18 Inspiring Quotes about
Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It’s how true friends talk.
(Peggy Noonan)
Straightforward frankness, openness and honesty
Don’t make people guess how to work with you, what you need, and what you expect. Be candid and tell them!
(Shari Harley)
…accept your own shortcomings with candor…
(Russell Lynes)
There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery.
(Fyodor Dostoevsky)
If you reward candor, you’ll get it.
(Jack Welch)
Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness.
(Rick Warren)
A No uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a Yes merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
(Mahatma Gandhi)
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)
The people who enlighten us are the ones who tell us their secrets.
(Marty Rubin)
Candor is always a double-edged sword. It may heal, or it may separate.
(Wilhelm Stekel)
Straightforwardness intimidates people. They prefer the veneer, despite what they claim.
(Donna Lynn Hope)
In the guise of frankness many people ruin their world by saying unpleasant things to friends and family.
(Girdhar Joshi)
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
(Cicero)
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
(Walt Whitman)
Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they’ve got. It’s a killer.
(Jack Welch)
Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.
(Benjamin Disraeli)
There is no diplomacy like candor.
(E.V. Lucas)
…honesty needs no disguise nor ornament: be plain.
(Thomas Otway)
