Quotes About Honesty

You've got to show your soul otherwise you're just a piece of equipment.

I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.

I am not a pious character who never makes mistakes.

I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new.

I was always taught if you do something, face the piper. Try to make it right.

An honest cop still can't find a place to go and complain without fear of recrimination. The blue wall will always be there because the system supports it.

I've said some things that are a little bit off the wall, but I don't run away and hide from them.

We have to start processing what we're really made of in America. American character is not dead. American integrity and honesty are not dead. When we're backed up against the wall against the largest corporations in the history of corporations, it's there.

Well, of course, every actor's limited, and I am the first one to admit it, in all honesty, when I think that I've hit the wall a bit. I'm not ashamed at all, I think it's a process that you have to go through. That's how you learn.

Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'

There are a lot of ethical firms on Wall Street.

I stumbled onto the best profession to heal my childhood: the only one that lets you release and express whatever is ugly and messy and beautiful about your life. We're in the business of creating human beings. The more we spew, and the more honestly we do it, the better. Try that on Wall Street.

As far as I am concerned, the whiners of Wall Street and the political pundits, power players, and the swarms of sycophantic, sound-bite-spewing sewage rats that surround them can stuff it. They are the wrong stuff, and their self-glorification is an obscenity. No matter what they say of themselves, they are not that important.

When you work at 'The Wall Street Journal,' the coins of the realm are truth and trust - the latter flowing exclusively from the former.

On Wall Street, the industry in which I grew up, a culture in which 'my word is my bond' shifted over the past few decades toward one where the big print can say 'Free' while the small print gives the real costs.

In a world where distrust of Wall Street has never been higher, we're holding ourselves to a different standard. We also know that if we don't stay really genuine to that, it's very easy for this to sound incredibly disingenuous.

I don't want to be a thief of my own wallet.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

I don't live in a prism, and I'm not afraid of anything. I haven't built any walls around myself.

I think I've been incredibly raw my whole career. A lot of people spend a lot of time trying to look cool and spend time being guarded and putting up walls. I just never had the time. It seems more honest to say, 'Hey, this is who I am.'

The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life.

Brave doesn't spread hate or bully the vulnerable. Brave doesn't put greed and self-interest over millions of lives. Brave doesn't cower behind lies and walls. Brave doesn't pit people against one another. That's what fear does.

People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don't think much of the rest of the newspaper.