Candor Quotes

“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Can you tell me where to find Tobias'? I ask. When I imagine his face, affection for him bubbles up inside of me and all I want to do is kiss him. 'Four, I mean. He's so handsome, isn't he? I don't really understand why he likes me so much. I'm not very nice, am I?'
-Tris”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“The reality of grief is far different from what others see from the outside. There is pain in this world that you can't be cheered out of. You don't need solutions. You don't need to move on from your grief. You need someone to see your grief, to acknowledge it. You need someone to hold your hands while you stand there in blinking horror, staring at the hole that was your life. Some things cannot be fixed. They can only be carried.”
― Megan Devine, It's OK That You're Not OK

“When we are locked up between a mood of 'transparency' and a feel of 'discretion,' we must clear up our mental muddle, until we find the "golden ratio," and recognize the peak of 'candor.' By hitting the point of recognition and enlightenment, we can make a correct choice and follow the right track ("Unfulfilled meeting")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“When you try to take someone's pain away from them, you don't make it better. You just tell them it's not OK to talk about their pain.”
― Megan Devine, It's OK That You're Not OK

“True comfort in grief is in acknowledging the pain, not in trying to make it go away. Companionship, not correction, is the way forward.”
― Megan Devine, It's OK That You're Not OK

“Every loss is valid. And every loss is not the same. You can't flatten the landscape of grief and say that everything is equal. It isn't.”
― Megan Devine, It's OK That You're Not OK

“It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization

“To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“In a few minutes nobody will know what I did. Everything will be perfect again. Except for my life.

[Oscar Banks]”
― Pam Bachorz, Candor

“Essentially there are two actions in life: Performance and excuses. Make a decision as to which he will accept from yourself.”
― Steven Brown

“Clare wasn't worried anymore about their being mean to each other. She imagined that someday she'd be part of a friendship in which she and the friend thought so highly of each other and were so sure of this that they could say anything.”
― Marisa de los Santos, Love Walked In

“The more there is about the individual that deviates in an undesirable direction from what might have been expected to be true of him, the more he is obliged to volunteer information about himself, even though the cost to him of candor may have increased proportionally.”
― Erving Goffman, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity

“Do not allow your inner doubts to keep you from achieving what you can do.”
― Lolly Daskal, The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness

“Since we're all snails riding on the razor's edge, we might as well say it as it is.”
― Peter Tieryas, United States of Japan

“The more pleasure a universe can yield, other things being equal, the more beneficent and generous is its general nature; the more pains its constitution involves, the darker and more malign its total temper. To deny this would seem impossible, yet it is done daily; for there is nothing people will not maintain when they are slaves to superstition; and candor and a sense of justice are, in such a case, the first things lost.”
― George Santayana, The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One

“When your intuition is strong, follow it.”
― Lolly Daskal, The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness

“Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act decisively without needing to know why.”
― Lolly Daskal, The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness

“Nothing in the world is harder than candour, and nothing is easier than flattery.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“The ceremony was elegant and yet surprisingly intimate. The pastor read from Second Corinthians, and then Megan and Daniel recited vows they'd written together. They promised patience when it was easy to be impatient, candor when it was easier to lie, and in their own ways, each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

“What would it be like to admit that aloud - that you were angry, that the day had worn on you, to say those things, and to feel them, without worrying how they might look to whoever you were talking to? To let the ugly emotions you harbored, your anger and dissatisfaction and irritation, seep into your words without censoring them.”
― Kelly Loy Gilbert, When We Were Infinite

“Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady.

Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant.

Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.”
― Yukteswar Giri

“[Vandenberg] said: "I do not know why we must be the only silent partner in this Grand Alliance. There seems to be no fear of disunity, no hesitation in Moscow, when Moscow wants to assert unilateral war and peace aims which collide with ours. There seems to be no fear of disunity, no hesitation in London, when Mr. Churchill proceeds upon his unilateral way to make decisions often repugnant to our ideas and ideals....
"Honest candor compels us to reassert in high places our American faith in the Atlantic Charter. These basic pledges cannot now be dismissed as a mere nautical nimbus. They march with our armies. They sail with our fleets...they sleep with our martyred dead. The first requisite of honest candor...is to relight this torch.
"I am not prepared to guarantee permanently the spoils of an unjust peace. It will not work. I am prepared by effective international cooperation to do our full part in charting happier and safer tomorrows.”
― T.R. Fehrenbach, This kind of peace

“Small truths have greater power than big lies.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“I wonder what became of you, your Johnny
Rotten skin, no Emerald City eyes.
You'd have been a beauty if you let inferiority
steam your glasses with its candor, sans laughter.”
― Kristen Henderson, Of My Maiden Smoking

“Lack of candor, we find upon examination, is not only the cause of many of our greatest problems, but also the impediment to solving most of our problems.”
― J.S. Felts, Ageless Wisdom: A Treasury of Quotes to Motivate & Inspire

“A reprimand does not often repair underperformance. It takes coaching, culture and candor.”
― Janna Cachola, Lead by choice, not by checks

“A leader’s job isn’t to look strong; it’s to make truth unavoidable.”
― Frank Halden, THE SILENCE THAT BROKE ME: I THRIVED IN THE PRESSURE COOKER — UNTIL I DROWNED

“He said what he meant and wasted no words.”
― Christopher Paolini, Brisingr

“By not conveying what needs to be conveyed to maintain some short-term harmony, you can also prevent others from making decisions that are informed and mature. This may cause many problems to remain unsolved or deteriorate, and you may even lose people’s trust and become less well-regarded by others.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond