Honesty Quotes

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

To be believed make the truth unbelievable.

Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable.

And thou shalt in thy daughter see, This picture, once, resembled thee.

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.

I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the streets.

Honesty is the best policy.

If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

I never ask for nothin' I don't demand of myself. Honesty, loyalty, friends and then wealth

You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

Do what is right... do it with honesty and vigor. Be creative - thats important. Dont follow what other people are doing.

Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.

Every Saturday we work in the yard, pick up the dog doo, hope that it's hard.

Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.

Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.

You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.

Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.

It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.

Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.

To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.

I like honesty and fair play.

To tell the truth, I'd scare me too.

The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

To truly be committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality.

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

People love that you're human and that we're frail and we face the same situations. Honesty tends to communicate with people better than standing up there like you have an 'S' on your chest.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.

The honest man, though e'er sae poor, Is king o' men, for a' that!

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

Meditation is simply seeing reality and acknowledging it with bare honesty.

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.