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Quotes About Honesty

Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.
~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Money lost is bewailed with unfeigned tears. [Lat., Ploratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris.]
~ Juvenal
When it comes to sexuality, people like to tell lies. It's only when it comes to money that they lie more.
~ Volkmar Sigusch
Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.
~ Robert Foster Bennett
Whoever plays deep must necessarily lose his money or his character.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.
~ Martina Navratilova
Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Stealing money from your parents - I feel like I did that a lot and I now know as an adult that your parents knew how much money they had. Nobody was being fooled.
~ Cameron Esposito
Because gold is honest money it is disliked by dishonest men.
~ Ron Paul
As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.
~ P. T. Barnum
A Christian making money fast is just a man in a cloud of dust, it will fill his eyes if he be not careful.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Abandon money for authenticity.
~ Spencer Antle
Don't spend money that you don't have to impress people that you don't like
~ Deepak Chopra
People don't mind if you have a lot of money if they know you're working for it.
~ Jay Leno
When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money.
~ Jay McInerney
I didn't defraud the government by taking money that was not mine.
~ Wesley Snipes
If thou need money, get it in an honest way by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
Every man's credit is proportioned to the money which he has in his chest. [Lat., Quantum quisque sua nummorum condit in area, Tantum habet et fidei.]
~ Juvenal
Money is the reward for risks taken, value delivered and promises kept.
~ Robin Sharma
But he couldn't lie if you paid him and he'd starve before he stole.
~ Rudyard Kipling
I'm motivated by the laughter, honestly. It's really not about the money or being more famous. I really love creativity.
~ RuPaul
I can't count the number of people I've talked to over the course of my career who have said to me that the thing that they most regret is the one time they did something just for the money.
~ Tavis Smiley
I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.
~ Vash Young