Quotes About Honesty

If you don't know how, why pretend?

Honesty is a warrant of far more safety than fame.

Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.

One of the things that attracted me to Barack [Obama] was his emotional honesty. Right off the bat he said what he felt. There are no games with him - he is who he appears to be.

To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive in following is reward.

That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.

I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of the hallmarks of realist painting.

Donald Trump tweeted out to the world a quote allegedly from Senator Tom Coburn impugning my honesty. Within hours, Tom Coburn came out publicly and said, "That quote was an utter fabrication."

If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.

I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.

People value honesty. They value integrity. They value competence and courage and all those kinds of things.

A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.

In reality, humility means nothing other than complete honesty about yourself.

What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.

Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.

Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through.

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

[Islam] inspires countless individuals to lead lives of honesty, integrity, and morality.

I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.

I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.

Your gift to God is honesty. God's gift to you is truth.

An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice and so on).

If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?