honesty quotes

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‚Yes, you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.‘ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

My fans don’t feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I’m going through now, they’ll hear about it on a record someday. They’ll hear the real story. There’s a little bit of lag time. It’s not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it’s much more accurate.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

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?

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

I think it’s an Irish thing. We don’t really care. We say it as we mean it, and you have to deal with it. The truth is the truth.

When you’re faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don’t hold back.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

‚Some Kind Of Monster‘ is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you’re watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it’s necessary.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

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

I am not a crook.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

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

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

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

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

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

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

I’ve never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

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

In assisting his ‚neighbour‘ every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.

Reparations – not just aid – should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and – together with other criminal states – for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires.

Let’s be honest. Canada wasn’t ever cool.

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

Many people aren’t rich because they’re liars.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.