With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.
Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
A man who will steal for me will steal from me." Theodore Roosevelt, dismissing on the spot one of his best cowhands who was about to claim for his boss an unmarked animal.
To be honest, as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.Hamlet Act II, Scene II Lines 178-179
Lincoln admitted his infirmities to make way for his spring.
All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that her bad performance was spoiling the whole affair.
The more honest you are, the more open, the less fear you will have, because there's no anxiety about being exposed or revealed to others.
A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards...in order to appeal to the irrationality, dishonesty or stupidity of others.
Honesty is the only way to fight the inner demons.
