Quotes About Honesty

Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far.

Pat Boone is an icon in this country. He's not a guy who's going to pull the wool over people's eyes. He's going to tell them the truth.

I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.

For all the criticism of me, there's one thing you won't hear anybody say, and that's that I've pulled the wool over anyone's eyes.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

All you have in business is your reputation - so it's very important that you keep your word.

Trust is a big word for me. Loyalty and trust, for me, are everything. It's the core of what I'm about and what the people around me hopefully are about. It's a certain thing that gives you a sense of security. It's the biggest factor in everything I do.

In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

My word is gold, And I make sure everyone gets paid.

'Credit' is another word for trustworthiness.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.

To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for me today is a magic word in South America. Power comes from transparency and a track record of execution.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

Promise keeping is a powerful means of grace in a time when people hardly depend on each other to remember and live by their word.

If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.

Dishonesty in trailers is more than a moral issue, it's a practical one. If you don't deliver in the film what you offered in the trailer, you'll get bad word-of-mouth.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

I am a simple man who comes from a village, and villagers like us speak our mind. Now, in the process, if unknowingly my words came across as disrespectful or insulting, then I am deeply sorry. I don't want to hurt anyone.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.