Better a broken promise than none at all.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

When individual members of the team are highly disciplined, they can be trusted and, therefore, allowed to operate with very little oversight.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Every time I say something that’s extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet.

Our vision and commitment is towards the country’s progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

As president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

A lie cannot live.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

I was always trying – I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

An honest man is always a child.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

I tend to feel if people say they’re going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.