Quotes about Honesty

A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real.

But we need to pray daily for humility and honesty to see these sinful attitudes for that they really are, and then for grace and discipline to root them out of our minds and replace them with thoughts pleasing to God.

Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word." (The Great Exchange)

It's not enough to agree that we do tolerate at least some of them. Anyone except for the most self-righteous person will acknowledge that. "After all, no one is perfect," may be our attitude. But to honestly face those sins is another matter. For one thing, it is quite humbling. It also implies that we must do something about them. We can no longer continue to ignore them as we have in the past.

To say a person is morally bankrupt is to say he or she is completely devoid of any decent moral qualities.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

Good writing is true writing. If a man is making a story up it will be true in proportion to the amount of knowledge of life that he has and how conscientious he is; so that when he makes something up it is as it would truly be.

Lie life through its fullest

Any form of betrayal can be final. Dishonesty can be final. Selling out is final. But you are just talking now. Death is what is really final.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings.