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Quotes About Honesty

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.
~ Thomas Huxley
Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.
~ Dalai Lama
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Honesty that can be trusted and respected is a very fragrant flower in the life of a Christian.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
I enjoy people who aren't afraid to say what they mean. It makes life so much easier!
~ Alex Flinn
I never lied to a person in my life; my kids didn't, either
~ Art Modell
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
~ Baron de Montesquieu
I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
The greatest truths in life are the ones your fellow queens are willing to tell you.
~ RuPaul
To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.
~ Starhawk
A life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth.
~ Stephen Covey
When you have feelings like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life.
~ Steve Jobs
Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking.
~ Timothy Keller
I lived that life for real, so to talk about it was like a joke, you know what I mean?
~ Tone-Loc
I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.
~ Truman Capote
Lies are like garbage that you can't throw away. They clutter your life, foul your air, and make living unbearable.
~ Wes Fesler
Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.
~ Vijay Seshadri
I'll tell you no lies. The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.
~ Dylan Thomas
You're lying to me half the time, and I'm lying to you all the time.
~ E Lockhart
love is of the body; not the body, but of the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!
~ E M Forster
No one is entitled to the truth.
~ E. Howard Hunt
I can't forget things, or ignore them-bad things that happen," I said. "I'm a lay-it-all-out person, a dwell-on-it person, an obsess-about-it person. If I hold things in and try to forget or pretend, I become a madman and have panic attacks. I have to talk.
~ E. Lockhart
If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do it for you.
~ E. Lockhart