Honesty Quotes

When rogues fall out honest men get into their own.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

Ay sir to be honest as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles the character of an "Honest Man."

George Washington

To be honest one must be inconsistent.

H.G.Wells

It's better to be quotable than to be honest.

Tom Stoppard

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Billy Graham

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

Comtesse Diane

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

Thomas Fuller

The honester the man the worse luck.

John Ray

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

Dean William R. Inge

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have the man looked honest enough.

Mark Twain

Honesty's praised then left to freeze.

Juvenal

Wealth makes everything easy - honesty most of all.

Comtesse Diane

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

Stephen Vincent Benét

Every man has his fault and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

One must not cheat anybody not even the world of one's triumph.

Franz Kafka

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

Richard J. Needham

Anger cannot be dishonest.

George R. Bach

I'm frank brutally frank. And even when I'm not frank I look frank.

Lord Thomson

The young man turned to him with a disarming candour which instantly put him on his guard.

Saki

A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time but they will be remembered and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion.

Samuel Johnson

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Sigmund Freud

Honesty is the best policy.

Miguel de Cervantes

What comes from the heart goes to the heart.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The entire perks that I need are to let me do my job with full honesty to my conscience.

Amit Abraham

People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.

Aubrey Beardsley

I prefer to surround myself with people who reveal their imperfection, rather than people who choose to fake perfection.

Charles F. Glassman

Satire today has become a flat ‘tyre'.

Amit Abraham

You don't know your presence of tomorrow, so why to WASTE today?!!!

Jaiminsinh Parmar

An ethical idealist, a person whom embraces the honorable philosophy of ethical idealism, performs acts that are honest, pure, and righteous regardless of their fearfulness.

Kilroy J. Oldster

I have found over the years of working with people, even those who have had very deep and profound awakenings, that most people have a fear of being truthful, of really being honest-- not only with others, but with themselves as well. Of course, the core of this fear is that most people know intuitively that if they were actually truthful and totally sincere and honest, they would no longer be able to control anybody.

Adyashanti

Every couple of months or so, some boundary breaking article comes out in a nationally published magazine. The article makes a big thesis statement about relationships. Like say how, women don’t need men anymore, or how if you’re a woman over thirty-five, you should just settle with whatever guy is half-way nice to you, or how monogamy is not feasible, or plausible, or enjoyable, for any human. And we should all be swingers, or a study is released that say’s, you don’t have to love your kids anymore or something. They’re the kind of articles that are e-mailed everywhere and I get them forwarded to me about eight times. I will read one of these articles and immediately afterward I’m so swept up in it, I can’t help but think Yes, Yes, that is one-hundred percent right. Finally! Someone has confirmed that little voice in the back of my mind that has always not loved my kids, or I’m so happy I’m that much closer to my swinging lifestyle I’ve always secretly been craving. I’m normal and now it’s a national discussion and others agree and I can feel normal now. But then, a week later I’m thinking, I hate this. I feel awful. This wretched little magazine article has helped convinced more open minded liberal arts graduates that, the nuclear family doesn’t exist without some hideous twist, like the dad is allowed to go to an S & M dungeon once a week or something. It makes me cry because it means that fewer and fewer people are believing it’s cool to want what I want, which is to be married and have kids and love each other in a monogamous, long-lasting relationship.

Mindy Kaling

There are few people who are mature enough to uphold moral and ethical values; who have a remarkable character; who are honest and sincere; who cultivate and harbor loyalty, devotion and dedication by rendering a striking admiration.

Sandeep N Tripathi

I'd rather someone be honest and tell me something that I didn't want to hear, rather than dishonest and tell me something I want to hear.

Charles F. Glassman

The less you look to others,the more you find in yourself.What have you found in yourself.

Ron W. Rathbun

The Man of Power is one who presides—By persuasion. He uses no demeaning words or behavior, does not manipulate others, appeals to the best in everyone, and respects the dignity andagency of all humankind—men, women, boys, and girls.By long-suffering. He waits when necessary and listens to the humblest or youngest person. He is tolerant of the ideas of others and avoids quick judgments and anger. By gentleness. He uses a smile more often than a frown. He is not gruff or loud or frightening; he does not discipline in anger.By meekness. He is not puffed up, does not dominate conversations, and is willing to conform his will to the will of God.By love unfeigned. He does not pretend. He is sincere, giving honest love without reservation even when others are unlovable.By kindness. He practices courtesy and thoughtfulness in little things as well as in the more obvious things. By pure knowledge. He avoids half-truths and seeks to be empathetic. Without hypocrisy. He practices the principles he teaches. He knows he is not always right and is willing to admit his mistakes and say ‘I’m sorry.'Without guile. He is not sly or crafty in his dealings with others, but is honest and authentic when describing his feelings.

H. Burke Peterson

True honesty is what you are willing to admit to yourself without judgement!

Pollyanna Darling

A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person.

Sandra Chami Kassis

In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.

Honoré de Balzac

We humans are prone to err, and to err systematically, outrageously, and with utter confidence. We are also prone to hold our mistaken notions dear, protecting and nourishing them like our own children. We defend them at great cost. We surround ourselves with safe people, people who will appreciate our cherished views. We avoid those who suggest that our exalted ideas, our little emperors, have no clothes.

Valerie Tarico

You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.

Anne Holm

I get what you're saying, but my hanging with the ladies is mostly for publicity when I'm on tour. I don't sleep with that many girls. Well, not all of them. Okay, I'm trying to behave myself. It's not easy being famous!

Michelle Sutton

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

Akira Kurosawa

He smiles an honest smile for the first time, and the difference is hard to describe but easy to recognize.

Brenna Yovanoff

Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun...and you'll have no regrets.

Byrd Baggett

You can’t be another person’s honesty, child, but you can be your own.

Jeanette Winterson

Why would you ever premedicate honesty? To hesitate is to overthink how you feel. A blurted out answer is usually the most genuine.

Shannon L. Alder

What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good intentions what paves the road to hell: it's self-justifyin's.

David Mitchell

The best of all lost arts is honesty

Mark Twain

I lay my head on his chest and listen to his heart beating, solid and sure.....he reads me so well. He's known about my emotional empathy since we were children. Nothing disturbs him...Few can lie to me... I don't know the truth, only that there is a lie. It takes a scrupulously honest man to love me. That's my Sean. We learned to trust each other completely before we were old enough to have learned suspicion.

Karen Marie Moning

Teach honesty by all means - you do know what it is, don't you?

Idries Shah

You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb.

Dean Koontz

I lie without a mask, thus I am an honest man.

Lionel Suggs

Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.

Orrin Woodward

A man who will steal for me will steal from me." Theodore Roosevelt, dismissing on the spot one of his best cowhands who was about to claim for his boss an unmarked animal.

David McCullough

Months later, when I rarely saw the Angels, I still had the legacy of the big machine -- four hundred pounds of chrome and deep red noise to take out on the Coast Highway and cut loose at three in the morning, when all the cops were lurking over on 101. My first crash had wrecked the bike completely and it took several months to have it rebuilt. After that I decided to ride it differently: I would stop pushing my luck on curves, always wear a helmet and try to keep within range of the nearest speed limit ... my insurance had already been canceled and my driver's license was hanging by a thread.So it was always at night, like a werewolf, that I would take the thing out for an honest run down the coast. I would start in Golden Gate Park, thinking only to run a few long curves to clear my head ... but in a matter of minutes I'd be out at the beach with the sound of the engine in my ears, the surf booming up on the sea wall and a fine empty road stretching all the way down to Santa Cruz ... not even a gas station in the whole seventy miles; the only public light along the way is an all-night diner down around Rockaway Beach.There was no helmet on those nights, no speed limit, and no cooling it down on the curves. The momentary freedom of the park was like the one unlucky drink that shoves a wavering alcoholic off the wagon. I would come out of the park near the soccer field and pause for a moment at the stop sign, wondering if I knew anyone parked out there on the midnight humping strip.

Hunter S. Thompson

I suppose if we gain anything from this unsought experience it will be an appreciation for honesty- frankness on the part of our politicians, our friends, our loves, ourselves. No more liars in public places. (And the bed and the bar are, in their way, as public as the floor of Congress.)

Tim O'Brien

A liar only uses the truth when they want their lies to sound truthful.

Al David

It was the first honest emotional connection I'd had in a while. So I immediately panicked and had to leave.

Candace Bushnell

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