Quotes about Honesty

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

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.

Be yourself. Authenticity trumps cool every time.

As Christians, we're under oath all the time. We're not always required to say everything we think or know, but we're always to speak as He did-truthfully.

I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.

It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united.

Whenever it feels uncomfortable to tell the truth, that's often the most important time to tell it.

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

A spiritual relationship is not necessarily one in which two people are smiling all the time.  Spiritual means to be above all else, authentic.  Real work can only occur in the presence of rigorous honesty  We all long for that, but we're afraid of communicating honestly with another person because we think they'll leave us if they see who we really are.

The heart's transformation is not attained through the mind—it's attained through surrender, authenticity, forgiveness, faith, honesty, acceptance, vulnerability, humility, willingness, nonjudgment, and other characterological values that have to be learned and relearned continuously.

Think honestly what you have thought that God would not have thought, and what you have not thought that God would have you think.