Honesty Quotes

A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair; Honesty shines with great advantage there.

Men must be honest with themselves before they can be honest with others. A man who is not honest with himself presents a hopeless case.

We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.

Refreshing honesty has been getting me in trouble since I was five, but it's probably had some positive effects - like not being a liar.

In all honesty a gangster picture was the easiest kind of film for me to get made.

Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy

Honesty is not the best policy - merely the safest

Where I could not be honest, I never yet was valiant.

An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.

Love thyself last, cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty.

Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Brevity is the soul of wit

Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief.

When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies...

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none

A man who preserves his integrity no real, long-lasting harm can ever come.

Hiding the truth is as evil as feedingthe lie grow tough muscles.

Promised yourself never to keep quiet on the truth. Speak it out and let the lie die

Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.

Being pure in conduct also includes honesty and integrity in dealing with our fellowmen. A Christian should be known in his neighborhood or place of business as an honest person.

...[T]o be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly safer.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters

The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded--the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original]

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest.

Honesty is the only way to fight the inner demons.

A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards...in order to appeal to the irrationality, dishonesty or stupidity of others.

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.

Truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it,

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.

Lincoln admitted his infirmities to make way for his spring.

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

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.- Lucullus (Act III, scene 1)

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life … all areas of life.

The best of all lost arts is honesty

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.

We will see every human beings as Christ and we will help Hindus to be better Hindus, Muslims to be better Muslims, and Christians to be better Christians"(Mother Teresa).

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have the man looked honest enough.

Every man has his fault and honesty is his.

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

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles the character of an "Honest Man."

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.