Wilton Daniel Gregory Quotes

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

I've learned that, in many cases, people say, 'I want ground truth,' and they don't really mean it. There are warts all over this organization, as there are in many organizations, but you just have to tell truth to power and let the chips fall where they may.

In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked.

When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older.

I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

A nice person is a 'yes' person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn't afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful.

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

Hopefully as a country, that we learn from our mistakes of the past.

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.

Well I think that you have to be open and honest in order to learn from your mistakes and be able to correct them in the future to understand what would happen to take things off course. And if we don't address these issues openly and honestly then we don't learn.

You have to have courage to look back and be honest about your own drama.

Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness.

We who once were fools and dreamers, then shall we be brave and wise.

If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.

The American people are starved for two things: The truth and leadership.