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Quotes About Honesty

Justice is the one thing you should always find.
~ Toby Keith
I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.
~ Mario Cuomo, Reason to Believe
They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.
~ Glenn Greenwald
I can get into politics. I'm a pretty straight guy for this business. I have a pretty healthy outlook.
~ Rex Smith
Morality has nothing in common with politics.
~ Bob Dylan
I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
~ Ellen Glasgow
I didn't -- I swear I didn't -- get into politics to feather my nest or feather my friends' nests.
~ George W. Bush
It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.
~ Thomas Paine
I wouldn't write about sh*t I don't know. You won't hear me write about politics in Africa and stuff, because I don't know enough about it. And I would never rap about something I can't back up.
~ Ice T
In today's politics, it would be good to have politicians who are more upfront about what they felt and actually not trying to bend with every breeze. They're infuriating, all of them.
~ Jim Broadbent
Everyone understands that [democrat Senator Harry Reid] is deliberately lying. The man reads his lies from prepared texts. You can't read from a script and then claim you misspoke.
~ Jonah Goldberg
If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
~ Will Rogers
I've accepted that I was a failure in politics. I was not qualified for the job.
~ Amitabh Bachchan
A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what's being said is the party line.
~ Colin Quinn
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.
~ Maimonides
People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.
~ Brian Tracy
Enjoy life. Have fun. Be kind. Have worth. Have friends. Be honest. Laugh. Die with dignity. Make the most of it. It's all we've got.
~ Ricky Gervais
The Prophet also said: "A truthful and trustworthy merchant is associated with the prophets."
~ Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi
Without integrity, no company can have positive word of mouth
~ Jay Abraham
I cannot be what I am not.
~ John Lennon
I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.
~ Lance Armstrong