Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

When you lay your life out there, you want it to be as true as possible.

I try and be truthful.

I'm see-through. And I'm the worst liar of all time.

I am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no 'behind closed doors' with me.

You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come out. The good, the bad, the ugly.

I love being gut-wrenchingly honest.

I try to just be as real and open as possible.

I am completely 100 percent honest in what I do and who I am, and I've got nothing to hide.

As for me, I've chosen to follow a simple course: Come clean. And wherever possible, live your life in a way that won't leave you tempted to lie. Failing that, I'd rather be disliked for who I truly am than loved for who I am not. So, I tell my story. I write it down. I even publish it. Sometimes this is a humbling experience. Sometimes it's embarrassing. But I haul around no terrible secrets.

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'

I'm not good at hiding my feelings. I'm also not good at lying. I'm very open about everything.

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

Honesty will never break you.

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

In order to be transparent, you really have to be completely honest and open, so that's how I've lived my life, and that's where I am now. I am completely transparent. There's nothing that you can't ask me and nothing I won't talk about.

I'm just a real person and I tell it like it is. I don't have a lot of secrets, which has been a fault of mine.

I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real.

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

Honesty is all you need.

Honesty has always worked for me.

I generally like to be up front and honest and open because that's how I've always been. I have nothing to hide, and I think people relate to you more when you're just yourself.

Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I'm the opposite; I'd rather have people make me cry with the truth than try to make me smile.

I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

The art of life is to show your hand.