Quotes About Honesty

Lakshmi is wealth accumulated through honest and fair means. Money can be stolen as well, but Lakshmi brings peace and happiness to the person who earns it.

We think cheating, in reasonable amounts, is okay. These

If we place an honest, though less wealthy person on a higher pedestal than a corrupt, yet rich individual, we will have contributed to India's progress. And

Societies that value excellence, innovation, entrepreneurship and integrity do well. If we want India to be rich, we have to value excellence and honesty first. This is where a reset, a re-prioritization of something very core to society is required. This core is our values.

Yes, honesty pays but only if all of society is honest. If only you are honest, but everyone else is not, you will suffer. This is the bottleneck obstructing change in India today. We all want to be honest, but we don't want to be the only one honest, for then we will suffer. This paradox prevents change.

Fighting corruption is not restricted to naming and shaming a few corrupt officials. If we think it is okay to cheat in exams, lie to a ticket collector in the train about our kids' ages and pay a bit of money to avoid a big traffic fine, then at some level we clearly don't care about eliminating corruption all that much. At best, we hate the politician who gets to steal (while we don't!).

Lakshmi is wealth accumulated through honest and fair means. Money can be stolen as well, but Lakshmi brings peace and

Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

With few words one can speak the truth.

It's usually when a man speaks without thinking that he says what he thinks.

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I'll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home.

One cannot think crooked and walk straight.

It is alike your interest and mine and all men's, however long we have dwelt in lies, to live in truth.

If we run from the truth of our existence we become a lie...

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.

I drink wine because I don't like to keep things bottled up.

Wine in, truth out.

In Vino Veritas. The classy thing to say when you've had too much to drink and have just said something that is decidedly not classy, in vino veritas has been employed as a mea culpa of sorts for thousands of years. In the first century AD, Pliny the Elder referred to the "common proverb that in wine, there is truth in vino veritas."

Beer is liquid frivolity Wine, scarlet truth

Virgos cannot tolerate lying, cheating, fakeness, or ignorance.

Ruth is Truth

It is forbidden to tell anything that has no foundation.