Honesty Quotes

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Honesty and stupidity are very alike. Both have no limits!

Baseball has fallen. Yes, the national game has become degraded. At certain match games large amounts of money changed hands among the spectatory. A noted New York club is said to have sold the results of a match. Barred chins and broken fingers may be easily mended, but a disfigured reputation may never be entirely repaired. Once more, abandon the bat, boys, if you cannot keep the game pure.

If you are incapable of apologizing when you're wrong, then you are not humble. There is no authenticity without humility.

Intellectual honesty is the most valuable relationship currency after trust. Be aware of how you represent yourself-your brand.

It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

We tell ourselves that we lie to protect others, but the self usually comes out looking damn good in the process.

Integrity requires thinking of others first.

The truth hurts, but what hurts more is is all the lies covering the truth

The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you're allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it's definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

I have had my shirts altered so I can wear my heart on my sleeve.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone when you're uncool.

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

Dare to be what you are and to believe in your own individuality.

I hate things all fiction. There should always be some foundation of fact.

People are ... self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. ... The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. In the end, it is between you and HIM, not you and them.