Honesty

Being truthful, when you know it will cost you, is the true test of honesty.
Dave Weinbaum

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain

Stop telling ourselves big lies and letting inner critics run our lives.
SARK

The first person we have to tell the truth to is ourselves. If we are not going to be honest with ourselves, there is little possibility that we will treat anyone else differently.
Toinette Lippe, author, in "Nothing Left Over: Plain and Simple Life"

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948), jurist

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
Sacha Guitry

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
Samuel Goldwyn

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
B.C. Forbes (1880-1954), founder of Forbes magazine

Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

I am laughing, confused, caught in an endless circle of lies. Or perhaps they are not lies but their own form of loyalty, a devotion beyond anything that can ever be spoken, anything that I will ever understand.
The Kitchen God's Wife, Amy Tan

Real communication happens when people feel safe.
Ken Blanchard

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
Herbert Agar