Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 18

• Trust grows when people see leaders translate their personal integrity into organizational fidelity. At the heart of fidelity lies truth-telling and promise-keeping.

  Max De Pree

  Lying, Integrity, Heart

  Max De Pree (1997). “Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community”, Jossey-Bass

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• Happiness consists of being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.

  Marcello Mastroianni

  Hurt, Able

  "Fictional character: Guido". "8½", www.imdb.com. 1963.

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• You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Writing, Reason

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• Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story.

  Lena Waithe

  Stories, Firsts, Obligation

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• My collection of rare books concerns only books that don't tell the truth.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Concern, Collections

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• I stayed in Hamburg a few more days, and during that time I received a visit from Rolf Aldag, the sporting director at T-Mobile. He advised me to tell the truth.

  Patrik Sinkewitz

  Directors, Mobile

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Many of us have caught a glimpse of our life's greatness - a grander vision that calls us to release our false 'security' and re-engage life. We begin to see life as a heart-beating, truth-telling, sweat-pouring, straight-from-the-gut adventure that makes us, and everyone around us, feel fully alive.

  Jim Warner

  Heart, Adventure, Greatness

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• Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth.

  Isabella Stewart Gardner

  Stories, Spoil, Good Story

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• I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.

  Christian Kane

  Country, Lying, People

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• When you're playing country music, you have to tell the truth.

  Christian Kane

  Country

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• I am trying to work out what my taste is, comedy-wise. I look up to stand up comedians who appear to be telling the truth, but I don't mind if they are lying.

  Jessie Cave

  Wise, Lying, Work Out

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• I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.

  Thornton Wilder

  Lying, Judging, Harm

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• He who tells the truth says almost nothing.

  Antonio Porchia

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• Make sure of two things. Be careful - microphones are always hot, and understand that in Washington, D.C., a gaffe is when you tell the truth. So, be careful.

  Joe Biden

  Two, Hot, Washington Dc

  "Biden: 'A gaffe is when you tell the truth'" by Talia Buford, www.politico.com. June 20, 2012.

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• It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.

  Edward Weston

  Artist, Cameras, Hard

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• Sometimes you have to lie to tell the truth.

  Robert J. Flaherty

  Lying, Sometimes

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  I don't think telling the truth ever gets anyone in trouble in the long run. Maybe the day after, but not in the long run.

  Steve Spurrier

  Running, Thinking, Long

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• It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.

  Ben Bradlee

  Campaigns, Claims, National Security

  "Deep Throat Revealed: Ben Bradlee". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. June 2, 2005.

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• I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.

  Cate Blanchett

  Ought

  Interview with Greg McCartney, humag.co. June, 2016.

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• We are coming out to tell the truths about gays, for I am tired of the conspiracy of silence, so I'm going to talk about it. And I want you to talk about it.

  Harvey Milk

  Tired, Gay, Silence

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• I try to take everyone's head off, to tell the truth.

  A. J. Hawk

  Trying

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• People who are most interested in telling the truth about others are generally the least interested in having the truth told about themselves.

  Mardy Grothe

  People

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• Well, you know what they say. A bullet always tells the truth.

  Christopher Walken

  Bullets, Wells, Knows

  "Fictional character: Rayburn". "Man on Fire", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.... There is a truth which is of Satan. Its essence is that under the semblance of truth it denies everything that is real. It lives upon hatred of the real world which is created and loved by God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Real, Liars, Lying

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• Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.

  Yann Martel

  Artist, Way

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