Honest Quotes
I cannot overemphasize the impact our childhood has on our ability to be honest because we live out what we learned as children in our adult relationships.
The ‘fact’ of my actions frequently collide with the ‘fiction’ of my words. And at what point will I live what I say, so I will avoid what I do?
One either cares what others think about him, or cares what others think he thinks about them. If you want to find someone who doesn't care in the slightest what anyone thinks, try a lunatic asylum.
To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place.
The way to happiness is by truth. Seek to be true in all things and you will have a foundation to build your future.
If I were to be brutally honest with myself, how often is my journey actually a path designed to circumvent my journey?
My past conduct was so transparent and so honest that when my enemies spread rumours about me nobody believed them.
Jesus never criticized prayers that were honest, only those that were long and showy.
Let's be honest, honest it's important. I don't care about you, don't say bullshit and if there isn't any important thing please don't write me.
People who are unwilling to talk about deep personal issues do not trust their own emotions.
The lasting sweetness of the wealth obtained is directly proportional to the honesty of its source. Dishonest wealth does not last.
I’m secretly looking forward to someone whom I’m no longer ashamed to explain myself to, whom I can peel off all my metaphors and codes and reveal what the hell has happened all these years.
You cannot enjoy true love in relationship if you don't add honest flavours to it. You can genuinely maintain what you can sincerely entertain!
I guess it's better to have a chalk smile, than an ink smile. Where chalk changes with the direction of wind, ink stays as a deep stain. Like rain, sun and hail against a fake plant.
Honest men cannot be expected to anticipate the actions of scoundrels.
Defend your leadership roles with your true character. Never attack your own aspirations with corruption and unfaithfulness! Keep calm and be honest!
Integrity involves the ability to stand straight when you tell your truth, and still stand straight when the other person comes to talk!
Maintain your integrity! Live life in such a way that when another person tells his or her truth, you'll not be committed for blame.
If I am to choose between integrity and wealth, I will go for integrity because I believe that lack of integrity is the first killer of wealthiest dreams!
A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character.
Three things will make you happy: always have happy thoughts, be honest to yourself, and express unconditional love for everything.
Is it not the disparity of wealth that consumes the willing soul. Rather, the golden keys of opportunity clamor softly with fraught anxiety of things which may never come.
A “self-leader” is the positively influence you have on yourself and on others without any influence with your titles and positions. You must be able to lead yourself before you can lead others.
Art becomes an honest expression once done for oneself. Failure of that results to empty and transparent art.
If you truly loved someone you won't become their enemy. You will become their guardian angel.
Never settle on a life you don't want when God is trying to give you a better life.
The dark might be dark, but at least we don’t have to look at ourselves when we’re standing in it.
A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.
Misguided good men are more dangerous than honest bad men. It is because they are seen as good that, in and by good conscience, the mob will always, stubbornly back them without question.
But are we human creatures as honest, kind, trustworthy as we at times are inclined to believe?
We hate people who honestly tell us what they think about us. We wish we were what we are not
Such is the power of truth that even the slightest whisper of it can handily drown out the most boisterous of lies, which may explain why in many instances God only needs to whisper.
It is praiseworth to be open and honest, but you must be very discriminating on where and with whom you apply that most sacred virtue.
When someone apologizes to you, be sure you know whether they’re sorry, or just scared.
When I’m at the bottom looking up, the main question may not be ‘how do I get out of this hole?’ In reality, the main question might be ‘how do I get rid of the shovel that I used to dig it?
Honesty is the most talked about, the most desired but, at same time, one of the rarest qualities in present day world.