Quotes About Honesty

You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.

He who serves two masters has to lie to one.

The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be able to put the whole of oneself into one's feelings, one's work, one's beliefs.

The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

Good men need no recommendation and bad men it wouldn't help.

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.

If I am a great man, then a good many of the great men of history are frauds.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.

Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.

Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: "A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others."

It's no good saying one thing and doing another.

Let him that would be happy for a day, go to the barber; for a week, marry a wife; for a month, buy him a new horse; for a year, build him a new house; for all his lifetime, be an honest man.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind that I am of what is true.

"Honesty" without compassion and understanding is not honesty, but subtle hostility.

Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.

Nobody really knows Indians who cheat them and treat them badly.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

He that lives in a glass house must not throw stones.

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out; only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

He that jokes confesses.