Presidents lie all the time. Really great presidents lie. Abraham Lincoln managed to end slavery in America partially by deception. (In an 1858 debate, he flatly insisted that he had no intention of abolishing slavery...

My confessions did nothing to alter this situation, but for the first time in my life I felt that somebody actually knew me. Three somebodies, to be exact. Two were roaming the highway in a...

… honesty is like seeing a crackhead up close: it ain’t that fucking attractive.

Branding jails corporate America, but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.

Honestly, Bob: how do you carve a scream?

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.

If I were a superhero, I’d be Honesty Man. I’d be so transparent I’d be invisible.

(I)f you’re not honest with yourself, life will never be honest with you.

It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively–which means to live authentically–is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in...

Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?

I never thought I’d be in this position. I hold myself to a high standard of integrity and honesty.

I tried to manipulate and control people and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven but I wouldn’t forgive others.

The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies.-Norah, Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist

Some people may like you, and some people may not, keep living your life dreams, you will succeed!

Vulnerability is strength. It is being honest about who you are & about your experiences.

When we look back from the vantage point of sobriety, many of us realize that when drinking we often felt like a fake, a fraud, and a phony. That’s because we were. – p. 74

There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. …Any man who says the world owes him a living is dishonest. The same God that made you and me...

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.

It takes a certain amount of courage, he though, to face yourself and say with candor, I’m rotten. I’ve done evil and I will again. It was no accident; it emanated from the true, authentic...

The human tendency toward confirmatory thinking – all of us are bias to seek information that fits what we already believe.

DON PEDROCome, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick.BEATRICEIndeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once...

Each time we don’t say what we wanna say, we’re dying.

No human being can be so honest as to become completely false.

Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.

A wise man thus seeks not a straight path, but one that is the shortest or most convenient. The idea is to reach your goal comfortably and quickly rather than wasting your time in finding...

A person who could muster the courage to remove from his daily life the products that he basically doesn’t need would automatically delete the negative thoughts and the toxic people in his life.

You have to believe what you’re saying if you’re going to convince me. I just can’t break that rule, even if I want to.

It was an uncomfortable feeling, staring into the darkest moments of someone’s soul without them knowing.

Erase the victim mentality. Remember you are capable of achieving greatness. If only you’d believe in your abilities to overcome. You are victorious. Celebrate the victory.

Material things may satisfy your temporal desires, but none can be taken with you when you’re gone. Build your hopes on things eternal !

Fair enough. You have the job.

The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented.

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.

All individuals have moral deficiencies, and when introducing these to reality one not only strengthens himself but also the confidence of others in the human exigency for Christ due to a reflection throughout the body...

Walking away from bad situations and negative people sets a healthier tone for the rest of your life. It also gives those who do not know any better the opportunity to self-correct.

The concept of leadership is abused by people who think a person becomes a leader when he grows grey hair, put into a position and expected to function. Everyone has a leadership potential carried within...

In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one...

Being trustworthy requires: Doing the right thing. And doing things right.

That’s the first rule of survival in enemy waters: volunteer nothing.

But the inexplicability of the General’s conduct dwelt much on her thoughts. That he was very particular in his eating, she had, by her own unassisted observation, already discovered; but why should he say one...

Reassuring a jealous woman that you don’t want her man creates the bigger beast of resentment because that tells her that what she has isn’t desirable and to her, where the opinions of others correlates...

Sure, I liked girls but I was always too terrified to speak to them unless we were arguing or I was calling them stupidos, which was one of my favorite words that year.

The trouble with most of us is that we’d rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms,...

It was a huge comfort to have a person who’d keep you honest with yourself and who also gave you safe harbour.

Don’t tell a lie to be loved, speak the truth to be hated.

In the end, there’s only one thing you can believe. Bodies are honest; they don’t lie.

…when someone is honest and vulnerable, they wring my heart – I want to hug them for being real…

Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.

If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else