Quotes About Honesty

Do what you believe to be right, and ever hold it for a maxim, that if the skies fall through your doing right, honest men will survive the ruin.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe

No one is such a liar as the indignant man.

By men's words we know them.

To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.

To live, is to suffer; and the honest man is always fighting to be master of his own mind.

A man who won't lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.

The mark of an honest man... is that he means what he says and knows what he means.

A basically dishonest man can survive longer in the church or the classroom than he can in the grain exchange or the furniture business.

We are all honorable men here, we don 't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.

The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.

The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

Rather a man with 50 per cent ability and 100 per cent character than a man with 100 per cent ability and 50 per cent character.

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor pursue measures by which they may profit, and then profit by their measures.

The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.