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Quotes About Honesty

Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.
~ Peter Mandelson
I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior, he said. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.
~ Unknown
Many persons have an idea that one cannot be in business and lead an upright life, whereas the truth is that no one succeeds in business to any great extent, who misleads or misrepresents
~ John Wanamaker
Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy rather in power than use; and keep thy friend under thine own life's key; be checked for silence, but never taxed for speech.
~ William Shakespeare
The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
~ John Lyly
The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
~ Voltaire
It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
~ John Bradshaw
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
~ Richard Bach
Those who tell the young man to live well and the old man to die well is nothing but a fool, not only for what life has in happiness to both young and old, but also for one must be careful in live honestly as well as die honestly.
~ Epicurus
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
~ Winston Churchill
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
~ Buddha
Life is too short to hide your feelings. Don't be afraid to say what you feel.
~ Unknown
Always tell someone how you feel because opportunities are lost in the blink of an eye but regrets can last for a lifetime.
~ Unknown
Always tell people exactly how you feel, because opportunities are lost in the blink of an eye but our regrets can last a lifetime.
~ Unknown
Life is to short to hide feelings. So don't be afraid to tell people how you feel. You never know if they have the same feelings.
~ Unknown
Life's too short to hide feelings, express how you feel. You never know if they have the same feelings.
~ Unknown
Work hard with honesty. Life is too short to go it waste. Make your life meaningful, break your ego, forgive quickly, live truly, laugh loudly, have faith in self and never avoid anything which makes you smile.
~ Anil Sinha
It's better to be slapped by the truth than kissed with a lie.
~ Unknown
Better to come into the truth late than never.
~ Unknown
You're going to meet people who lie to get what they want, but they teach you a valuable lesson. Who not to trust.
~ Unknown
Speak the truth to all. It makes our heart lighter and our life easier. And we won't have to worry about which lie we've told to whom.
~ Mufti Ismail Menk
Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.
~ Pema Chodron