Top 100 Quotes About Truth And Honesty
#1. It is possible to have a rather tranquil political atmosphere in any given nation. The secret is to put truth and honesty as the foundation of the political structure in that nation.
Sunday Adelaja
#2. [Success] always starts with the material; it always starts with the truth and honesty of the characters that you read in the screenplay and that's rarely something that can be remedied if it's simply not there by the time you shoot the film. Thank God we had that.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#3. Wealth will always find their way out of societies where truth and honesty are not established into the societies where there are principles of honesty and truth.
Sunday Adelaja
#4. A country cannot change, be transformed or developed as long as there is no truth and honesty as an everyday principle among the citizens of the nation.
Sunday Adelaja
#5. No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#6. If a country successfully translate the principles of truth and honesty into their social life, then that country experiences peace, tranquillity and serenity.
Sunday Adelaja
#7. Truth and honesty are some of the most powerful principles to developing a nation.
Sunday Adelaja
#8. When truth and honesty is absent in the nation, it relates not just to the politicians.
Sunday Adelaja
#9. Wherever politics intrudes upon economic life, political success is readily attained by saying what people like to hear rather than what is demonstrably true. Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insi
Hans F. Sennholz
#10. The difference between truth and honesty is the difference between the riverbed and the river.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#11. Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.
William Hazlitt
#12. Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.
Hans F. Sennholz
#13. The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented.
J.G. Ballard
#14. Truth and Honesty: this principle could bring about healing and harmony in any nation.
Sunday Adelaja
#15. When the economy of a country is based fundamentally on the principles of truth and honesty, that nation experiences economic stability.
Sunday Adelaja
#16. It is always easier to deal in truth and honesty and follow these to their legitimate ends, than it is to construct and adjust a false superstructure upon a false base.
Charles Lindbergh
#17. I am inspired by great food, theater, books, the beach, black-and-white photography, and great vocalists, like Dianne Reeves, Alice Smith, and Shirley Horn. I am inspired by my mentor Diana Castle, who is guiding me towards a truth and honesty in my life and work that I have always longed for.
Erica Tazel
#18. Sometimes I'm not so sure how healthy it is because it's exhausting to put all your emotion into your work, but I guess I should be thankful for that. I don't want the work to be about anything else but the truth and honesty.
Jose Parla
#20. True development only comes when the principles of truth and honesty have been successfully transmitted into the daily and everyday lifestyle of the people.
Sunday Adelaja
#21. Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Spencer Johnson
#22. Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.
Thomas Kretschmann
#23. I think my love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned.
Richard Dawkins
#24. Economic and financial conversion is actually attainable, thanks to this principle of truth and honesty.
Sunday Adelaja
#25. Nigeria is a country with abundance of wealth, but because of lack of truth and integrity, the wealth are stolen, but the paradox of the whole thing is, this stolen wealth always find their way to nations with no apparent natural wealth, but with a high credit of degree of truth and honesty.
Sunday Adelaja
#26. Integrity is more than truth and honesty; integrity is an unshackled mind, a happy heart, and a light spirit. Integrity is inner peace with a clear, clean conscience. Integrity is self-respect, honor, and credibility. Integrity is healthy and unfettering, and it is worth defending.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#27. If you see any country that is advanced and developed today, it is because that society is fundamentally based on principles of truth and honesty.
Sunday Adelaja
#28. When truth and honesty is successfully intertwined into the business world of a nation, the result is a boost in commerce.
Sunday Adelaja
#29. Wealth will always find a way of escaping from societies without an established system of truth and honesty, into societies that are well established in truth and honesty.
Sunday Adelaja
#30. The key challenge facing us today is to successfully transmit into daily and everyday lifestyle the principle of truth and honesty.
Sunday Adelaja
#31. One of the secrets a nation can unlock to have material wealth is, having a leader who will take an uncompromising stand to establish truth and honesty as a rule of building the nation
Sunday Adelaja
#33. National transformation is also attainable through the simple principle of Truth and Honesty
Sunday Adelaja
#34. I believe that without strict enforcement of penalties for any offence violating the principles of truth and honesty, Nigeria and Africa will not be able to move from our present state of underdevelopment into civilization.
Sunday Adelaja
#35. My theory is the root of a country artist is truth and honesty. For me, I look at Sam Hunt. The truth and the honest thing is we have southern roots, we were raised in a southern way, but we listen to Drake and other stuff, too.
Kelsea Ballerini
#36. There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.
Frank Ocean
#37. You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.
Scott Bakula
#38. The truth shouldn't be told only when it's convenient. Honesty must be a way of life.
Frank Sonnenberg
#39. 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
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#40. The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.
R.D. Laing
#42. He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#43. The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before.
