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Quotes About Honesty

Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.
~ Croft M. Pentz
Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.
~ Jim Butcher, Cold Days
Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.
~ James Russell Lowell
It doesn't mean old or younger. I've learned a lot from people much younger than me as well as people much older than me. So I think it's about honesty and generosity.
~ Kenneth Branagh
Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
~ Anais Nin
Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.
~ Brian Tracy
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
~ Mary Kay Ash
Anger cannot be dishonest.
~ George R. Bach
HE who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
~ George Berkeley
I want to be real. I want to be a real person. That's what an artist is. An artist has to be honest. Without honesty, there's nothing.
~ Miley Cyrus
When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.
~ Pamela Ribon
Raw and honest is what I go for [in my style of shooting]. I am looking for your inner beauty. The outside tells a story... But together is raw honesty.
~ Nikki Sixx
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
~ Philip Sidney
A bright future beckons. The onus is on us, through hard work, honesty and integrity, to reach for the stars.
~ Nelson Mandela
Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer.
~ Lester Maddox
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
~ Alexander Pope
Anything is better than lies and deceit!
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.
~ Anne Holm, I Am David
One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon.
~ Jamie Oliver
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
~ St. Jerome