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Quotes About Honesty

A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
~ Benjamin N. Cardozo
I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake.
~ Gerald R. Ford
By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.
~ Richard Dreyfuss
The blues aren't pessimistic. We're prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.
~ Cornel West
There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist
~ Charles Rennie Mackintosh
I am a very frank person and that's how I hope to remain. I don't like to pretend to be polite. What you see is what you get.
~ Fan Bingbing
Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
~ Salman Khan
I hope that's how it is on every set - or that Teen Wolf goes on forever! Our cast is so honest with each other. There's no drama. There's no judgment. We just click. It's like a family.
~ Crystal Reed
Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart - it's all a person has.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
I just hope that one day - preferably when we're both blind drunk - we can talk about it.
~ J. D. Salinger
I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.
~ Mira Sorvino
I believe anybody who tells you he is unbiased is a liar. Being human gives you bias, and you can't avoid that. The best you can ever hope to be is fair.
~ David Poole
No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.
~ John Ruskin
And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself / It's best to compose a poem, an honest verse of longing / Or a simple song of hope.
~ Conor Oberst
Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.
~ Walker Percy
I hope always to earn my living by my art without having ever deviated by even a hair's breadth from my principles... to please anyone or to sell more easily.
~ Gustave Courbet
I tell the audience every night, "I hope you didn't pay more than face value on that ticket, because we ain't worth more than that, and you ain't gonna get any more than that."
~ Billy Joel
Whatever is a cruel wrong, Whatever is unjust, The honest years that speed along Will trample in the dust.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
We must have a pure, honest, and warm-hearted motivation, and on top of that, determination, optimism, hope, and the ability not to be discouraged. The whole of humanity depends on this motivation.
~ Dalai Lama
He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.
~ Holly Black
To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.
~ Mary Augusta Ward
I would hope that we can load our moral computers with three elements of integrity: 1. Dealing justly with oneself. 2. Dealing justly with others. 3. Recognizing the law of the harvest.
~ James E. Faust
I hope people will find the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] a whole lot more than hollow.
~ Andy Cohen