Quotes About Honesty

People with good intentions make promises. People with good character keep them.

Worry about your character and not your reputation, because your character is who you are, and your reputation is only what people think of you.

Actions speak louder than words.

Never try to destroy someone else's life with a lie when yours can be destroyed with the truth.

Sincerity is not to say everything you think but to mean everything you say.

I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.

Don't do that," he says. "Don't ask me questions you already know the answers to. Twice I've laid myself bare to you and all it's gotten me was a bullet wound and a broken heart. Don't torture me," he says, meeting my eyes again. "It's a cruel thing to do, even to someone like me.

Feelings are like toes! They have to breathe free or they'll stink to high heaven!

He walked out without his money. The lesson to me was clear: hold onto your integrity at all costs. Never compromise on that.

My heart is pure as the driven slush.

I'd be more open than a book too. My spine would crack, I'd fall out in halves.

After all, an apology forced before the speaker was ready to speak it was surely more insulting than no apology.

It's not just how firm a man's handshake is that define him, son. Any fool can have a strong grip. It's the way a man meets your eyes, or doesn't, that tells you who he is. That says whether he's dealing with you honestly or not.

a truth does not take too long to tell, only a fiction requires so much thought

I'm telling you, you did what you believed you had to do through all of this. Not what was easiest or best for you. You did what you did, and you're owning it. And I don't know ten men who would be brave enough to do that.

My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting.

There was something about this girl's body language, the way she kept darting a look at Leanne, then turning her eyes quickly away, that made her think maybe she was telling the truth. In Leanne's experience, if people were lying, they tended either to look away the whole time or to fix you with intense eye contact as if daring you to disbelieve them.

Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.

People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market. But the problem is that it's all backwards. It's not that you do the right thing and hope it pays off; the morally right thing is by definition the thing that gives the biggest payoff.

Here's a little tip for you. If you don't like being called a murderer, don't kill people.

It meant nothing. Some people are like that: everything comes out like a lie. Not that they're brilliant liars, just that they're useless at telling the truth. You get left with no way to tell what's the real fake and what's the fake one.

You had as good a chance as I did. I told you everything I saw, as I saw it at the time. And if that was in itself deceptive, remember, I told you that, too: I warned you, right from the beginning, that I lie.

She was telling the truth, but that didn't mean she was right.