Quotes About Honesty

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.

In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.

The highest kind of man is the one who does before talking and practices what he professes.

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.

If you try all different styles that are in vogue, I think you con yourself. Me, I just stick by my guns; I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.

The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness.

No matter how important a man at sea may consider himself, unless he is fundamentally worthy the sea will some day find him out.

The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent.

It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.

Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool the metal.

A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.

There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

Seek the counsel of men who will tell you the truth about yourself, even if it hurts you to hear it. Mere commendation will not bring the improvement you need.