Quotes About Honesty

A true party-man hates and despises candour.

Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?

If a boy, if a man, asks you if you're all right and you say yes, he'll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It's just the way they're made.

If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.

A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.

Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.

The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.

If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend.

No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest.

I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.

Candor toward a brother must not be mistaken for confession. The latter is made to the Lord of heaven and earth in the presence of a man is authorized to hear it.

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you

It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group.

Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.

A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.

Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.