Quotes About Honesty

I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer, " he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

Sometimes all it takes is one person to speak their truth. Speak yours.

Neither a fake friend nor a liar can be trusted, with a secret.

Words only make sense when the person who says them means a lot.

Her two outstanding characteristics were self-confidence and candor. The latter sometimes got her into hot water Durrance later told Charlotte, but the former kept it from scalding her.

To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state government and its officials must be open, honest and transparent.

When I see other rappers' lyrics of "I don't do what I don't like to do", I feel like it's really cool and there's also an envious side to me about it.

I hate people who act too cool for school. Just own up to it, dude.

A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.

I don't hate Coldplay to be cool I genuinely hate Coldplay.

I'm not really cool, or dashing, or any of those things.

I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.

As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around.

It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.

To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.