Quotes about Candor

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Jack Welch

My bosses cautioned me about my candor. Now my GE career is over, and I'm telling you that it was my candor that helped make it work.

Socrates

An honest man is always a child.

Mark Twain

When in doubt, tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

Plato

My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

Bertrand Russell

Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.

Jimmy Carter

I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement.

Rudyard Kipling

Take up the White Man's burden— In patience to abide, To veil the threat of terror And check the show of pride; By open speech and simple, An hundred times made plain, To seek another's profit And work another's gain. Take up the White Man's burden— The savage wars of peace— Fill All the mouth of Famine, And bid the sickness cease.

The title of this controversial poem became a rallying cry for imperialists and anti-imperialists both. The imperialists saw it as a justification for expansionism and colonialism—that the white had a moral responsibility to bring civilization to the other races. To the anti-imperialists it was a racist justification for imposing Christian values on the rest of the world which didn’t want them. In the quotation example here, the poem was used to state a dilemma of foreign aid and trying to bring democracy and freedom to the world.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

Barack Obama

You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

Mike Leach

I'm not a beat around the bush kind of guy.

Michael Bloomberg

If somebody asks me where I stand, I tell them. And that's not a way to get elected, generally. Nobody's going to elect me president of the United States. What I'd like to do is to be able to influence the dialogue. I'm a citizen

Michelle Visage

I am just forthcoming - completely blunt and honest.

Wayne Dyer

People Really Do Respect Those who are Willing to Speak their Truth

Quintus Tullius Cicero

All men prefer a false promise to a flat refusal.

Michel de Montaigne

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.

Tom Waits

I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.

Cindy Sheehan

I Want The Truth

Mrs Shehan was trying to have a meeting with the President to ask why the nations was occupying Iraq.

George S. Patton

America needs some honest men who dare to say what they think, not what they think people want them to think.

Spanish Proverb

Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies

Dr. Dre

If you're not sincere with it, you shouldn't say anything at all.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Much unhappiness has come to the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Craig Revel Horwood

I like telling people the truth.

Oliver Cromwell

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

Draymond Green

My mom. Growing up with her, she always taught us to say whatever. Like, 'You think something, say it. Don't bite your tongue for people.' I think there's a fine line with that, but at the same time, I'm a firm believer in speaking your mind.

Kristin Cavallari

I say what's on my mind. I go after what I want.

Candor Quotes