Quotes About Honesty

You can't trust even thieves these days.

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

For truthfully, Your Honors, if a man can love his daughter and she love him in return, with honesty and restraint, then what act, what station, can we aspire to . . . that would be more civilized than that?

A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.

In the long run the best proof of a good character is good actions.

Show and prove to the world, to angels and to God, that you are on the side of truth and right, of honesty, purity and integrity, and that you are for God in His kingdom.

Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.

Truth must be spoken however it be taken.

Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.

I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.

No man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.

I never made any friends, even as a kid. Not the kind you can open your heart to." "It's not that hard." "I hope not. Because I'm going to be a different person. I'm going to tell people about the real me. This is the first time I can do it, because it's the first time I've really known myself. And I'm going to love. I'm going to care about people.

I'm going to tell people about the real me. This is the first time I can do it, because it's the first time I've really known myself. And I'm going to love. I'm going to care about people. And it looks like you're it.

I wonder if the truth comes off people like an aura or an odor. You don't have to know them to know them, ya know?

not be friends of

That's not true. I've known some dandy politicians. They care more about appearance than anything.

It is important for these unspeakable things to be spoken of, because they actually happened in this world.

Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don't trust ambiguity.

About the worst thing an honest man can do is make an honest mistake." John Wayne

Are you going to believe what you see or what I tell you?

As one instance of this, be always ready to own any fault you have been in. If you have at any time thought, spoken, or acted wrong, be not backward to acknowledge it. Never dream that this will hurt the cause of God; no, it will further it. Be therefore open and frank when you are taxed with anything; do not seek either to evade or disguise it; but let it appear just as it is, and you will thereby not hinder but adorn the Gospel.

Even the most skillful deceit is wasted on a man's mother.

if people are to accept Christianity, it will not be because of our superior institutions, but because Jesus Christ is seen to contribute to primary values — authentic love, selfless service, ruthless honesty.