candid advice Quotes

Your best friend is the one who tells you the most truth.

It is essential to efficient and effective administration that employees of the Executive Branch be in a position to be completely candid in advising each other on official matters ... it is not in the public interest that any of their conversations or communications, or any documents or reproductions, concerning such advice be disclosed.

Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.

There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

What it comes down to, I believe, is that mentoring often involves telling people what they need to hear, rather than what they want to hear. When you are able to be humbly honest with someone about a situation with which you have personal experience-even if you risk angering or hurting that person-you are offering the most valuable gift of all.

You need people around you who will tell you the truth and not hold anything back.

A valuable friend is one who'll tell you what you should be told, even if it offends you.

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.