Honesty Quotes

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

One of the principal qualities that you need as national security adviser is trust, the trust of the president. And that depends on truth and it depends on honesty.

Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.

The easiest way to gain someone's trust is to deserve it. This should be pretty easy, assuming you're just being you and being real. Minimal effort too.

There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.

I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?

She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth.

I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.

Isn't strength the ability to renounce every lie in your heart?

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

The only security lies in individual, personal honesty, The law cannot make people honest.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.

I Pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessing on this house, and on ALL that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof!

There’s no mystery to integrity. There’s no mystery to oneness. When there is a core-splitting honesty, right there, awareness knows.

From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is the best policy?]

Your best days are still out in front of you

She 's adorned Amply that in her husband's eye looks lovely,- The truest mirror that an honest wife Can see her beauty in.

Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves from ourselves.

It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

Lies are like garbage that you can't throw away. They clutter your life, foul your air, and make living unbearable.

Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.

For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.

There ought to be more scrupulous honesty in big business men than in any other human relation. For big business requires teamwork on a gigantic scale.

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

Thank you for your honesty.

Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there for their honesty and good faith?

Honesty is not synonymous with truth.

We do have to remain true to the idea of honesty within what you want to do.

Redemption is invented by the sinner.

Anything short of the discipline and honesty of a true gold coin standard will inevitably self-destruct, consuming our wealth and liberties, and nurturing the omnipotent state.

"Do you want my honest opinion?" People ask. I say, "Yes," for I'm curious. So they give me their honest opinion, And I - well, I'm always furious.

The evolution of a bourgeoisie is a healthy phenomenon when it grows and prospers thanks to bourgeois values: hard work, honesty, personal responsibility.

I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.

Honesty is the biggest thing I admire, respect, and look for. And it's something that's kind of disappearing in some people nowadays.

Honesty towards yourself. Looking into your mirror, any time all the time will guide.

The weight of great power crushes the goodness of the man who rules and the honesty of those who are ruled.

My background is putting in large systems that change lives... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency.

For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, And none but he!"

No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.

Play the work with no innuendo - just honesty. Trust will follow.

Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.

In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research.

The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.

I can't face losin' ya, Riley. Yer all I got left in this world.” That brutal honesty again. He'd peeled away more armor, and this time he'd exposed his heart.