iran-Contra so much that it now seems like he was honestly confused. Politically, the practice of lying is essential. By the time the Lewinsky story broke, Clinton had already lied about many, many things. (He’d openly lied about his level of commitment to gay rights during the ’92 campaign.) The presidency is not a job for an honest man. It’s way too complex. If honesty drove the electoral process, Jimmy Carter would have served two terms and the 2008 presidential race would have been a dead heat between Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich.

~ Chuck Klosterman

What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little room to move toward hope.

~ Audre Lorde

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.- Lucullus (Act III, scene 1)

~ William Shakespeare

Freud was not entirely honest with himself when he said, “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

~ A. Cretan

A wise man thus seeks not a straight path, but one that is the shortest or most convenient. The idea is to reach your goal comfortably and quickly rather than wasting your time in finding ‘Which is the straightest path?

~ Awdhesh Singh

With honesty and a little digging, we have the opportunity to identify our gifts and harness them in the service of our best self—our own unique noble purpose.

~ Tom Hayes

I pull back, gasping for breath. Reeling. His breath is ragged, and I place my hands on his cheeks to steady him. Is this okay? I whisper. Are you okay?His reply is anguished. Honest. I love you.

~ Stephanie Perkins

Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Straightforwardness intimidates people. They prefer the veneer, despite what they claim.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward — get real with yourself.

~ Bryant Mcgill

From what I've witness, 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

Honesty whispers, Don't get pricked by the thorns of lie.

~ Angelica Hopes

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.

~ Hafiz

They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of first introducing it into minds which were ignorant of its charms” (Casanova, p.34, Vol 1 Preface).

~ Giacomo Casanova

Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.

~ Thucydides

The people who enlighten us are the ones who tell us their secrets.

~ Marty Rubin

Can I be trusted? Can you? I can be trusted with some things, but not all things, just like you.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Even the oldest trees aren't ashamed to stand naked.

~ Marty Rubin

Face the truth about what is standing in the way of your intention.

~ #Name?

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~

~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Reassuring a jealous woman that you don't want her man creates the bigger beast of resentment because that tells her that what she has isn't desirable and to her, where the opinions of others correlates to her self-worth, is unforgivable.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

She remembered the intensity of her desire to undress him, to be naked with him, the way she felt like she could say whatever she wanted and be fully understood and do whatever she wanted and be totally accepted. She remembered how easy it had all been, how open and bright, like being in a whitewashed room with all the windows wide open.

~ Lisa Jewell

He was a man more concerned with the truth than his arrest quota, a philosophy that would often have him skate on thin ice with the higher ups.

~ Bruce Crown