Self-Honesty Quotes

Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself. And avoid fear, though fear is simply the consequence of every lie. Never be frightened at your own faintheartedness in attaining love, and meanwhile do not even be very frightened by your own bad acts.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself

Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.

Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits.

At the end of the day, I represent myself first and foremost, and I'm not going to ever purposely try and misrepresent myself.

You get to a point where you get tired of being stupid and selfish and not being honest with yourself.

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.

The ethos of not fooling yourself is one of the best you could possibly have. It's powerful because it's so rare.

Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.

Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.

I like having my lips done. It's my personal thing; it makes me happy. I'm honest about it; I could lie. At least I'm telling the truth!

Above all, do not lie to yourself.

The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself.

The real existential challenge is to live up to your fullest potential, along with living up to your intense sense of responsibility and to be honest to yourself about what you want.

Don't kid yourself. Be honest with yourself. Take your own inventory.

Becoming awarrior and facing yourself is a question of honesty rather than condemning yourself. By looking at yourself, you may find that you've been a bad boy or girl, and you may feel terrible about yourself. Your existence may feel wretched, completely pitch-black, like the black hole of Calcutta. Or you may see something good about yourself. The idea is simply to face the facts. Honesty plays a very important part. Just see the simple, straightforward truth about yourself.

So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

If you want to be honest with yourself, you have to take criticism, even if you attract adverse comments from others.

Politics is challenging for everyone's integrity... I have to wake up with myself every morning, and I have to be OK with the person I wake up with. If I string together too many days of waking up with a person I'm not happy to be, I have a lot bigger things at stake in my life than an election or a job.

I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.

When in doubt, tell yourself the truth.

Never, ever cheat, especially yourself, even if you are absolutely, positively sure that you can get away with it.

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

Become reality driven. Don’t kid yourself or others.

Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept.