#honest

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker. ↗

— Helen Keller

#along #also #each #heroes #honest

You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there. ↗

— David Levithan

#honesty #lies #truth #communication

Honesty is a fine foundation from which to build upon; for if one was to really know what another thinks and how they feel…they would surely treat each other differently ↗

— Jeremy Aldana

#friendship #honesty #life #communication

All individuals have moral deficiencies, and when introducing these to reality one not only strengthens himself but also the confidence of others in the human exigency for Christ due to a reflection throughout the body of Christ. ↗

— Criss Jami

#brokenness #christ #christianity #communication #confidence

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. ↗

— Spencer Johnson

#integrity #moral-courage #truth-telling #courage

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#flow #honesty #integrity #moral-courage #river

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#courage #fact #honest #knowledge #lifelong-learning

The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do. ↗

— Edward Verrall Lucas

#truth #courage

The truth is that we were so spiritually and morally bankrupt that we could not even see some of those lines: we stepped over them blindly. Other times we saw the lines alright, but we wanted to cross them. Alcohol gave us the false courage to do it and numbed our conscience as we did. Alcohol was the great enabler, and the great anesthetic. It wasn’t God who was dead. We were. – p. 116 ↗

— Ray A.

#enabler #honesty #courage

Don’t spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#lies #love #quotes #relationships #spoil