Theodore Roosevelt
#44. Humans are not a commodity, nor is our humanity. Fight to save the lives of those who can not save themselves, and in turn, you will have saved your soul.
L.M. Fields
#45. Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
John Galsworthy
#46. The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
Criss Jami
#47. Understand your driving force, whether you're operating out of fear or love. When we operate in fear, we tend to hold back and not get the most from life. When we operate in love, we open new avenues and experience life more abundantly.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#48. Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun ... and you'll have no regrets.
Byrd Baggett
#49. A solid base for any comedy is just honesty and truth, and it coming from a real place. As surreal as this show gets and is, ultimately, we're dealing with a character that most can't see the way that I can see it.
Elijah Wood
#50. Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.
Denis Johnston
#51. Live in the present moment, you can't go back to yesterday, you can't leap into tomorrow, Today is your second, minute, hour! Embrace It!
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#52. The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no prisoners ...
Natalie Goldberg
#53. Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.
Benjamin Disraeli
#54. They were as different as honesty and truth, but it takes experience to see the dissimilarities. Rocky was friendly, outgoing and boisterous; Charger was sullen, withdrawn and paranoid. Rocky liked people; Charger didn't. Rocky could trust; Charger didn't know the meaning of the word.
Joel M. McMains
#55. In an honest effort to gain understanding, asking questions do not, necessarily, imply a conclusion has been determined. They can be used to avoid making the wrong judgement. If building trust is the ultimate goal - there is no need to be defensive, or feel threatened by any inquiry.
T.F. Hodge
#56. If you are standing in one place waiting for something to change, you may be there for a while. You've got to move. Step up and take a swing. Make something happen
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#57. 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.
Franz Kafka
#58. Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends
Alexis De Tocqueville
#61. It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.
Criss Jami
#62. 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.
Jane Austen
#63. There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.
Samuel Butler
#64. Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love. When we see ourselves as we truly are and accept ourselves, we build the necessary foundation for self-love.
Bell Hooks
#65. You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.
Anne Lamott
#66. You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.
David Levithan
#67. Secrets, like tyrants, have influence that extends far beyond their own thrones. To silence their oppressive powers, they must be uncrowned.
Ina Catrinescu
#68. A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.
Samuel Johnson
#69. And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
William Faulkner
#70. I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
Roberto Bolano
#71. Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?
George Orwell
#72. When you find that people are not telling you the truth
look out!
Agatha Christie
#73. And the faith that grows out of questioning is stronger than the faith born of blind acceptance. It can withstand the shocks of circumstance. Only he who questions the universe and questions it in utter honesty can grow in his comprehension of the truth.
James Dillet Freeman
#74. Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.
Ashly Lorenzana
#75. After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.
Criss Jami
#76. There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.
O. Henry
#77. An ancient human religious figure known as John the Baptist had once claimed, "The truth shall make you free," but if Aelyx remembered correctly, John's honesty had been rewarded with a gruesome decapitation. Aelyx hoped for better results.
Melissa Landers
#78. As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.
Harper Lee
#79. My mother was terribly invasive, all in the name of psychiatric honesty. It was a bad thing in some ways, but I do think it had the effect of making me interested in 'the truth' as a writer - more than beauty, more than having a shapely story.
Edmund White
#80. Guilt is a lazy feeling that takes no action; the wings of integrity are the only thing that sets it free.
Shannon L. Alder
#81. No matter how many lies you use to disguise it or how many excuses you bury it beneath, the truth will never cease to be true.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#82. If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#83. I don't make people comfortable but that's what couches are for.
Donna Lynn Hope
#84. I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like; it is terrifying.
Abel Hermant
#85. We've all become so conscious of how we'll be perceived and so frightened to
possibly offend someone that we've filtered ourselves to what borders on dishonesty. Sure, as my wife constantly reminds me, you don't have to say everything you think; but when did speaking plainly become such a sin?
Aaron Blaylock
#87. Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.
Criss Jami
#88. Their conversation was like root canal without anaesthesia.
Tan Redding
#89. Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.
Steve Maraboli
#90. The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.
Dalai Lama
#91. A make believe life doesn't win friends and influence people. It bores the crap out of those living the dream.
Melody Carstairs
#92. All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.
Nigel Kneale
#93. To be happy, pursue your purpose with love and honesty.
Debasish Mridha
#94. They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of first introducing it into minds which were ignorant of its charms (Casanova, p.34, Vol 1 Preface).
Giacomo Casanova
#95. The hack is like a politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He's a demagogue. He panders.
Steven Pressfield
#96. The highest compact we can make with our fellow is -
"Let there be truth between us two forevermore."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#97. What will you tell him?"
"The truth."
Fortismer thinks about that.
"Yes," he says at last. "Probably the best thing. Bloody deceptive, honesty.
Nick Harkaway
#98. People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it.
Kinky Friedman
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