Quotes About Honesty

When I interview someone, I know in the first two minutes if I like them or not. I find that if it's easy to talk to someone and I see an openness and honesty and integrity, then I usually hire them.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

No one is perfect but without honesty you've got nothing.

Our success is directly related to our clarity and honesty about who we are, who we're not, where we want to go, and how we're going to get there.

No truth could ever fear me.

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

I like to see honesty out of people. People who are trustworthy. I like to see people who are involved with The Lord.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

Before you place your financial future in the hands of an adviser, it's imperative that you find someone who not only makes you comfortable but whose honesty is beyond reproach.

I'd say honesty is always the best policy. There are always a lot of arguments - but even if honesty starts some, it avoids bigger ones.

If honesty did not exist, it would have to be invented, as it is the surest way of getting rich.

Honesty doesn't always pay, but dishonesty always costs.

Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed.

No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.

In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that, the rest is easy.

The only appropriate response to the question, 'Can I be frank?' is, 'Yes, if I can be Barbara.

A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means to your character.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends on one's values.

How much more can you give? Other than, literally, open-heart surgery onstage? Not much. But the only cure you have right now is the honesty of going, this is who you are. I know who I am.

I believe the best test of our integrity and honesty is when we personally enforce in our own lives that which ultimately cannot be enforced.

Honesty and unpopular opinions are the toughest sell in a country with an irony-deficiency.

There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.