Quotes About Honesty

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.

It isn't easy to be frank with yourself. But, if you wish to find your particular success in life, it is the most rewarding reaction of them all.

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

What's the secret to success? It's no secret. You need a winning attitude, honesty and integrity, and a burning desire to succeed.

Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.

Doing the right thing doesn't always bring success. But compromising ethics almost always leads to failure.

Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly.

Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.

The keys to success, in business and in life, are truthfulness, the ability to take and give, honest and well-intended feedback, strength of character and conviction in one's principles

Make a Fair Product for a Fair Price, then Tell the World.

Success can corrupt; usefulness can only exalt.

Anyone who seeks success or greatness should first forget about both and seek only the truth. The rest will follow.

Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.

Success for some people, depends on becoming well-known, for others it depends on never being found out.

I say it the way it is. I don't play around. That has been my success, in my opinion, for Mississauga.

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses.

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

Integrity is crucial for business success - once you can fake that, you've got it made.

I think if you come straight on honest as much as you can, eventually that turns into success. Maybe not as quick as you'd like.

Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.