Quotes About Honesty

Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.

There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

If you come home with your panties still on, I am never speaking to you again.

I'd like to say that I'm a rock star, but I'm not - I'm honestly more of a relationship kind of guy. I'm a guy you could take home to meet your mum rather than a guy your mum wouldn't like.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty.

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

People of integrity and honesty not only practice what they preach, they are what they preach.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.

Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production.

Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.

The public want honesty from their politicians. Not showy gimmicks.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.