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It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.

Rick Riordan

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honesty is hard work.

Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.

Starhawk, American author, activist and Neopagan

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It is necessary in our time to brave the ridiculous to be honest.

It takes courage to say what has to be said.

If ethical fading is powered by self-deception, maintaining ethical behavior demands complete honesty and constant self-assessment.

To be honest, you must know yourself well. And that involves integrity — which is honesty's twin asset. Integrity is knowing yourself well enough to be able to mean what you say.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

From a material perspective, it might not always pay to be honest, but from a moral perspective, it's always the right thing. That applies to a frail person as well as a criminal. This was my guiding principle - both when I was in captivity and after I was released.

Always be radically honest, but use your honesty as a gift not as a weapon. Your honesty should benefit others.

Be humble: have the courage to speak the truth.

Honesty and transparency were key to emotional resilience.

To be honest means “to tell the truth without expectation,” without aiming for a particular result, without trying to hurt or manipulate the other person in any way. Honesty means telling the truth and being willing to experience everything that follows. It means telling the truth not with the aim of changing or fixing the other person, but simply because the truth is what I long for the most. What I long for the most is to let go of the burden of trying to hold up a false image of myself in your presence. In the end, we don’t need a reason to tell to the truth, to admit what is. Truth is its own reward.

There is no merit in being truthful when one is truthful by nature, or rather when one can be nothing else; it is a gift, like poetry or music. But it needs courage to be truthful after carefully considering the matter, unless a kind of pride is involved; for example, the man who says to himself, "I am ugly," and then says, "I am ugly" to his friends, lest they should think themselves the first to make the discovery.

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