Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

It's almost always possible to be honest and positive.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath. But let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay.

Trust is that there should be no difference between what you do and say, and what you think. /

I wanted to be trustworthy to the audience.

It is proof of sincerity, which I value above all things; as, between those who practice it, falsehood and malice work their efforts in vain.

Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.

Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.

Words lie. Blood doesn't.

My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?

Dogs don't lie and why should I? Strangers come they growl and bark, they know their loved ones in the dark, Now let me, by night or day, Be just as full of truth as they.

The best evidence of our having the truth is our walking in the truth.

Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.

Never break faith with the truth.

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily

Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.

Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.

Pursue truth and people will be true to you.

Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.

Everything I ever said to you was true and is true.

A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.