Honesty Quotes

I am an advocate of honesty and openness, and I think deceit is a dangerous seed to plant and let grow in relationships.

You have to pretend like you want to use a condom. I like to say something fun when I bring it up, but honest. I'll be like, 'You're going to want to wear this. I've had a busy month.

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

Man, I need to impress her, cause I'd like to undress her.

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

The essay must be artistically rendered: You must keep the reader engaged, whether with wit, conflict, mischief, and/or yes, with honesty.

When I interview someone, I know in the first two minutes if I like them or not. I find that if it's easy to talk to someone and I see an openness and honesty and integrity, then I usually hire them.

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.

Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important.

Some people say I'm obnoxious and lazy, that I'm uneducated, that my opinion means nothing, but I know I'm a real good dancer.

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness and industry.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

The honester the man, the worse luck.

Drawing is the honesty of the art.

Therefore, since we may say, after such long experience, that religion does not imply exact honesty, we are authorized by the same reasons to think that atheism does not exclude it.

She had learned, in the slums of her childhood, that honest people were never touchy about the matter of being trusted.

Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest.

No one is perfect but without honesty you've got nothing.

An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.

All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.

I like to see honesty out of people. People who are trustworthy. I like to see people who are involved with The Lord.

God was created by evolution, inside the imagination of a primate.

Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.

Honesty is most important, and it's difficult when you're young and single and sort of figuring out your own life.

Speak your truth quietly & clearly; and listen to others, even the dull & ignorant; they too have their story.

Honesty doesn't always pay, but dishonesty always costs.

Hold firmly to your word.

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

If honesty did not exist, it would have to be invented, as it is the surest way of getting rich.

I'd say honesty is always the best policy. There are always a lot of arguments - but even if honesty starts some, it avoids bigger ones.

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Before you place your financial future in the hands of an adviser, it's imperative that you find someone who not only makes you comfortable but whose honesty is beyond reproach.

I strive for honesty in playing what I feel.

There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the morning. Seeing a bucket of perfectly lucid water We fall to imagining prodigious honesties.

Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed.

No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

Dear dad, you always told me that an honest man has nothing to fear, so I'm trying my best not to be afraid.

Love isn't about honesty. It's about protecting the people you love from things that will hurt them.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Therefore, let me in honesty speak the truth about our epoch and people.

Every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger.

In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that, the rest is easy.