Honesty Quotes
In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.
Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.
The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his own corruption.
When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.
Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.
The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.
Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.
There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.
Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.
I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!
Winston Churchill was a man of blood and a politico without principle, whose apotheosis serves to corrupt every standard of honesty and morality in politics and history.
It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.
Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind
Intimacy with God is that I can come in with the honesty of my heart, tell Him how much I'm hurting.
The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through.
No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest.
Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.
I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.
People value honesty. They value integrity. They value competence and courage and all those kinds of things.
That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.
A tranquil conscience invites freedom from anguish, sorrow, guilt, shame, and self-condemnation. It provides a foundation for happiness. It is a condition of immense worth.
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.
Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in hell.
As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter.
The sun is our father, the earth is our mother. And God is a myth destroying our family.
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
