Quotes About Honesty

Many a man proclaims his own loyalty, but who can find a trustworthy man? Proverbs 20:6

Help me understand that sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception. Truth will never fail to return enormous dividends.

Have you ever physically turned from a sin and ceased the activity, yet continued to cherish it to some degree in your heart?

Let them present their witnesses to vindicate themselves, so that people may hear and say, "It is true." Isaiah 43:9

The one who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy. Proverbs 28:13

We have renounced shameful secret things, not walking in deceit or distorting God's message. 2 Corinthians 4:2

Delusion never delivers.

I am the LORD, and there is no other… . I, the LORD, speak truthfully; I say what is right. Isaiah 45:18–19

Uncommon friends can speak their minds without fear. Imagine the tone David probably used with Jonathan when he asked, "What have I done? What is my crime? How have I wronged your father, that he is trying to take my life?" (v. 1).

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.

You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.

That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.

By being courageous enough to state the difficult truth, the most important reputation that you will preserve is your own.

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.

I'm not trying to acquire a reputation as serious documentary maker for its own sake.

I would be lying if I said Starz doesn't have a reputation.

In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.

It's slanderous to report things I didn't say, to degrade my reputation, it's sickening to me.

I don't think you need to run down someone's reputation in order to run for the office of president.

Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.

I have a reputation for being a straight-talker.

I had made my reputation on integrity.