Quotes About Honesty

Use no hurtful deceit think innocently and justly and if you speak, speak accordingly.

What you seem to be, be really.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.

What you would seem to be, be really.

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

Half a truth is often a great lie

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words: industry and frugality. Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. He that gets all he can honestly, and saves all he can, will certainly become rich.

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war...This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Tis hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

nothing was useful which was not honest.

Keep Conscience clear, then never fear.

Nothing so likely to make a man's fortune as virtue.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

I am persuaded however that he [John Adams] means well for his Country, is always an honest Man, often a Wise One, but sometimes and in some things, absolutely out of his Senses.

several of us were corrected by our fathers; and though I pleaded the usefulness of the work, mine convinced me that nothing was useful which was not honest.

Our debts and our sins are always greater than we think for.

convinc'd that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life;

though I pleaded the usefulness of the work, mine convinced me that nothing was useful which was not honest.