They are naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty. Nothing counted but thoroughness and honesty. In fact, he may say almost anything if he has accepted our solution which, as you know, demands rigorous honesty.

Necessity for complete honesty.

More realism and therefore more honesty about ourselves are the great gains we make under the influence of Step Five.

Only by discussing ourselves, holding back nothing, only by being willing to take advice and accept direction could we set foot on the road to straight thinking, solid honesty, and genuine humility.

Belief in the power of God, plus enough willingness, honesty and humility to establish and maintain the new order of things, were the essential requirements.

With a proper display of honesty and morality, we'd stand a better chance of getting what we really wanted.

Willingness, honesty and open mindedness are the essentials of recovery.

Lose sense of isolation, receive forgiveness and give it; learn humility; gain honesty and realism about ourselves.

All of us saw, for example, that we lacked honesty and tolerance, that we were beset at times by attacks of self-pity or delusions of personal grandeur.

We knew we would have to quit the deadly business of living alone with our conflicts, and in honesty confide these to God and another human being.

He paid a fine tribute to the Fellowship; he told how his family had been reunited; he extolled the virtue of honesty; he recalled the joys of Twelfth Step work; and then he lowered the boom.

But they had not learned enough of humility, fearlessness and honesty, in the sense we find it necessary, until they told someone else all their life story.

Our uncompromising honesty might soon clean up politics.

The best we can do, with all the honesty that we can summon, is to try to have it.

He goes on to explain that any person capable of enough willingness and honesty to try repeatedly Step Six on all his faults -- without any reservations whatever -- has indeed come a long way spiritually, and is therefore entitled to be called a man who is sincerely trying to grow in the image and likeness of his own Creator.

We never thought of making honesty, tolerance, and true love of man and God the daily basis of living.

He finds himself in possession of a degree of honesty, tolerance, unselfishness, peace of mind, and love of which he had thought himself quite incapable.

When drinking, or getting over a bout, an alcoholic, sometimes the model of honesty when normal, will do incredible things.

Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)