Candor Quotes

• La franqueza es un cumplido; implica igualdad. Así hablan los verdaderos amigos.

  Peggy Noonan

  Friendship, True Friend, Communication

  "What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era". Book by Peggy Noonan, 1990.

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• Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Block, Smart

  Jack Welch, Suzy Welch (2009). “Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To Book”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• Lo que la salud mental necesita es más luz solar, más franqueza, más conversaciones sin tapujos.

  Glenn Close

  Necesidades, Salud Mental, Luz Solar

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• In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Honesty, Lying, Simple

  "13th Article simple yet powerful" by Chris Morales, www.ldschurchnews.com. September 21, 2007.

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• There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  People, World, Lasts

  "Citas personales/ Biografía". www.imdb.com.

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• The loss of candor is grievous, and in my opinion it may yet prove to be mortal, because if we cannot discuss our problems in plain speech that describes reality, it is unlikely that we will be able to solve them.

  Alexander Haig

  Truth, Loss, Reality

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• If you reward candor, you'll get it.

  Jack Welch

  Rewards, Ifs

  "Jack Welch: Create Candor in the Workplace". "Jack Welch: Create Candor in the Workplace" by Lisa Vollmer, www.gsb.stanford.edu. April 1, 2005.

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• All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

  Walt Whitman

  Perfect, May, Faults

  Walt Whitman Floyd Stovall (2007). "Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose", p.451, NYU Press

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• A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

  Agnes Repplier

  Peace, Ubuntu, World

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• El candor es la joya más brillante de la crítica.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Criticism, Sincerity, Gems

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• La sinceridad es siempre la mejor política.

  George Washington

  Honesty, Supposing That, Openness

  George Washington John Jay, Jared Sparks (1850). "Discurso de despedida de Washington al pueblo de los Estados Unidos de América", p.46, New York : J. Wiley

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• Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

  James F. Cooper

  Inspirational, Men, Gentleman

  "The American Democrat". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, p. 115, 1838.

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• No nos avergoncemos de decir lo que no nos avergüenza pensar.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pensar, Hablar, Vergüenza

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• Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

  Tácito

  Generosity, Ruins, Moderation

  "Quote Junkie: Greek and Roman : An Interesting Collection of Quotes from the Greatest Greek and Roman Philosophers and Leaders". Book edited by the Hagopian Institute, p. 62, 2008.

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• Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

  George MacDonald

  Inspirational, Truth, Honest

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.7592, e-artnow

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• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  E. V. Lucas

  Diplomacia

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• Bondadoso con todos, con nadie servil, Sin ofender dijo la palabra que quería decir

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Speech, Spokes, Gracious

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• It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Confused, Worship, Sincerity

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• It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

  Russell Lynes

  Honesty, Accepting, Polite

  Russell Lynes (1991). "Life in the slow lane: observations on art, architecture, manners and other such spectator sports", Harpercollins.

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• Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.

  Asa Gray

  Causes, Theory, Refreshing

  Asa Gray (1973). "Cartas de Asa Gray"

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• Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.

  John Dryden

  Mean, Ignorant, World

  John Dryden (1750). “Select essays on the belles lettres”, p.95

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• I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.

  John O. Brennan

  Thinking, Speaking My Mind, Giving

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• Queremos que todos nuestros amigos nos digan nuestras malas cualidades; es sólo al imbécil particular que lo hace a quien no podemos tolerar.

  William James

  Mejor Amigo, Amistad Bonita, Calidad

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• La franqueza y la responsabilidad en una democracia son muy importantes. La hipocresía no tiene cabida.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Hypocrisy, Accountability, Political

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• If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter.

  Ron Suskind

  Writing, Loss, Office

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