Quotes About Honesty

A good teacher is one who gives honest answers.

The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.

Somebody said there are three kinds of lies: black lies, white lies, and statistics.

What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.

Truth is too big a price to pay for the luxury of avoiding pain now and then.

A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.

A poet's first contract is with truth.

Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.

The only truth slander reveals is about the coward implementing it.

What we look squarely in the eye rarely bites us in the butt.

Truth is the old way. Truth dates back to the time when your word was your bond, and you didn't need papers in a language you couldn't understand to compel you to act honestly.

Essere un rivoluzionario significa prima di tutto essere una persona onestà. Di per sé una cosa semplice, eppure così difficile.

And the greatest tragedy of our age is we don't listen to our consciences. We don't say what we think. We feel one thing and do another.

Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed – while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.

In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.

Since when do you check out other girls, girlfriend?" Dawn shrugs. There's a little shy smile on her face. "Since always." Laronda gives a loud snort-laugh and puts her hand to her mouth. "Wait, are you—

La sincérité toujours surmonte les obstacles.

I will live by the best I can discern today. Tomorrow I may find out I was wrong. Since I do not live by being right, I am not destroyed by being wrong.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

From time to time you will hear someone starting an accusation with the phrase, "But YOU told me...." When hearing this, know that you are hearing someone who demands that you think for him, but who is eager to blame you when things go wrong. Beware of weak and revengeful people who accuse, "But YOU told me....

on Paulette Goddard] It was her honesty I liked.

You don't believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they're true.

No matter what you do, be careful of what you say and if you happen to say it, do it.

You will go further, even if you may not acquire wealth, but you will be happier and well contented if you go via the straight path in life -- that is honesty and integrity.