Quotes About Honesty

We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we're wrong. Someone we trust.

David [Foster Wallace] is a Cosmopolitan subscriber; he says reading 'I've Cheated - Should I Tell?' a bunch of times a year is 'fundamentally soothing to the nervous system.

Two wretched Moslems asserted "that the firing was done by the people of the English;" I asked one of them why he lied so, and he could utter no excuse: no other falsehood came to his aid as he stood abashed, before me, and so telling him not to tell palpable falsehoods, I left him gaping.

The pugnacious spirit is one of the necessities of life. When people have little or none of it, they are subjected to indignity and loss. My own men walk into houses where we pass the nights without asking any leave, and steal cassava without shame. I have to threaten and thrash to keep them honest, while if we are at a village where the natives are a little pugnacious they are as meek as sucking doves. The

Confess what you have done... Do not compound your sin by denying it.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Always tell the truth. It's the easiest thing to remember.

It's only words... unless they're true.

What people have to realize is that if one has a firm belief in God and the spirit then one does not make statements that are negative and untrue.

Our attitude toward others reveals our genuine attitude toward God.

God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

What can God do for a liar who refuses to repent? Can the Lord save him? He can't claim salvation. Baptizing him in water will not settle the trouble, unless you keep him under.

Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.

I should have roared you down when first you told me your suspicion. But I wilted, and like a Christian, I confessed. Confessed! Some dream I had must have mistaken you for God that day.

We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.

Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.

A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.

Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.

I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me

God cannot bless who you pretend to be

It is simply not consistent with either my character or my confidence in my God-given athletic ability to cheat in any way.

Sincerity carries the soul in all simplicity to open its heart to God.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God.

Actions don't only speak louder than words; actions should be used to interpret words.