November 3rd, 2018 | Updated on February 16th, 2022
This post consists of a selection of quotes about speaking the truth in order to inspire honesty and genuineness. Being honest at all times is not always easy, sometimes people might think that lying will be helpful. However, the benefits of always telling the truth to others outweigh any short-term benefits of lying.
Honesty is beneficial because it allows you to build trust with the people around you. When you are honest, it makes you feel better about yourself and attracts better friends. Being honest also earns you respect and trust from others.
Telling the truth is mentally easier because it prevents you from having to remember what you have said. It is also easier to conceal a truth than it is to remember a lie. When you lie, you have to worry about being caught, which can lead to anxiety and stress.
People will respect you more when you are honest because they know that they can trust your words. Truthfulness is a very important part of building strong credibility, and not being truthful results in a bad reputation.
If you constantly tell the truth, people will know that they can trust your words because there is no reason for you to lie about anything. This will lead to people respecting you more.
Truthfulness is a very important part of building strong credibility, and not being truthful results in a bad reputation. If you are always honest, people will know that they can trust your words, which results in more respect.
Telling the truth is not only positive but also empowering. This can be a very self-empowering thing to do, so we should all try our best at it!
If you always tell people what’s on your mind and how things really are then they’ll know that any words coming out of your mouth were thought through carefully before being spoken because there’s no reason for lying whatsoever; this leads people towards respecting us more as well.
Quotes About Speaking The Truth
1. The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.-George Carlin
2. When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.-Jess C.
3. The truth.” Dumbledore sighed. “It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.-J.K. Rowling
4. The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.-Joe Klaas
5. Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.-George Orwell
6. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.-Aldous Huxley
7. I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?-John Lennon
8. Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
9. Here’s all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.-George Carlin
10. In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.-George Orwell
11. Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.-Carlos Ruiz Zafon
12. The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.-Flannery Connor
13. The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.-Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
14. The more I see, the less I know for sure.-John Lennon
15. The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.-Jim Morrison
16. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.-Henry David Thoreau
17. The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.-Ernest Hemingway
18. It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
19. There are no facts, only interpretations.-Friedrich Nietzsche
20. There are three types of lies — lies, damn lies, and statistics.-Benjamin Disraeli
21. If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.-George Bernard Shaw
22. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.-Ernest Hemingway
23. The past has no power over the present moment.-Eckhart Tolle
24. No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.-François de La Rochefoucauld
25. Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.-Franz Kafka
26. I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.-C.S. Lewis
27. Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.-Edward Abbey
28. The only truth is music.-Jack Kerouac
29. All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.-Ernest Hemingway
30. To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.-Elizabeth Gilbert
31. The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.-David Foster Wallace
32. Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.-George R.R. Martin
33. Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand-Hayley Williams
34. It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.-George Washington
35. It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.-Lemony Snicket
