Quotes About Honesty

To the cowboy, true integrity means listening to that inner voice that tells you the difference between right and wrong, so that your actions line up with your beliefs. And isn't that as good a definition of integrity as you can find?

Some people confess in the flesh, others on paper.

She made no point of concealing the truth, for the truth was all she could bear now.

Coughlin came to believe that the Department of Veterans Affairs had an inherent conflict of interest that hobbled its ability to conduct honest research. The VA was charged not only with conducting research on medical conditions afflicting veterans but also with paying the benefits to veterans who suffered from those conditions. Whenever VA researchers discovered a new health problem, the VA had to pay out more money. The VA thus had an incentive not to discover new illnesses among veterans.

Never trust those who would be your shield. They feed on your ignorance and darkness. It is best to look at things directly and be unafraid.

The truth is often one's best shield.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

No, never say nothin' without you're compelled tu,An' then don't say nothin' thet you can be held tu.

This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

Do you know what it is to be really intimate, to feel safe with someone who will never betray you, will never force you to act unlike yourself? That was what we had.

I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar

I know you think you know this guy, but I'm telling you now. Don't mess with him. If you're anything other than straight with Jensen, this isn't going to work.

I am not unused to being confronted with my ow lies, but those of others never fail to throw me for a loop.

It seemed the best thing was just to come right out and say it. You know, I said, I'm really not attracted to you. I mean, not that- Isn't that interesting, he said coolly. I'm really not attracted to you, either. But- You were there.

Dear me, you are being truthful today," he said, with remarkable perspicuity. "Life has got awfully dramatic all of a sudden, hasn't it? Just like a fiction.…

Cloke Rayburn, a school friend of Corcoran's and one of those who first notified police, said that Corcoran 'is a real straight guy - definitely not mixed up in drugs or anything like that.

Walk your talk.

His success in dealing with the strong egos of the men in his cabinet suggests that in the hands of a truly great politician the qualities we generally associate with decency and morality—kindness, sensitivity, compassion, honesty, and empathy—can also be impressive political resources.

Moreover, he objected, "I have never done an official act with a view to promote my own personal aggrandizement, and I don't like to begin now.

faith never foundered that if the people "were taken into the confidence of their government and received a full and truthful statement of what was happening, they would generally choose the right course.

I have ever preferred that a man should tell me face to face that he will or will not do a thing, than to promise to do it and then to not do it.

I have always had a horror of words that are not translated into deeds," Roosevelt frequently charged.