Quotes About Honesty

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none.

Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Else if you would be a man speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

The life of truth is cold.

Who you are is speaking so loudly that I can't hear what you're saying

Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay

I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier.

Do not say things. Who you are thunders over you all the while so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.

I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practical man relies on the language of the first.

Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well - he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.

Quotation confesses inferiority.

It is better to be the thorn in the side of your friend than his echo

If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own. I do this not selfishly, but humbly and truly. It is alike your interest, and mine, and all men's, however long we have dwelt in lies, to live in truth.