Quotes About Honesty

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them

The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.

The more you talk to yourself, the more apt you are to lie.

I may not be perfect but I've always been true I may not be worthy in your eyes

And you fall, and you crawl, and you break, what you get, and you turn it into honesty and promise you're never going to find you're faking, no no no.

Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family.

Reality is not easy, but all this make-believe doesn't make it easier.

I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.

By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.

She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

An honest person can be sold or purchased but never honesty

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

Do not ask questions! The only real defense civilized man has against anybody who bothers him is to lie. There would be no lies if there were no questions.

La suya era una de las familias más pobres del pueblo, una de las más apreciadas por su honestidad y su modestia y además porque siempre son más queridas las familias pobres que las ricas.

He may realize that the world is a jungle. But if he has seen that it could be better for anyone if the simple principles of decency and kindliness were generally applied, then he must in honesty try to practice these consistently and to live, personally, as if they were general. In other words, he must follow the light he has seen.

He locked gazes with her. "I have to wonder why you aren't being straight with me. I hate getting myself killed without knowing why.

straightforward and selfish

Work honestly, meditate daily, meet people without fear, and play.

Seek the good of other men, but be not in bondage to their faces or fancies; for that is but facility, or softness; which taketh an honest mind prisoner.