Quotes About Honesty

To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man

To Thine Ownself Be True

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

We ask a simple question And that is all we wish: Are fishermen all liars? Or do only liars fish?

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

Glances Two people meet. The sky turns winter, quells whatever they would say. Then, a periphery glance into danger - and an avalanche already on its way. They have been honest all their lives; careful, calm, never in haste; they didn't know what it is to meet. Now they have met: the world is waste. They find they are riding an avalanche feeling at rest, all danger gone. The present looks out of their eyes; they stand calm and still on a speeding stone.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

Taking responsibility for your life means owning your failures and faults as well as your successes and strengths.

the golden pathway to learning, not just in music but in anything in life, is through one's own, individual, honest mistakes.

Only an unwillingness to be open and honest can keep us from the conclusion that both reason and experience tell us that what the Bible says about us is true. We are without excuse if we remain in denial.

When you put it together, it looks like this: Our natural condition is weak and fallen and our temptations are numerous; God is infinitely holy, yet He offers forgiveness, grace and enabling power to those who get honest with Him and are willing to repent.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

If cows wouldn't eat it, I won't play on it.

Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.

No, Billy, not every time. He only answers the ones that are said from the heart. You have to be sincere and believe in Him.

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character to another.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Never trust a man who doesn't drink.

The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.

The heart is deceitful above all things, / And it is incurable; / Who can know it?" (17:9).