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Quotes About Honesty

I've always had good friends and people know that I've got no ax to grind.
~ George Hamilton
If you want to be good, all you've got to do is be good.
~ George Saunders
Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The more facts I can have, the better. I can operate very nicely between them, but I am not very good at making things up. I am not sure how ethical it is.
~ Hilary Mantel
I never was a very good singer.
~ Jackson Browne
Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.
~ Jane Smiley
Donald [Driver] is a good guy, a righteous guy. I have no beef with him. But I have multiple sources on this; people not connected with one another who verified it.
~ Jeff Pearlman
I'm a pretty bad liar, and I'm not very good at keeping secrets.
~ Jennifer Love Hewitt
I'm a pretty bad liar, and I'm not very good at keeping secrets. I'm one of those people who is like, "Let me tell you what happened today. You're never going to believe it!"
~ Jennifer Love Hewitt
If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough.
~ Jenny Holzer
Suddenly, I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to pretend I'm fooling the world when I'm not. I want someone else to have a plan for me, because I'm not doing a very good job myself.
~ Jodi Picoult
To play a good guy is nice because in a way, he is so open for answers.
~ Joel Gretsch
That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.
~ John Fogerty
I think people relate to the music because I have a sense of empathy, and I think I have a good understanding about relationships, and I talk about them in a real, honest way
~ John Legend
No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
~ John Ruskin
To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.
~ Josh Billings
I want my arguments to be good arguments on the basis of what I actually have to say.
~ Judith Butler
I'm not good at keeping secrets. If I'm entrusted with a secret from a friend, I can do that because I'm a good friend, but I don't like having secrets, it makes me nervous.
~ Julia Stiles
People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.
~ Livy
Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.
~ Luigi Pirandello
To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed going on about them.
~ M. Ageyev
It matters not to be a Jewish or a Muslim or a Christian! What really matters is to be good by heart, to be honest and fair!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I just go for what makes me feel good. Especially in 2011, it's so easy to sound like a dickhead when describing yourself because anything anyone says is a catch-word or a buzz-phrase.
~ Mike Tucker