Quotes About Honesty

The concept behind personal integrity is wholeness. When a person is the same without as within, when what others know about him is the same truth he knows about himself, he has integrity.

An honest assessment of our own capabilities, without conceit and without false modesty, is one of the first essentials of a useful life.

The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.

A truth that's told with bad intention beats all the lies you can invent.

Truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the Lies you can invent.

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

When I tell any truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

Are our lives just the aggregate of the lies we've told? ('Lives' - the 'v' is silent.)

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

Thou liar of the first magnitude.

An honest man, close-button'd to the chin,Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within.

Happy the bard, (if that fair name belong To him that blends no fable with his song) Whose lines uniting, by an honest art, The faithful monitors and poets part, Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind, And while they captivate, inform the mind. Still happier, if he till a thankful soil, And fruit reward his honorable toil: But happier far who comfort those that wait To hear plain truth at Judah's hallow'd gate

I fancy you may tell the truth about yourself. But all of it? The black truth, which we all know ourselves in our heats, or only the whity-brown truth of the pericardium, or the nice, whitened truth of the shirtfront? Even you [Mark Twain] won't tell the black heart's-truth. The man who could do it would be famed to the last day the sun shown upon.

I wish you to believe whatever you think is true, at any and every cost.

Always speak and act the truth, and be kind to all who need your help.

Women lie about their age men lie about their income.

Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions.

It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of an argument, to consider, not what is true, but what is convenient.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

I'll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.

Something for nothing is not to be found on earth.

Every man in society is bound in nature and reason to contribute to the strength and welfare of society. He ought to work, to be peaceful, honest, just, and virtuous. A

Thy language will not be so trim and gaudy but thy soul and spirit may be as sound yea more upright, than many of those will be found who charm the ears of those that join with them by the music their words make.

If he cannot shed tears, much less will he bleed for truth.