Quotes About Honesty

Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Faith never makes a confession.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Courtesy "Doth not behave itself unseemly." Unselfishness "Seeketh not its own." Good temper "Is not provoked." Guilelessness "Taketh not account of evil." Sincerity "Rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth.

You ought to live in such a way that you would be perfectly happy to have everything that you do known. And if you don't do that, maybe you'd better change a little bit.

Flattery is never so agreeable as to our blind side; commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosoms

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

Let me advise you, Madam, leave off your damn'd adulterated water, your tea, and take to wine. It will paint your face better than vermilion, and put more honesty in your heart than all the sermons you can read.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

The worst of men generally have the words rogue and villain most in their mouths, as the lowest of all wretches are the aptest to cry out low in the pit.

It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail

The natural thing to do is to work—to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort.

1. An absence of fear of the future and of veneration for the past. One who fears the future, who fears failure, limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again. There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail. What is past is useful only as it suggests ways and means for progress.

The natural thing to do is to work to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort. Human ills flow largely from attempting to escape from this natural course.

The healthy business, the business that is always making more and more opportunities for men to earn an honourable and ample living, is the business in which every man does a day's work of which he is proud. And the country that stands most securely is the country in which men work honestly and do not play tricks with the means of production. We cannot play fast and loose with economic laws, because if we do they handle us in very hard ways.

Non si può costruire una reputazione basata sull'intenzione di fare qualcosa.

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

all loans, in the eyes of honest borrowers, must eventually he repaid. All credit is debt. Proposals for an increased volume of credit, therefore, are merely another name for proposals for an increased burden of debt. They would seem considerably less inviting if they were habitually referred to by the second name instead of by the first.

People's hearts are often opened when they speak freely.