Quotes About Honesty

Made sure you saw my feet of clay.

I'd rather be a fool than a vulture feeding off other people.

Maybe because heroes to her weren't the guys who flexed their muscles and went to battle. No, for her, the real heroes were the artists, the poets, the men who were brave enough to voice their emotions. It took courage to be honest. It took courage to face your demons head on with words, to go beyond the hunter-gatherer thing. The world needed the action hero, but it also needed the quiet hero, the poet. Rick

Though [Theophanu] was of the weak sex she possessed moderation, trustworthiness, and good manners. In this way she protected with male vigilance the royal power for her son, friendly with all those who were honest, but with terrifying superiority against rebels.

A man who evades his own conscience is a dupe.

A man who lacks reason cheats himself repeatedly.

Simplicity ought to be in the intention, purity in the affection.

Whom shall I trust, O Lord, whom shall I trust but Thee? Thou art the Truth, and deceivest not, nor canst be deceived. And on the other hand, Every man is a liar,(3) weak, unstable and frail, especially in his words, so that one ought scarcely ever to believe what seemeth to sound right on the face of it.

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

Jerome says (Ep. ad Nepot. lii): "Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being a nobody has become a celebrity.

The measure of a man's real character is what he will do if he knew he would never be found out.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.

You got to knock a man down and put your knife at his throat before he'll hear you, like I did to that trooper. The truth seems hateful to most everybody.

When you run into a story of more than three against one and one winning, then you have heard a lie.

like all wicked people he could do things which defied the means of honest men, for evil is always more easily managed than virtue.)

What most people want to keep under wraps (from reporters) is trivial: petty jealousies, professional feuds, etc. By contrast, most of the things they have thought about most seriously all their lives they are perfectly winning to uncover.

You may make as many fair speeches as you choose, but you lie.

Can there be a more horrible object in existence than an eloquent man not speaking the truth?

Nature admits no lie.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Work is the grand cure for all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.

No lie you can speak or act but it will come, after longer or shorter circulation, like a bill drawn on Nature's Reality, and be presented there for payment—with the answer, No effects.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?