Quotes About Honesty

In life, what more can you ask for than to be real?

If there is one thing I've learned in my short life, it's this: Never repress anything.

Integrity means that if our private life were suddenly exposed, we'd have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Integrity means that our outward life is consistent with our inner convictions.

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.

Half the truth is often a great lie.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

My life has been an open book, for better or for worse.

Live your life in your own unique way and be true to yourself

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.

The sincerity with which you do things, that's what shapes your life.

Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.

The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.

If lips and life do not agree, the testimony will not amount to much.

Nothing speaks louder or more powerfully than a life of integrity

I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.

My life's a mess. I'm not afraid to admit it.

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

The whole of my life, what they wanted was honesty. They were not concerned with cultured football, but with triers who gave one hundred percent.

Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.