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20 Quotes That Will Remind You Why Honesty Is Always The Best Policy

For when you need that extra push to tell the truth. 
Heidi Priebe
October 13, 2016
“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”
— Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Tagged: Writing, Pain, Trauma, Healing, Honesty, expression, Self-Expression, vulnerability
“If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.”
— Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Tagged: Fear, vulnerability, expression, Self-Expression, Honesty, Opening Up
“So please, if you are the kind of person who is honest with the people you love without thinking of how hard the consequences may be on your heart, please don’t change that about yourself. Don’t allow your heart to be hardened into playing games just like everyone else. Don’t let the world fool you into thinking that you’re doing it wrong. Keep being honest. Because you’re one of the few who is getting it right. Keep looking for a love who is just as honest back.”
— Nikita Gill, For Honest People Seeking Love In A World Afraid of Rejection
Tagged: Honesty, Honest Love, Pure Love, Your Heart, Keep Looking, Keep Searching, Finding The Right One
“Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Truth, Personal Truth, Integrity, Trust, Trusting Yourself
“Confessing and living the truth of who you are in any moment ultimately yields only profound clarity, a deliciously deep abiding joy, and an effortless way of living that isn’t possible when you’re caught up living in the wild fictions of a conflicted, grasping mind.”
— Bryan Reeves, Tell the Truth, Let the Peace Fall Where it May: How Authentic Living Creates the Passion, Fulfillment & Love You Seek
Tagged: Truth About Myself, Honesty, Truth About Me, Let The Pieces Fall, Confess, Live Your Truth
“The most confused we ever get is when we’re trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.”
— Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn: A Fever Novel
Tagged: Confused, Instinct, Honesty, Truth
“If I only had three words of advice, they would be, Tell the Truth. If I got three more words, I'd add, all the time.”
— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
Tagged: Truth, Genuineness, Honesty
“You can't fake the core. ”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Honesty, Truth, Personal Truth
“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
Tagged: beauty, Truth, Lies
“The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.”
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote de La Mancha (Modern Library (Hardcover))
Tagged: Truth, Lies, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.”
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Tagged: shakespeare, Be yourself, Truth, Lies
“If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!”
— Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Amazon Classics Edition)
Tagged: Truth, Honesty, tell the truth, Goodness, Morality, Ethics, Wisdom, Funny, Irony, humor
“I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.”
— Daniel Radcliffe, Naturalopy: The Complete Reference: Naturalopy
Tagged: Honesty, Hero, Personality
“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn’t fashionable.”
— Craig Ferguson, Character Quotes
Tagged: Truth, Honesty, Right And Wrong
“Truth is still absolute. Believe that. Even when that truth is hard and cold, and more painful than you've ever imagined. And even when truth is more cruel than any lie.”
— Lucas Scott, One Tree Hill
Tagged: Truth, Life
“Men are used to women skating around their feelings, which is why they can be a little thrown off when we tell them exactly what we’re looking for. But we know what we want and aren’t afraid to let everybody know it. There’s nothing wrong with that, even though they think there is.”
— Holly Riordan, Dating's The Worst For Women With High Standards
Tagged: Standards, High Standards, Feelings, blunt, Honesty
“Be direct. We understand the desire to feel things out, but it saves everybody time and stress when you spell out what you want.”
— Alexis Kleinman, The Do's And Don'ts Of Texting Your Crush
Tagged: flirting over text, blunt, Honesty
“We spend so much effort trying to keep parts of our lives hidden, even from our closest friends, that in those rare times when we do open up, it's amazing how minor those secrets all end up being.”
— Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother, Season 1: Game Night
Tagged: Secrets, vulnerability, Love, Growth, Honesty, Truth
“You can only really grow when you start being honest with yourself about who you are in the first place.”
— Ryan O’Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves
Tagged: Growth, Honesty, Self-Acceptance, Life, Change
“When I see people stand fully in their truth, or when I see someone fall down, get back up, and say, ‘Damn. That really hurt, but this is important to me and I’m going in again’—my gut reaction is, ‘What a badass.”
— Brené Brown, Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
Tagged: Truth, Authenticity, strength, Badasses, Courage