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Quotes About Honesty

That absolute pure honesty of the horse, man that's just the greatest thing there is
~ Buck Brannaman
Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.
~ Rembrandt
"The best of men are just men at best.
~ Alistair Begg
It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.
~ Plato
God's Word is as good as He is. There is an old saying that a man is as good as his word. Well, God is as good as His Word. His character is behind what He has said.
~ J. Vernon McGee
He who loves is not ashamed before men of what he does for God, neither does he hide it through shame though the whole world should condemn it.
~ John of the Cross
Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.
~ Herbert Hoover
When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.
~ Brennan Manning
A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.
~ John Galt
A few honest men are better than numbers.
~ Oliver Cromwell
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.
~ Herbert Hoover
A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man.
~ Martin Delany
Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
~ Anthony Trollope
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
~ H. L. Mencken
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
~ Daniel Defoe
An honest man is in Hell when he is in debt.
~ J. Golden Kimball
When I'm gone I'll be remembered as the workin' man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles.
~ Johnny Cash
If a man's handshake is no good all the {legal} paper in the world won't make it good.
~ Richard J. Daley
As far as anybody in the rap game ever tryin to assassinate my character, thats impossible. You talkin about a man who has always walked the walk and talked the talk.
~ Suge Knight
Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Always humble yourself lovingly before God and man, because God speaks to those who are truly humble of heart, and enriches them with His gifts.
~ Pio of Pietrelcina
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
~ Joseph Addison