Quotes About Honesty

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

Where thou findest a Lie that is oppressing thee, extinguish it. Lies exist there only to be extinguished; they wait and cry earnestly for extinction.

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

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

A man wrote a letter to the IRS saying, "I have been unable to sleep knowing that I have cheated on my income tax. I have understated my taxable income and have enclosed a check for $150. If I still can't sleep, I will send the rest.

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.

Fie on these dealers in poison, say I: can they not keep to the old honest way of cutting throats, without introducing such abominable innovations from Italy?

Honest labor bears a lovely face.

I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.

A player is someone - a guy - that messes with girls' emotions just to try and get what they want. I've been asked, 'Do you consider yourself a player?' And the answer is no. I don't think I'm anywhere near that.

I've burned all my bridges for the sake of getting as near as I can to the truth. And after years of searching for the truth, you find that that's all you can bear. The truth and nothing but the truth.

I've met so many leaders who realize that telling your colleagues something that is on your mind is so much easier than keeping it in. Sometimes the things we make up in our heads are not nearly as big a deal as we think.

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

I don't necessarily think that the world should know everything, and even if you consider yourself to be extremely honest, that doesn't mean you have to blurt everything out all the time.

Confession alone is not necessarily good for the soul.

Honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out.

I don't always think it's necessary for somebody to be nice all the time.

A good memory is needed after one has lied.

Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.

In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just what I've always liked - people who would talk real honestly about their lives and their circumstance.

Whether it's Neil Young or Johnny Rotten, a band has to have someone like that: someone who you listen to and know that he believes what he says.