Honesty Quotes

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

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

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

The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. And that opinion becomes more important than all our sneaky, sleazy schemes of greed, lust, self-aggrandizement, whatever we are up to while lying the world into believing we are just plain nice folks.

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

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

With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.

It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my new look he put down his fork and stared at me for a few moments. "A bow tie announces to the world you can no longer get an erection.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

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

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

A liar should have a good memory.

The instances of honesty that one comes across in this world are just as amazing as the instances of dishonesty. After forty-five years of mixing with one's kind, one ought to have acquired the habit of being able to know something about one's fellow beings. But one doesn't

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors

It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest: better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune. . . .

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

Yes, confidence was knowing I could do anything. But, I realized, confidence must always be rooted in work. In sweat. In pain-good pain. And in honesty.

It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

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

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

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.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding.

Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste.

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

honesty is hard work.

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.

Honesty is probably the sexiest thing a man can give to a woman.

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which have built great men and women and point the way by which one may find happiness in the living of today and eternal joy in the world to come. These are the qualities which are the anchors to our lives, in spite of the trials, the tragedies, the pestilences, and the cruelties of war which bring in their wake appalling destruction, hunger, and bloodshed

When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.

Golf is based on honesty, where else would you admit to a seven on a par three?

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

Honesty is praised and left in the cold.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing

When we are not honest, we are cut off from a significant resource of ourselves, a vital dimension that is necessary for unity and wholeness.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! - Marmion.

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

What our grandmothers told us about playing hard to get is true. The whole point of the game is to impress and capture. It's not about honesty. Many men and women, when they're playing the courtship game, deceive so they can win. Novelty, excitement and danger drive up dopamine in the brain. And both sexes brag.

The honester the man, the worse luck.

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

The self- explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.

Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.

When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

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

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

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.

When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.

Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee

Be content to seem what you really are.

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

In all honesty, we don't know what's in the hearts of other men. All I know is that I respect comedy and I know comedy. I would never, ever, ever take somebody else's joke.

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

A friend is the hope of the heart.

True friends stab you in the front.

Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest.

I feel honesty always works.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

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