Jack Canfield Quotes

What would happen if we spoke the truth?

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

It is very difficult to tell the truth.

OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

Anger cannot be dishonest.

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

If you want to play the game of truth, I'll tell the truth, and the truth will burn.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

I feel the weight of just telling the truth. There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

You're not going to be liked by everybody when you speak the truth. I don't speak the truth to put people down; I don't speak the truth to show disrespect.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

He that would speak the truth must have one foot in the stirrup.

I'm a writer. My job is to speak what - that which I think is true. If that bridges the gap, that's good. If it doesn't, that's too bad.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

What my thing is, I tell most of the time the truth, and sometimes it's good for me, sometimes it's bad. But, it's true.

I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.