Quotes About Honesty

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.

Friendship is a mirror, so that nothing can be hidden.

Anyone who criticizes you cares about your friendship. Anyone who makes light of your faults cares nothing about you.

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

Friendship requires great communication.

Your true friends dont shy away from keeping you in check because your wellbeing is more important to them than even your friendship and they'd rather risk offending you than watch you harm yourself.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

Write in the sand the flaws of your friend.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Friends don't spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.

You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.

If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.

An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.

Say what you mean to do...and take it for granted you mean to do right. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one...you will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

Only friendship which can stand occasional plain speaking is worth having.

Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.