#honesty-quotes

[quotelr]

The wishes of an honest man do not stretch beyond what he undoubtedly deserves.

Eraldo Banovac

[thepersonalwords]

There's no need to kick him in the balls for him to tell the story honestly and impartially, because the dead are usually honest, even the bastards among them.

Hassan Blasim, The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq

[philosophybits]

Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to passions and coarse pleasures, in order to occupy and amuse himself, and in his vices reaches complete bestiality, and it all comes from lying continually to others and to himself.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[quotefeeling]

Scare the world: Be exactly who you say you are and tell the truth.

The Shock of Honesty

[thirdity]

Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.

Henry Miller, Henry Miller on Writing

[indeedgoodman]

[deathnguts]

Regulus, shifting in that insecure like way: Bee, do you think I’m-

Barty, completely deadpan: no, you’re not ugly, you are so hot I could get off untouched from just looking at you and I’m not fucking around.

Regulus, lowkey reassured: ???!

[palatinewolfsblog]

"To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." Ralph Waldo Emerson.

[demigod-shenanigans]

A demigod who comes by the Waystation and needs their magic item fixed: I’m looking for Valdez?

Jason: Here

Demigod: …the other Valdez

Sofía: Here!

Demigod: …the one who can actually fix my magic item?

Sofía: *pouting* you didn’t even let us try

[usefulquotes7]

Don't ever lie to me, i understand a lot of shit, ain't no need to lie. be real with me, i respect honesty no matter how bad it is.

[quotelr]

Be humble: have the courage to speak the truth.

Ken Poirot

[queenlucythevaliant]

For what it means is this, among other things: that for whatever reason God chose to make man as he is—limited and suffering and subject to sorrows and death—he had the honesty and courage to take his own medicine. Whatever game he is playing with his creation, he has kept his own rules and played fair. He can exact nothing from man that he has not exacted from himself. He has himself gone through the whole of human experience, from the trivial irritations of family life and the cramping restrictions of hard work and lack of money to the worst horrors of pain and humiliation, defeat, despair, and death. When he was a man, he played the man. He was born in poverty and died in disgrace and thought it well worthwhile.

Dorothy Sayers on the Incarnation, "The Greatest Drama Ever Staged" (emphasis mine)

[philosophybits]

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous; for upon these conditions depends the life of its life.

Frederick Douglass, "We are Confronted by a New Administration (1885)"

[thepersonalquotes]

Do not allow your happiness to be controlled by the thoughts of others. People are happy for you one minute and then the next they are looking down their noses at you. You have to find within yourself the kind of happiness that withstands the ups and downs of life. No one should have the power to limit or repress your happiness.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush

[wahroh]

No get kilt, aye?

[perfectquote]

Scare the world: Be exactly who you say you are and tell the truth.

The Shock of Honesty