“Honesty is considerably more than the absence of lying. It is the absence of deception, of cheating, of stealing, of treachery, of guile. But that is not all, honesty is the inclusion of virtuous characteristics as well: loyalty, justness, truth, accuracy, reliance, sincerity, openness. Honesty is every word, every action, and every intention being both bare and noble.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“It isn’t the education, the job, the promotion, the salary, the material increase—none of that. The real gold is the integrity you gain or lose throughout the process. If you don’t want to cross a line, don’t approach it.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Why be honest when no one else is?” This seems to be the motto of all sinking ships.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“I’m a feminist. Mostly. I’m an asshole. Mostly.”
Source: Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
“Writing is hard enough. Writing can be doubly hard when one tries to write to some unseen, unknown crowd of folks in Peoria or any other spot on the planet.”
Source: Dancing on the Head of a Pen: The Practice of a Writing Life
“To be sober, we need to be honest. We need to be all the way honest, modified only by kindness.”
Source: Being Sober and Becoming Happy: The Best Ideas from The Director of Spiritual Guidance at Hazelden
“They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard thirty years ago. They want people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all the increasingly shitty jobs with the less pay, reduced benefits, the end of overtime—and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you come to collect it. And now they’re coming for your Social Security. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal Wall Street friends. And you know what? They’ll get it! They’ll get it all. They count on the fact that Americans will remain willfully ignorant.”
The prophetic Mr. George Carlin
“It’s just a ride. We can change it any time we want. It’s just a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money—a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here’s what we can do to make this world a better ride. Take all the money we spend on weapons every year and use it to feed and clothe the poor of the world. There will be enough to help every person in the world, not one left out—and we can explore space, both inner and outer, together, in peace.”
Bill Hicks
“Try to learn to breathe deeply, really taste food when you eat, and when you sleep to really sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
William Saroyan”
“If you are OK being dishonest, circumstances will squeeze you so much that you will have no other option but to be dishonest. If you are not OK being dishonest, circumstances will allow you to stay honest.”
“Accountability is where the cowardice of my teetering self-image is wrangled into submission by the force of my ethics.”
“You cannot deceive God; He already knows. He always knows. Concentrate on being honest with yourself.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year