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

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

An honest man is always a child.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

I don’t have anything to hide.

Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

I’m not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it’s a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don’t believe that’s the way one oughta campaign, I’ve never done that.

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame’s is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

When in doubt tell the truth.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself – let’s put it that way.

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

True friends stab you in the front.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

I think it’s OK to be confident in yourself.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There’s no tricks. It’s honesty with big melodies.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all.

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?

Character is power.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.