Quotes About Honesty

If we lived each day as our last, I bet we'd all be a lot more honest with people, because we wouldn't have to care what people think anymore.

If you have to say you're kidding, it might not be a great joke.

I stand for honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated, and helping those in need. To me those are traditional values." -- Ellen Degeneres

Here's a professional tip: If you have to say you're kidding, it might not be a great joke.

Untruth yields to truth" A maxim from "Audacht Morainn," an ancient Irish wisdom text.

This is not an act

The greatest want of the world is the want of men-men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

As we deal with our fellow men in petty dishonesty or in more daring fraud, so will we deal with God.

They [the Hardscrabbles]never enjoyed it when adults playfully lied to them. The adults always think they're being amusing and imaginative, just like children. But kids never lie playfully. They lie as if their lives depended on it.

If enough dishonest merchants water their milk, more and more customers will forget what normal milk tastes like and buy only the cheaper - watered down - variety.

But as we are looking toward our future, I'm not sure it matters what we want to be but rather who we want to be. Someone honest or deceitful? Someone kind or cruel? Someone loyal or unfaithful? In any profession we can elect to be any of those things. I think this assignment is not only about what we choose to do but about who we choose to be. I choose to always be loyal to myself.

But you can only lie about who you are for so long without going crazy.

It's a lie, you know, to pretend that nothing is important to you. It's hiding. Believe me, I know because I hid for a long time. But now I won't do it anymore. The truth is bioluminescent. I don't lie, and I don't waste time on people who do.

when there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.

If it pains you to discover that a Nice Man can be a crumbum, Tom, it's life you've got to object to, not Percy in particular.

the quest for the Holy Grail itself is not more beset with difficulties than the merest seeking after one true, unvarnished word.

There was too much talk and most of it unnecessary and most of it lying. Alone on the desert he felt he could reach to something, something he could never get to anywhere else, something that belonged to the beginning and made everything else that happened in between of no importance.

For me, trust is the first casualty of secrecy… integrity is probably the next.

Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.

In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your right. Mine is to stand by the act, and pay the price. You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple.

Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.

A little honest swearin" wipeth away anger and bringeth peace to the soul.