Quotes About Honesty

I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing.

The important thing is that we recognize our President's leadership, that he is not saying: I am going to walk away from this. He is saying: I am going to do the right thing.

Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything, I try to do the right thing, I think about doing the right thing.

If I lose the ball, I lose it trying to do the right thing. That's the way it is.

I talk every day about doing the right thing.

I believe that the right thing for us to do, as much as we can and without confusing people, is to talk about how we're doing, the things that are going well but also the things that aren't going well.

Your personal integrity, once established and earned, people don't have to think about it. They know. They know you. They know you'll do the right thing every time.

It is about the American people. When something is not ready, it is not working, it is not right, then we owe it to them to do the right thing and say, 'Let's hold.'

I'm a law-and-order girl: I like people who do the right thing.

I'm a firm believer if you do the right thing, the American people will notice.

My father always told me to be myself and say what you think is the right thing; sometimes you pay the consequences, but it means tomorrow will be a happy day for you.

You want to try to always do the right thing and show kids the right way to live.

The secret of success is sincerity.

Theater audiences don't pull punches. They'll let you know when they're feeling ripped off.

As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am.

I always describe race as the final taboo in American theatre. There's a real reluctance to have that conversation in an open, honest way on the stage.

At the end of the day, you're trying to - be it on theatre or on the camera - tell the truth and be honest in the moment.

The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.

Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.

To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

The theme of the Labor Department's centennial is 'Then, Now, Next.' So in honoring Esther Peterson, we look not just to the past but to the future, acknowledging with honesty and a sense of purpose the lingering challenges we still face and the distance we've yet to travel before equality is truly a reality in the lives of all women.

Old Hopi saying—When you lose your temper, you lose a friend. When you lie, you lose yourself.