Quotes About Honesty

The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people.

I'd like to say this was our worst game. Unfortunately, I can't.

The best thing about me is that I am generally very honest - not hurtfully honest, but honest. The worst thing about me is that everybody can make me feel guilty. I feel responsible about things that don't even concern me.

The worst thing you can do is try to manipulate or control perceptions. It's impossible, and when you are found out the result is disastrous. Better to be transparent and play well with others so that when bad things happen you have a reservoir of good will to bank on.

The worst thing you can do in a leadership position is be something you're not.

I'm not a gossip. The worst thing anyone can say to me is, 'Ooh, I've got some gossip.' I'm like, 'Oh, shut up.'

The worst thing you could do is scare a kid or trick them. Never, ever, ever do that.

I committed pretty much the worst thing you can do, which is defraud the readers.

I don't try to be likeable. The worst thing people do is present versions of themselves to the world that aren't real.

I've been wearing white since my college days. I like color, but if I wear colored clothes now, it would feel like I'm being false. And that's the worst thing I could be.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping.

Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.

The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result?

Do what in your heart you know is right. It is easy to get caught up in your ambitions, but no job is worth not being true to yourself.

Liquidity is a good proxy for relative net worth. You can't lie about cash, stocks, and bond values.

When you come to 'Shark Tank,' the only person you should listen to is me, because you know you're getting the truth. I'll decide if it's worth it, and after I'm finished, the rest of the people can look into it.

Unfortunately, as much as I am gullible, I also hate lying. I tend to tell the truth a lot... lying just isn't worth it. But I think I'm guilty of telling people that I'm 5 minutes away when really I'm about 45 or an hour away.

I had my bad-boy moment in my teens. I'll never do that again. It wasn't pleasant, and I learned my lesson. It was sexy and mysterious, and it's like, 'Look how cool they are,' but it's just not worth it. He was lying to me and accusing me of cheating - but then I realized he was the one cheating.

I will not sell anything ever again that I do not believe in. I'm not willing to do a job for pure financial gain. I've done that, and it wasn't worth it.

I'm not afraid to take questions about where I come from, where I've traveled, or how I've conducted business, because being honest about who I am is worth it.

Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.

There's no drugs, no Tom in a dress, no psychiatrists.

Tom and I have never claimed to be perfect, whatever that means in a relationship. We're not trying to be anyone's example. We're living our lives and building our family and doing what we love.