Quotes About Honesty

If somebody thinks I have an integrity problem, then the honest thing to do is to tell me what they think it is and let me address it.

I know me, and those close to me know me. But sadly, the outside world thinks I'm some kind of a crook.

I'm not the guy that thinks I'm a perfect singer.

You never know really what anyone thinks about you - that's why all my closest friends are ones I've had since my schooling days when I was 5. And I surround myself with people who I trust and who know me.

I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.

Things happen. That's what makes us human. But just acceptable and accountability and responsibility - I feel like people in this generation lack accountability, and when you can't accept what you've done or you can't accept that, then you can't heal from it.

You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.

I don't take a stance to score political points. That's not what I'm about. That's not why the people hired me. If I do take a stand on something, it's because I've thoroughly researched it.

I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people.

All those men have their price.

I don't like to say things that I wouldn't want to say to someone's face. Those are my morals for life.

'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.

As for reputation, though it be a glorious instrument of advancing our Master's service, yet there is a better than that: a clean heart, a single eye, and a soul full of God. A fair exchange if, by the loss of reputation, we can purchase the lowest degree of purity of heart.

I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized and made a member of the church on Sunday morning, you still had to be 'saved' on Sunday night. I wanted to be saved, but I did not think you should fake it.

It's become my brand in a way, you know, speaking the truth even though it was not politically correct.

Sincerity with innocence, though cute, though it makes good movies, makes for very bad government.

It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?

I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.

As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?

My thought process is I have been lied to so much by people who I thought I could trust that it motivates me to want to be as honest as possible, to project that energy, because that is how I want people to treat me.

Bands have good nights, and they have bad nights. I'm not going to cover up anything or pretend. For me, personally, that's just my thought process.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

None of us have pure thoughts; we all live in glass houses.