Quotes About Honesty

When praying for healing, ask great things of God and expect great things from God. But let us seek for that healing that really matters, the healing of the heart, enabling us to trust God simply, face God honestly, and live triumphantly.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.

When you approach a problem, strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice, assemble and learn the facts of the situation, make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest, and then stick to it.

There is no other solution to a man's problems but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterance, and the day's good deed.

Half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it.

Promise and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

He's half absolv'd Who has confess'd.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

No sensible person ever made an apology.

By their fruits ye shall know them.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.

Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that worked on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn list of good intentions.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.