Tracy McMillan Quotes

Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.

I can deal with imperfection, but I can't deal with people who lie to themselves and lie to the world to make the world feel better.

One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.

You've got to be who you are. You've got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you've got to be willing to express it.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

If you never lie to yourself, you'll always be happy with yourself, and eventually the person you wake up with and the person you go to sleep with is yourself.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

You've got to be genuine and not try and be someone else - but be a better you all the time.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

I think that's the most important thing you can do to be a real person - is to be honest with yourself.

I think I'm a pretty open book. We're all a work in progress, and I'm not ashamed to say that I don't have it all together - I don't really think anyone does.

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

Honesty is about the scars. It's about the blemishes. But it's more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It's about truly helping people.

I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

Be yourself, but always your better self.

God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and ourselves.

I'm not lying to myself like most people.

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.

The more horrible the truth that you admit, the better you connect. You have to tell the truth.

I don't like denial. I don't like repression.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself

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