Top 25 Candor Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Candor Quotes from famous people such as John Gerzema, Alan Dershowitz, James Bovard, Tacitus, Mitt Romney, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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All leaders, male or female, innately possess feminine qualities like empathy, candor and vulnerability – the difference lies in which leaders choose to suppress those qualities, and which choose to leverage them as strengths.
John Gerzema
Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.
Alan Dershowitz
Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president’s power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people.
James Bovard
Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
Tacitus
We expect candor and transparency from the president, from the administration.
Mitt Romney
Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor – or for that matter, arch sarcasm – by chief executives.
Alex Berenson
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 Fenimore Cooper
I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn’t live there.
James Polshek
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
Sarah Fielding
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
Madame de Stael
My candor has gotten me in a lot of trouble over the years!
Dan Pena
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
Walt Whitman
Those who are in our military and now have retired or they left the service actually respect candor. And they respect those that speak without trying to politicize who they are.
Joe Sestak
In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence.
John J. Sirica
His track record of pragmatism, depth and candor all speak to a person who would find the Tea Party simplistic, opportunistic and misguided. Reagan was surrounded by some very smart people who gave him very sound advice. They were not wondering where certain countries are on the map.
Eugene Jarecki
When former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote his recent book, ‘Duty’, it was full of tough assessments and candor.
John Dickerson
I do have a little bit of trouble with candor around the things that I used to do. I think it’s probably just resultant of shame and embarrassment and not wanting to be defined by the life that I used to live.
Julien Baker
In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
Gerald R. Ford
‘The Prince’s blunt candor has been a scandal for 500 years. The book was placed on the Papal Index of banned books in 1559, and its author was denounced on the Elizabethan stages of London as the ‘Evil Machiavel.’ The outrage has not dimmed with time.
Michael Ignatieff
There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of this religion, if it be found to be of divine origin.
Simon Greenleaf
Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It’s how true friends talk.
Peggy Noonan
Candor is the key to collaborating effectively. Lack of candor leads to dysfunctional environments.
Edwin Catmull
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
Russell Lynes
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
I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor comes a measure of vulnerability.
Sonia Sotomayor