Quotes about Candor
Care without candor creates dysfunctional relationships. Candor without care creates distant relationships.
— John Maxwell
To say Washington was a Deist—even a "soft Deist"—would imply that he did not have a problem violating his conscience each time he worshiped in his church. It is difficult to imagine how Washington, with his expressed concern for his character and his open commitment to honesty and candor, along with his sensitive conscience, could repeatedly and consistently make a public reaffirmation of a faith that he really did not believe.
— Peter Lillback
ADMIT YOUR WEAKNESSES AND LIMITATIONS
— Patrick Lencioni
What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?
— Oscar Wilde
An honest answer is an act of love.
— Kent Hughes
Good leaders want the truth—even if it hurts.
— John Maxwell
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
— St. Jerome
But now, please look at me. Would I lie to your face?
— Job 6:28
I always think that the franker you are with people, the more you're likely to deceive 'em; so unused is the modern world to the open hand and the guileless heart
— Dorothy Sayers
It's your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. But truth must be in us. We live in such a poverty of truth today.
— Mother Angelica
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
— Oscar Wilde
He planted a one-word caution sign between you and hell's path: perish. "Whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16). Jesus spoke of hell often. Thirteen percent of his teachings refer to eternal judgment and hell.4 Two-thirds of his parables relate to resurrection and judgment.5 Jesus wasn't cruel or capricious, but he was blunt. His candor stuns.
— Max Lucado