Quotes About Honesty

It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that have not wit enough to be honest.

Who has deceived thee as often as thyself?

Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

For 6£ a year you may have use of 100£, if you are a man of known prudence and honesty. He that spends a groat a-day idly, spends idly above 6£ a year, which is the price of using 100£.

Tôi không nói x?u ai mà ch? nói nh?ng ?i?u t?t ??p tôi ???c bi?t v? h?.

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

Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native luster about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame that cannot be painted.

grew convinc'd that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life; and I form'd written resolutions, which still remain in my journal book, to practice them ever while I lived.

The same man cannot be both friend and flatterer.

First, let honesty and industry be thy constant companions; and, Secondly, spend one penny less than thy clear gains.

123. To confess a Fault, that is none, out of Fear, is indeed mean: But not to be afraid of standing in one, is Brutish.

through the goodness of the Lord, truth, I believed, gained some ground, and it was a strengthening opportunity to the honest-hearted.

I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

no qualities were so likely to make a poor man's fortune as those of probity and integrity.

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

Truth is brighter than light.

Do not do that which you would not have known.

He that pays for work before it's done has but a pennyworth for two pence.

Politicians are bound to indicate what they would hope to do if they are elected to parliament, and that is a perfectly legitimate means of securing support--but they are less ready to admit that it may be impossible to fulfil their commitments once elected.

Yes books are valuable. But not reading of books will take the place of a daily, candid, honest examination of what one has recently done, and what one is about to do -- of a steady looking at one's self in the face (disconcerting though the sight may be).

I don't like to hold back, because that's how you hurt yourself.

Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are examples there for all time to keep us honest and keep us reaching they'll never be eclipsed.