Lee Atwater Quotes

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.

In everything I do, whether in business, philanthropy or my personal life, I am guided by my inner truth, my values.

A spiritual life is 24 hours a day, seven days a week. How do you live? What's true? How do you respond? It's not about living by beliefs; it's about wanting to know.

With the birth of my first child and my involvement with my first husband, I basically stopped lying. I just didn't want to lie anymore, because it reduces the stature of the person you're lying to.

The thing is, about a character, it's not about being right, it's about the truth. The truth comes from within, so you have to search as an artist for the truth.

I used to lie a lot as a child, which I now regret. I think it is much easier just to tell the truth.

I think water seeks its own level, that we go through challenges to become better. And now more than ever, it's good to look at who you're following in any type of hierarchy or institution - be it a church or the government. We can see how easy it is for people to lose their footing when they have great power.

Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?

I believe every day when I wake up and go to bed and during my dreaming time there's some moment of truth that's in front of me that will always be in front of me until the end of days.

Greed can be very dangerous because you sacrifice your soul for the sake of something material, and then you start sacrificing people in order to keep that which is material.

Enough white lies can scorch the earth black.

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.

If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.

Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour.

The thing you resist is the thing you need to hear the most.

Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves!

You can recover the truth of what you really are. When you finally see yourself as you are, when you finally take responsibility for your creation, you will cleanse the lies from your own creation.

To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.

What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.

But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance; they discard humility, and aim only at being first. Therefore they shall surely perish.