Quotes About Honesty

You can only push the truth down for so long, and then it bubbles back up.

Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.

We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved again. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

Resorting to lying or cheating in any competition amounts to conceding defeat.

The easiest way to be inscrutable is to be completely straightforward and honest. Then no one will be able to figure out what you're up to.

Never make a cheater your partner. Never make your partner a cheater.

Relying on theft and deceit is an unconscious admission of incompetence.

That is what philosophers are good for: stating the obvious that no one else is emotionally willing to admit.

Honesty is the best policy that almost no one uses.

Honesty, not modesty, is a virtue.

The truth never hurts — much.

Speak the truth and you will be conspicuous. The human race loves novelty.

I was naive and thought we could express our feelings to each other- not suppress them and keep holding them back. Well, it was what I felt, and why should I be untrue to myself? I came to believe the importance that if you feel something strong enough then you should say it.

Insincerity is always weakness sincerity even in error is strength.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

Show me a liar, and I'll show thee a thief.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.

There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.

He who speaks of his own accord seeks glory for himself; but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and there is no deception in his heart.

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

Here I should like to remark, for the sake of princes and princesses in general, that it is a low and contemptible thing to refuse to confess a fault, or even an error. If a true princess has done wrong, she is always uneasy until she has had an opportunity of throwing the wrongness away from her by saying: 'I did it; and I wish I had not; and I am sorry for having done it.

I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.