Honesty Quotes

A tear cringed off his cheek and stained her writing on the paper. He didn’t wipe it, men must be honest and transparent, they should never wipe their tears.

~ Bruce Crown

If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.

~ William Hurrell Mallock

This is what we desire in intimate relationships but this deep connection is often so frightful that most do not take advantage of the opportunities presented for honesty.

~ David W. Earle

The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no wisdom in it.

~ Criss Jami

When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Everything comes by being! Be the love you seek. Be the friend you seek. Be the lover you seek. Be the honesty you seek. Be the integrity you seek.

~ Bryant Mcgill

For every group, malevolence is always somewhere else. Maybe we understand at this point in history that it can occur at night in darkened rooms where small children sleep. However, surely not in academia. Surely lying and deception do not occur among people who go to conferences, who write books, who testify in court, and who have PhDs.At one point I complained to a Florida judge that I was astonished to an expert witness lying on the stand [about child sexual abuse research]. I thought one had to tell the truth in court. I thought if someone didn't, she didn't get her milk and cookies. I thought God came down and plucked someone right out of the witness stand if he lied in court. I thought a lying expert witness would step out of court and get hit by a bus. A wiser woman than I, the judge's answer was, “Silly you.Confessions of a Whistle-Blower: Lessons Learned Author: Anna C. Salter. Ethics & Behavior, Volume 8, Issue 2 June 1998

~ Anna C. Salter

Sure I find it very liberating and empowering now; but at first, it took me a while to get used to the uncomfortably vulnerable feeling that comes along with being honest.

~ Steve Maraboli

There is nothing you will ever do that is more important than being honest about who you really are.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Honesty can be a dirty gift. It can muddy a sparkling stream of memories.

~ Colin Cotterill

If you're not honest with your work — if you're being merely decorative — then the world will know. People intuit honest work. They know when they are being tricked by clever metaphors . . . by dishonesty in the artist.

~ Michele Zackheim

Witnessing honesty frightens some people because they haven't known authenticity in their own life.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Here it was, the first of many lies he’d have to come up with. “Bella threw a knife at my head.” He’d do better with the next lie.

~ Nicole Castle

More than one thing is never true. People love to say the opposite, love to talk about inner conflict, nuances, levels of complication. But if this last year has taught her anything, it has taught her that people are clearer on what they want than they admit to themselves. They want something, or they don’t. They decide to keep working at a relationship or they give up. They love someone or they love someone else. And if they love someone else, it is often the idea that they love most, especially when they haven’t learned enough to figure out that this new person probably won’t save them either.

~ Laura Dave

Mercy should be given once to a person and it is priceless. This person then should be very honest and should promise not to commit the same particular mistake again.

~ Saaif Alam

You are lost because you have not been being honest with yourself, and your life is largely unexamined and unexerted.

~ Bryant Mcgill

When you don’t have honesty in love then there is no communication. Honesty is improvisation of the heart, anything less is a well thought out and rehearsed script.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I'm an old man now. Old on the inside. I'm a drunk, and I hate to tell you, but I'm not prepared to change. So you have to figure out if you want to forgive me and love me like I am, or run away again. Or hell, stay here and hate me. Just...know that I love you the best way I know how. I always have. I do the best I can.

~ Suzanne Palmieri

The most precious etchings of caring can be traced not in the scope of its message, but in the integrity of its purpose.

~ Johnathan Jena

Whatever you tell; lie or truth, can both destroy or save you.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the honesty she lived in.

~ Émile Zola

If you can look yourself in the mirror at the end of each day, knowing that you did your best, or helped someone out, or took the high road and acted with integrity, then that is an awesome day!

~ Beth Ramsay

Better by far to live in the truth and know it, however bad it may be, than hide yourself away behind ignorance and habit.

~ Owen Sheers

There’s nothing more powerful in “Your Moment of Truth” than people owning their truth, their part in a situation.

~ Lou Bergholz

Honesty doesn't mean you reveal everything you discern and feel. That is why we have the word discretion...

~ Assegid Habtewold

I have learnt that we expect honesty and genuineness from others, while not being honest and genuine with our own self.

~ Aisha Mirza

This place has been my home. They liked me here. Not any more. Now they will look the other way. Now I don't belong.

~ David Millar

You’ve one mark on your record,” Tamas said. “You once punched a na-baron in the face. Broke his jaw. Tell me about that.”Olem grimaced. “Officially, sir, I was pushing him out of the way of a runaway carriage. Saved his life. Half my company saw it.”“With your fist?”“Aye.”“And unofficially?”“The man was a git. He shot my dog because it startled his horse.”“And if I ever have cause to shoot your dog?”“I’ll punch you in the face.”“Fair enough. You have the job.

~ Brian Mcclellan

Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When people don’t respect one another seldom is there honesty.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Has that obscenely rich fucker upset you again?

~ E.l. James

You looked like the girl I loved.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Sorry, but I have to be who I am. Everyone else is taken... So be your self! Speak your truth - if there are people around you who tempt you with non-existence blast through that and give them the full glory of who you are. Do not withhold yourself from the world. Do not piss on the incandescent gift of your existence. Do not drown yourself in the petty fog and dustiness of other people's ancient superstitions, unbeliefs, aggressions, culture and crap! No! Be a flare! We were born that way. Born perfectly happy being inconvenient to our parents. We shit, piss, cry, wake up at night, throw up on their shoulders, scream... We are, in essence, in our humanity, perfectly comfortable with inconveniencing others. That's how we're born, how we grow and develop. I choose to inconvenience the irrational.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life … all areas of life.

~ Zig Ziglar

Complete honesty is not the same thing as full disclosure.

~ Ron Brackin

Honesty is not the same as truth. That is the obstacle of the notion of relative truths. I would like to put my trust in the lunatic. He is the one least concerned of what I think of him, the mark of an honest man. I can always depend on him to be completely honest in what he thinks and feels, about anything, no matter the consequences laid before him, however with no course of rationale, I cannot necessarily take his word for even the well-being of him in his own reality.

~ Criss Jami

The judicial wheel is rounded with equality, oiled with honour and functions smoothly with honesty – principally when both members of the Bench and Bar shoulder their responsibilities seriously.

~ Munindra Misra

I was brought up to be honest; the trouble is it gets me nowhere. Liking her better, he smiled and said, It'll get us to heaven. Will it? If heaven existed. Do you not believe in heaven, Mr. Fielding, may I ask? she said, looking at him shyly. I do not. Yet I believe that honesty gets us there.

~ E.m. Forster

One of life’s ironies is that the more honest and vulnerable you are, the more others try to discredit you as a fraud and a fake. Shut them up by not caring.

~ Dan Pearce

I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

~ Tennessee Williams