Quotes about Honesty

There comes a point in a relationship when you realize that you trust someone enough to let them keep their secrets.

Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

What an important lesson for all of us! The words that come out of our mouths are a direct indicator of what is in our hearts. Idle

It is important to remember that anytime you feel the need to begin a conversation with the words, I probably shouldn't tell you this, but . . . it's almost always a conversation that shouldn't happen at all. So, if you feel the need to say, I probably shouldn't say this . . . then DON'T! Just hush. That little nudge you are feeling is probably the Holy Spirit saying, Don't go there. You're going to regret the words you're about to speak. Or as King David wrote, Muzzle it! I

She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.

Good behavior in the first place is more important than theatrical apologies afterwards.

I fear the name of friendship is often degraded to a kind of intimacy that has nothing of real friendship in it.

This world would be a much more interesting place…although it is very interesting, anyhow…if people spoke out their real thoughts.

Charlie Sloane says he's going to go into politics and be a member of Parliament, but Mrs. Lynde says he'll never succeed at that, because the Sloanes are all honest people, and it's only rascals that get on in politics nowadays.

That level of honesty is reserved for the counseling office. Church is too often a place of pretense and therefore a place without hope. When brokenness is disdained, where the real story is never told, the power of God is not felt. Where brokenness is invited and received with grace, the gospel comes alive with hope.