Quotes about Honesty

We tap into something when we're honest about what's going on in our lives.

I think what people respond to is someone being who they actually are.

As I found again and again as a writer, when you're completely honest about something, people respond to that.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

I have loads of secrets to tell all the time.

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

People lie to themselves all the time about what they've been through and what it means - I'm no exception. But you write those lies down - lies that really matter to you and that are really painful to let go of because they've become a part of who you are - and they don't work.

Parents have no greater responsibility in this world than the bringing up of their children in the right way, and they will have no greater satisfaction as the years pass than to see those children grow in integrity and honesty and make something of their lives.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

Every time I make an assumption about someone who has hurt or disappointed me without confirming it, I believe a lie about this person in my head. This assumption is a misrepresentation of reality. Because I have not checked it out with the other person, it is very possible I am believing something untrue. It is also likely I will pass that false assumption around to others.

In neglecting our intense emotions, we are false to ourselves and lose a wonderful opportunity to know God. We forget that change comes through brutal honesty and vulnerability before God.

You can't have the true peace of Christ's kingdom with lies and pretense.