Honesty Quotes
Yoko Ono
Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.
1859 Victor Hugo
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
1006 Kiki Archer
always tell the truth and you'll never have to remember your words.
1052 Jess C. Scott
When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.
2415 Jess C. Scott
Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.
Good things come to those who wait.
3534 Jess C. Scott
A fit, healthy body - that is the best fashion statement
1687 Susan Polis Schutz
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.
4116 Jess C. Scott
I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?
1339 Jess C. Scott
V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.
2512 Jess C. Scott
Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.
1417 Jess C. Scott
My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.
2982 Jess C. Scott
Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.
4590 Ernest Hemingway
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
2489 Peter Kreeft
One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.
1342 Walter Scott
Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.
1631 Virginia Woolf
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
2262 Jane Austen
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.
4740 Abraham Lincoln
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
3694 Albert Camus
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
3874 Laurie Halse Anderson
I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?
2629 Czesław Miłosz
In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.
1451 Myra McEntire
Most of what I say is complete truth. My edit button is broken.
3519 Rachel Maddow
The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.
2446 Laurell K. Hamilton
The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.
2365 Muriel Rukeyser
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.
4318 Jess C. Scott
I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?
2502 David Rovics
They'll say you are bad
or perhaps you are mad
or at least you
should stay undercover.
Your mind must be bare
if you would dare
to think you can love
more than one lover.
2323 Michael Bassey Johnson
I can cross the boundless ocean just to save you, I cannot eat or sleep without you, I can take you on a journey to heaven and show you to the angels. All these are fake and absurd promises; Be sincere, walk up to your lover and say, honestly, darling, i can only do the best i can for you.
1942 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
You never know who you're inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think.
4053 Ram Mohan
Good and bad, right and wrong, truth and deception, it all depends on your state of mind.
3762 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
If someone doesn't care to accept you, respect you, believe in you, don't hesitate to move on and let them go. There are many who love and appreciate you just the way you are.
2482 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Follow the path that leads to understanding. Only then, will you illuminate the way for others. Once you open your mind and gain knowledge, truth, you'll leave the darkness and enter into the light of wisdom.
2635 Roman Payne
When I touched her body,
I believed she was God.
In the curves of her form
I found the birth of Man,
the creation of the world,
and the origin of all life.
2557 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Thoughts guide you everyday. They become your choices. If you're not happy with your life, change your thoughts. Think more positive.
2127 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Happiness gives you the freedom to enhance your ability to achieve success. Your choices in life are a direct reflection of your level of happiness. It's the sunshine for your soul that you need in order to grow
4579 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
I Love You! Three words that mean nothing if not followed through with actions. It seems to be more relevant in the terms of showing verses saying. Anyone can say it, because there are different kinds of love. But, few are willing to actually show it. Saying is one thing. Living proof is another.
3121 Franz Kafka
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
2044 Oscar Wilde
Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
4209 Ulysses S. Grant
I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly
1807 Ernest Hemingway
The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.
4069 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Consider your actions and words. Be thoughtful when expressing your feelings or concerns. Sometimes it's not what you say, but the way you say it. That makes all the difference
4255 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
People lack morals, good moral character is important in every aspect of your life. Honesty and Integrity opens the door. Your character allows others to see you for who you truly are. Make your first impression a lasting impression. Ironically it may be your last impression
4557 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
No matter how hard you try, there are times when things just don't go as planned. And, it's not because you are doing something wrong. It is because the thing you are after is not designed for you. It is not a part of your destiny.
2879 Michael Bassey Johnson
Time doesn't conceal anything, it tells the future what you did in the past, so prepare well in order to score extra marks.
1128 Agnostic Zetetic
We’re not broken. We’re not in the wrong bodies. We’re not inadequate. We’re not lesser. We’re not unwanted. We’re not fraudulent. We’re not undesirable. That’s all just a set of lies we tell to soothe the experience of the prisons we put ourselves in.
4389 Ram Mohan
Everyone is honest in their own right.. people begin to lie only when they are compelled to do it for others.
1046 Alan Sheinwald
The definition of a professional is one who does a job well even when they don't like it.
1668 Amit Kalantri
You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.
1620 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Talking is great, but don't ignore the value of listening. Pay attention to the words being spoken. Some people just love the sound of their own voice. And, when another person speaks, they are only anticipating to compete, challenge, or question what is being said. You can miss out on some important wisdom always running your mouth.
2696 Tim Fargo
Happiness grows best in the soil of contentment.
2816 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
People become desensitized to many things going on around them. It is because they always see it on the tv, hear it on the radio, read or watch it on the internet, hear about it at work etc. Then immoral acts are tuned to a deaf ear. Then no one wants to take action or speak up for what's right. Break the cycle and have moral character.
3506 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Revive your inner spirit! Break free from all things weighing you down, grab hold of your strong rope and lift yourself out of hopelessness!
3784 Stefan Molyneux
The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature".
3437 Stefan Molyneux
Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.
3695 Kandi Dougherty
This time around I was so lonely that I was forced to be face to face with myself. Realizing at the end of the day I only have me and I didn't seem to like my own company. I decided to I had to make myself into someone I can live with.
4912 William Hazlitt
The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.
3974 Kiki Archer
Just always be honest about your feelings. If everyone did that then the world would be a much simpler place.
1577 Jinvirle
There's honesty embedded everywhere when you see the world through the eyes of a child.
1013 Simone Elkeles
Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.
2458 Sarah Dessen
You want to take me to a movie?" I asked.
"Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.
1253 Kristin Cashore
She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth.
3643 H.L. Mencken
In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms.
1126 Laura Ingalls Wilder
The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
2677 Louis C.K.
Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not "we love each other", it's just "fuck it, man.
3791 Ashly Lorenzana
Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.
4046 Oscar Wilde
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
2902 Abraham Lincoln
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.
2572 Omega Maverick
I would rather be damned by my honesty, than caged by my lies.
1917 Leo Tolstoy
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
1395 Khaled Hosseini
Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
3108 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.
4293 Ashly Lorenzana
Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.
2662 Plato
You should not honor men more than truth.
2271 Jessica Warman
I'm not mean, I'm honest. Nobody is ever straightforward. But sometimes people need to hear the truth.
4455 Margaret Dilloway
Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth.
4319 Simone Weil
We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.
3160 Patrick Henry
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.
3896 Michael Bassey Johnson
A sincere friend conceals all your deformities, deceives and convince others that you are extremely perfect, the insincere will tell the truth of destruction, leave you open for others to glare and laugh.
4338 Terry Goodkind
Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.
2222 Truman Capote
I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.
2685 Michael David Lukas
She hadn't lied. She hadn't betrayed anyone's trust; still, she felt she had done something wrong. Or rather, she had not yet done the right thing. Was there a difference between these two sins?
4163 Dorothy L. Sayers
The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.
3621 Unknown Author
Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
4828 Bisco Hatori
Isn't strength the ability to renounce every lie in your heart?
3256 Edward Verrall Lucas
The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.
2586 Madison Reil
People only lie because they are afraid of the truth
1754 Chuck Palahniuk
It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.
1806 Patti Smith
...the law of empathy, by which he could, by his will, transfer himself into an object or a work of art, and thus inflence the outer world. He did not feel redeemed by the work he did. He did not seek redemption. He sought to see what others did not, the projection of his imagination.
1740 John Green
I just think if you don't say the honest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true, you know, and I-
2218 Mike Norton
For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.
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