587 quotes found
“From what I've witness, honesty didn't really make anyone happy. The truth was a punch to the gut, and while you were falling, a knee to the face, then you could lie on the floor and bleed for a sp...”
“Even the oldest trees aren't ashamed to stand naked.”
“I'm not a poet and I know it.”
“If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.”
“There is nothing you will ever do that is more important than being honest about who you really are.”
“If you're not honest with your work if you're being merely decorative then the world will know. People intuit honest work. They know when they are being tricked by clever metaphors . . . by disho...”
“Here it was, the first of many lies hed have to come up with. Bella threw a knife at my head. Hed do better with the next lie.”
“More than one thing is never true. People love to say the opposite, love to talk about inner conflict, nuances, levels of complication. But if this last year has taught her anything, it has taught ...”
“You are lost because you have not been being honest with yourself, and your life is largely unexamined and unexerted.”
“Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the honesty she lived in.”
“If you can look yourself in the mirror at the end of each day, knowing that you did your best, or helped someone out, or took the high road and acted with integrity, then that is an awesome day!”
“Better by far to live in the truth and know it, however bad it may be, than hide yourself away behind ignorance and habit.”
“Theres nothing more powerful in Your Moment of Truth than people owning their truth, their part in a situation.”
“I have learnt that we expect honesty and genuineness from others, while not being honest and genuine with our own self.”
“This place has been my home. They liked me here. Not any more. Now they will look the other way. Now I don't belong.”
“You looked like the girl I loved.”
“Sorry, but I have to be who I am. Everyone else is taken... So be your self! Speak your truth - if there are people around you who tempt you with non-existence blast through that and give them the ...”
“Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life all areas of life.”
“Honesty is not the same as truth. That is the obstacle of the notion of relative truths. I would like to put my trust in the lunatic. He is the one least concerned of what I think of him, the mark ...”
“I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.”