Truthful Quotes

Integrity is doing what is right and truthful, and doing as you say you would do.

~ Roy T. Bennett

An open Facebook page is simply a psychiatric dry erase board that screams, “Look at me. I am insecure. I need your reaction to what I am doing, but you’re not cool enough to be my friend. Therefore, I will just pray you see this because the approval of God is not all I need.

~ Shannon L. Alder

All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.

~ Carrie Vaughn

There is nothing more pure and beautiful than a person who always speaks truthfully with a childlike heart.

~ Suzy Kassem

If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to it.

~ Suzy Kassem

It is better to be divided by truth than united in error.

~ Bruce Bickel

Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

~ Suzy Kassem

Being truthful is the new beautiful.

~ Suzy Kassem

You have to be transparent so you no longer cast a shadow but instead let the light pass through you.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Always be truthful and you will have fewer visits from regret, guilt or fear.

~ Suzy Kassem

I never trust frank and simple people whose stories hold together.

~ Hemmingway Ernest

Though no one can backtrack and create a brand new start, Everyone is capable of taking their life in a brand new direction.

~ Germany Kent

It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn't they?

~ Julia Quinn

The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities... If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

~ Rachel Carson

There are many standards to measure if a person was successful including did they fill a niche role in society, invent something useful, attain professional distinction, or achieve great wealth. A person might also judge someone a success in life if they laughed frequently, were kind to children and animals, and were truthful, loved by their family, and respected by their friends.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

You can't be jealous of someone else's results. You don't know the prayer, process, sacrifice, and work they endured for it.

~ Germany Kent

Nobody but you have to believe in your dreams to make them a reality.

~ Germany Kent

To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.

~ Germany Kent

Speak with caution. Even if someone forgives harsh words you've spoken, they may be too hurt to ever forget them. Don't leave a legacy of pain and regret of things you never should have said.

~ Germany Kent

To ‘pretend’ is to say that I’m willing to waste the precious energy that it takes to pretend, and I’m unwilling to cultivate the bravery that it takes to be real. And I am at a complete loss to pretend that either of these aren’t true.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Apathy is unconditional surrender where we are driven into hiding by unrealistic fear, and firmly held there by the misinformed belief that we are helpless to do anything other than hide. Therefore, apathy survives solely on lies and can be completely abated by truth.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Self-leaders are still true leaders even if they have no known followers. True leaders inspire by the influence of their characters and general self-made brands. Leadership is defined by the virtues of one's behaviour.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Self-leaders do not look for followers because they are busily pursuing their influencial dreams that followers will trace and ask for. Followers look for influence and that can be obtained from self-leaders.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people. Leadership is not restricted to position and age; it is self-made and influencial. Everyone has this self-leadership quality.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The concept of leadership is abused by people who think a person becomes a leader when he grows grey hair, put into a position and expected to function. Everyone has a leadership potential carried within in a specific area of his or purpose. Leadership is universal and built on trust.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

People believe what they are told.

~ Jacqueline Carey

Unfortunately in today’s world a liar seems to be more reliable than a truthful honest man.

~ Munia Khan

Beautiful is he who recognizes what is truly beautiful,Even if the surface is ugly.Truthful is he who says what is true,Even if the truth is ugly.Ugly is he who measures beauty by its exterior,Without first weighing the interior.And ugly is the man who judges harshly what he sees looking out,Without first judging what he sees in the mirror.Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun (2010)

~ Suzy Kassem

Contrary to popular opinion, leadership is not a reserved position for a particular group of people who were elected or appointed, ordained or enthroned. Leadership is self-made, self-retained, self-inculcated and then exposed through a faithful, sincere and examplary life.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A true leader is still a leader even when he takes up servants' duty, provided he maintains a human face and added integrity to his self-retained qualities.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Seek a man that doesn't ask you to prove your love. Seek a man that will prove God's love.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The ladder of leadership can only stand firm on the grounds of integrity. Any other ground makes it unstable till it falls.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

~ Roger Zelazny

Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

~ George R.r. Martin

I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?

~ John Bunyan

How do text messages make you feel existential?I start thinking about exactly that: how people can edit a thought before sending it out to the world. They can make themselves seem more well spoken than they are, or funnier, smarter. I start thinking that no one in the world is who they say the are, then my mind goes to how I also edit myself, not just online but in real life, except for those rare instances like right now where I'm ranting- even though that's a lie because I've had this train of thought before and damned if I didn't tweak it in my head a few times to make it sound better- and then my mind starts racing so furiously I can't control my thoughts, and I start thinking about robots and wondering if I'm even a real person.

~ Adi Alsaid

Understand your power. Live dangerously. Live fearlessly. Cower before no earthly master. Know yourself. Live truthfully. Live freely. Be yourself. Love yourself.

~ Bryant Mcgill

A person must never live a lie. We free ourselves to live a full life by discovering the courage to face our illusions and live a true life.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

You cannot be truthful if you are not courageous. You cannot be loving if you are not courageous. You cannot be trusting if you are not courageous. You cannot inquire into reality if you are not courageous. Hence courage comes first and everything else follows.

~ Osho

Your aspirations are deeply influenced by your inspirations. Don't produce bad situations due to a lack of creative ambitions.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana