Quotes About Character

Honesty defines self respect.

You can't do a good deal with a bad guy. The dishonesty tax is too high and is not something you will factor into your side of the equation.

The most important decision we make is whether to be honestly fake or fake honesty.

Wagging tongues from prejudiced, sophisticated facade of show-off people can never blemish any honest, genuine, golden heart.

Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil the devil was a liar from the beginning.

Honesty is the great essential. It exalts the individual citizenship, and, without honesty, no man deserves the confidence of the people in private pursuit or in public office.

Of all feats of skill the most difficult is that of being honest.

He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing.

There is one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says 'yes' you know he is crooked.

Honesty must sometimes be taken in small measure, like a bitter medicine.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do.

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

Honor is better than honors.

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Live with honor and follow your conscience.

The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.