Quotes About Honesty

For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.

Everyone knows [George W. Bush] has no clue, but no one there has the courage to say it. I mean, good gawd, the man is as he always has been: barely adequate.

I'm an enormously talented man, and there's no use pretending that I'm not.

A gentleman is one who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and who takes his share othe world and lets other people have theirs.

A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will.

I am careful about my conduct because I know this cause requires clean men.

It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from good men who praise in sincerity things that are really praiseworthy.

Restaurant Man is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.

To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.

Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light.

True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does.

There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.

It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest.

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

Don't believe the man who tells you there are two sides to every question. There is only one side to the truth.

It is criminal negligence to leave suckers lying around to tempt honest men.

When the first just and friendly man appeared on the earth, from that day a fatal Waterloo was visible for all the men of pride and fraud and blood.

The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22

All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.

Some of their faults men readily admit, but others not so readily.

I've been married 34 years. I have not been a perfect man. I have made mistakes in my life.

The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe.

The man who can accept defeat and take his salary without feeling guilty is a thief.