Honesty Quotes

Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

Let's tell the truth. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.

Don't try to tell me what I am because I know what I am not

Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.

Honesty is the greatest aphrodisiac.

What I've learned is that the most precious commodity you can have in a relationship is honesty, good or bad.

I find in animals the same thing I find so wonderful in children. That purity, that honesty, where they don't judge you, they just want to be your friend. I think that is so sweet.

There is no greater virtue than honesty.

For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.

If strength is measured by intelligence, honesty and depth of character, then yes, strong women are hot as hell.

Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... But rather mourn the apathetic throng - The cowed and the meek - Who see the world's great anguish and its wrong And dare not speak!

Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.

When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to ''achieve'' or feel insecure if people tune-in to you and what you are doing.

Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.

Good thoughts bear good fruit.

The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.

No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.

The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm

Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.

Patriotism ruins history.

Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.

There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.

If honesty was like water that people couldn't live without it, the world which became heavier due to the endless lies would be just light like a feather!

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.

Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.

When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

You can't cheat an honest man.

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

Our success is directly related to our clarity and honesty about who we are, who we're not, where we want to go, and how we're going to get there.

I've always been about honesty, whether on the radio, whether I did a movie, whether I wrote a book. As long as you're honest, you don't lose your edge.

Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy.

May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances.

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

No truth could ever fear me.

I don't know if any of us are mature enough to handle the brutal honesty of what's inside other people's heads.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation.

Golf is based on honesty, where else would you admit to a seven on a par three?

Detachment is not about refusing to feel or not caring or turning away from those you love. Detachment is profoundly honest, grounded firmly in the truth of what is.