Quotes About Honesty

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

The spirit of truth will do more to bring persons to light and knowledge, than flowery words.

I'm not trying to be something that I'm not. I'm just trying to be myself and talk about what I know, and admit what I don't know.

A bet is a tax on bullshit; and it is a just tax, tribute paid by the bullshitters to those with genuine knowledge.

Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty.

I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.

Knowledge is truthful only if it's based in morality.

Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.

There's no weakness as great as false strength.

The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.

It has always been my contention that an individual who can be relied upon to be himself and to be honest unto himself can be relied upon in every other way.

Teach honesty by all means - you do know what it is, don't you?

Knowledge cannot be maintained without character.

A silent tongue does not betray its owner

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

Future leaders will be less concerned with saying what they will deliver and more concerned with delivering what they have said they would.

Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

Credibility is a leader's currency. With it, he or she is solvent; without it, he or she is bankrupt.

Creativity is the depth of the honesty you express towards your possibility.

Trust is the essence of Leadership.