Quotes About Honesty

It could not buy that of Ignatius, she interrupted with a look of triumph, for amidst so much deceit she felt a double gratitude that one man had been found true.

But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.

In later years, when an acquaintance inquired what had pained him most in the course of his eventful life, Grant responded readily, To be deceived by a friend. p809

Was Lamont's reluctance simple candor—or splendid calculation?

businessmen respected them for their honest dealings.

Tell the truth, because sooner or later the public will find out anyway. And if the public doesn't like what you are doing, change your policies and bring them into line with what people want.

Mr. Rockefeller, you are no different from any other citizen before the law, and if I were you, I would appear.

Never under any circumstances do an action which could be called in question if known to the world.

Rainsford also credited Pierpont with intense loyalty and forthright honesty:

If every kid who said he was going to the library, when he was really off doing something else, actually went to the library, they'd have to send out for more books.

A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions tell me that's true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not.

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, because your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are."1

We think it's okay to talk to others about the problem we're having with so-and-so, but we never go straight to the source. We're guilty of slander or gossip. Even if what we say is true, it's still gossip.

Just remember that the most important thing is to be truthful to yourself. If you hang on to that, you won't go far wrong.

I can't deal with hidden undertows or unspoken feelings.

Lev,' said Ruby, 'when I was younger, I always told people the things I thought they wanted to hear. But I don't do that anymore. It's a cruel thing to do. So I can't say now that you will be free of it ( grief) and move on, because I just don't know the answer.

He couldn't deceive himself. He always looked things in the eye and never pretended that what he saw was not really happening.

She said surprisingly, in a voice as thin as a flute: Are you a good man? I like to think so, but her candor stopped me. No, I said, I'm not. I keep trying, when I remember to, but it keeps getting tougher every year. Like trying to chin yourself with one hand. You can practice off and on all your life, and never make it.

Sin always involves us in being unreal, pretending, duplicity, window dressing, excusing ourselves and blaming others--and we can do all that as much by our silence as by saying or doing something. This

The only basis for real fellowship with God and man is to live out in the open with both. But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another. To

While we are in that condition of darkness, we cannot have true fellowship with our brother either--for we are not real with him, and no one can have fellowship with an unreal person.

Li não sei onde que, numa separação, aquele que não ama e' o que diz as coisas carinhosas.

Truthfulness, uprightness, and honesty are in this connection creative forces, while mendacity, deceitfulness, and dishonesty are destructive forces.

If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.