Honesty Quotes

Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.

Brahms stayed an extra day to hear my [Fifth] Symphony and was very kind ... I like his honesty and open-mindedness. Neither he nor the players liked the finale, which I also think rather horrible.

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

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.

What’s the secret to success? It’s no secret. You need a winning attitude, honesty and integrity, and a burning desire to succeed.

I like to talk. I'm a terrible dancer. I love my hometown. I have freckles and oversized ears. I'm a geeks. I have tried not to hide who I am or what matters to me.

I think too many people, if you are 46 you want to look 36, and if you're 36 you want to look 26. I didn't want to do that. I've earned the gray hairs. So I wanted to show that level of honesty.

It 's guid to be merry and wise, It 's guid to be honest and true, It 's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.

I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self.

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.

The whole of my life, what they wanted was honesty. They were not concerned with cultured football, but with triers who gave one hundred percent.

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.

The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.

To live a life of honesty and integrity is a responsibility of every decent person.

Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.

A good man will find that there is goodness in the world; an honest man will find that there is honesty in the world; and a man of principle will find principle and integrity in the hearts of others.

All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Don’t be afraid to make people mad. Your honesty will inspire your true followers. I piss off tons of people every day.

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief.

Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss.

The badge of honesty is simplicity.

In times to come people will not judge us by the creed we profess or the label we wear or the slogans we shout, but, by our work, industry, sacrifice, honesty and purity of character.

An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it.

Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest.

When truth is divided, errors multiply.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible.

Nothing is more hateful to me than photography coated with gimmicks, poses and false effects. Therefore let me speak the truth in all honesty about our age and the people of our age

Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.

Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.

Honesty in art inspires and moves me. I am passionate about creating truthful experiences as much as I love being the spectator to a brilliant body of work.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.