17 Quotes Tagged: truthfulness

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Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons and daughters of a given nation strive to emulate their leader's greatness. Only then will a nation be truly great, when a leader inspires and produces citizens worthy of becoming future leaders, honorable decision makers and peacemakers. And in these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.

Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs; they do great and beautiful things. And shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth about all this, so far as the truth is ascertainable?

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

Whenever you deny the hand of Justice, Violence almost always steps in.

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other, but it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavour to shine. We labour unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence, and neglect the real. And if we possess calmness, or generosity, or truthfulness, we are eager to make it known, so as to attach these virtues to that imaginary existence. We would rather separate them from ourselves to join them to it; and we would willingly be cowards in order to acquire the reputation of being brave. A great proof of the nothingness of our being, not to be satisfied with the one without the other, and to renounce the one for the other! For he would be infamous who would not die to preserve his honour.

"Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."
~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~

Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected. But the one lied to almost never shares this view. The moment we consider our dishonesty from the point of view of those we lie to, we recognize that we would feel betrayed if the roles were reversed.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

They will only care when you're gone.

Marilyn Monroe, American actress and model (1926–1962)

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To be persuasive we must be believable;
to be believable we must be creditable;
to be credible we must be truthful.

Edward R. Murrow, American broadcast journalist (1908–1965)

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Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies.

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