Quotes About Honesty

A baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it. Every star gets humbled. Every mediocre player has a great moment.

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.

In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.

I know what I did and how I accomplished it. I am proud of it and know that it was done with integrity.

In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.

To answer that question honestly, I'd have to lie to you.

I ain't gonna be no escape-goat!

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

Don't overstate your likely achievements; when in doubt, understate them.

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

To cry out that the emperor had no clothes on was at least to pick on one man only to the amusement of everyone else; to declare that almost everyone is dressed in rags is much less likely to be popular.

School taught me only to read and write. And that sliver of learning set me on the surest road to starving to death in honesty and ignorance. You were the first to open my eyes to widespread corruption. To have understood that the only forces that drive humanity are thieving and swindling - that's real intelligence. And you didn't even go to school.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.

four-fifths of the words attributed to me are things I never said, and would not agree with. If your words cannot stand on their own, adding my name won't make them less flimsy

The search for truth and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man—though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.

A forced faithfulness is a bitter fruit for all concerned.

É difficile sapere cosa sia la verità, ma a volte è molto facile riconoscere una falsità

Be yourself for a while, even it's hurt.

She must, above all things, be just, not truckling to the strong and warring on or plundering the weak; she must act on the square with all nations, and the feeblest tribes; always keeping her faith, honest in her legislation, upright in all her dealings. Whenever such a Republic exists, it will be immortal: for rashness, injustice, intemperance and luxury in prosperity, and despair and disorder in adversity, are the causes of the decay and dilapidation of nations.