Quotes About Honesty

While authenticity is the "real you," vulnerability is that "you" naked—that is, who you are without artifice.

A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity

Off thaim I thynk this buk to ma: Now God gyff grace that I may swa Tret it, and bryng it till endyng, That I say nocht bot suthfast thing!

I've been thinking," he said. "Which is not an easy thing for a teacher to admit to.

Most people, she said, can't stand the truth. It's too bad but there it is, most people can't stand it.

You put something down and you don't know immediately what it is. It has always been like that. ...All you have to know is whether you're lying or whether you're telling the truth, you can't afford to make a mistake about that distinction any longer.

Often we judge ourselves by our intentions and everyone else by their actions. It is possible to intend one thing while communicating something totally different. Sometimes our true motives are cleverly hidden even from us.

If you believe in the Gospel what you like, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.

Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you, Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.

Be true to your word and your work and your friend...

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

To truly be committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality.

Bad behavior is seen as something to be noticed, reported on, and analyzed, whereas people who do not lie and cheat are taken for granted.

an individual's moral obligation in the situation is to 'call it as he sees it' without consideration of what others say.

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

Now, I was, as they said, become godly; now I was become a right honest man. But, oh! when I understood that these were their words and opinions of me, it pleased me mighty well. For though, as yet, I was nothing but a poor painted Hypocrite, yet I loved to be talked of as one that was truly godly. I was proud of my Godliness, and, indeed, I did all I did, ether to be seen of, or to be well spoken of, by Man.

For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.

Sincerity is the first casualty of capitalism. We

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

It is character, not numbers, that make the world go 'round.

When that which professes to be the Word of God is acknowledged to be so, no person, unless devoid of common sense and the feelings of a man, will have the desperate hardihood to refuse credit to the speaker.

there is no real shortcut to gaining someone's trust,

One of history's most useful tasks is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly and painfully, past generations pursued aims that now seem to us wrong or disgraceful.

We don't take the time to be vulnerable with each other