Honesty Quotes

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a s...

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, nat...

If all the world spoke, acted, or kept silence with intent to deceive, --if dearest interests were a...

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it,

Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies...

The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to t...

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would...

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. O...

I’m a liar, but an honest one. People reproach me for not always telling the same story in the same ...

Keep a clear eye toward life's end. Do not forget your purpose and destiny as God's creature. What y...

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly...

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I d...

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

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to...

True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitu...

He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think.

If there is no struggle there is no progress.

Don't ever, ever try to lie to the internet - because they will catch you.

HE who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is...

When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellect...

You are an honest and honorable man, Lord Eddard. Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them ...

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the be...

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviab...

They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passi...

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

In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of co...

It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true i...

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and great...

If a man says to you, "This is the truth," and you believe him, and you discover what he says is not...

As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most import...

Honesty is to truth as prow is to stern. Honesty appears first and truth appears last. The interval ...

There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.

All the same, writing honestly is very difficult. The more I try to be honest, the farther my words ...

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is ...

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

People are free to find out the best and the worst of me!

Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing the pleasant and reasona...

Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing to pleasant and reasonab...

How do you have to live, I wondered, to be in harmony with what you honestly think?

Today the grass listens when I speak of love. It seems to me that this word isn't honest even with i...

In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tai...

Months later, when I rarely saw the Angels, I still had the legacy of the big machine -- four hundre...

So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or...

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testi...

...[T]o be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abid...

It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I hav...

There's probably no one so easily bribed, but he lacks even the fundamental honesty of honorable cor...

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You...

When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baude...

It has always been my contention that an individual who can be relied upon to be himself and to be h...

The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented.

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, were being ashamed of wh...

And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We kee...

I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert...

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I care...

That's the first rule of survival in enemy waters: volunteer nothing.

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that s...

But the inexplicability of the General's conduct dwelt much on her thoughts. That he was very partic...

Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature spea...

I love your body 'cause I've lost my mind If you want someone to talk to, you're wasting your time I...

I am not worried about pleasing clever minds or fashionable people. In every period there will be me...

A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty

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

I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm goin...

I had the good fortune and opportunity to come home and to tell the truth; many soldiers, like Pat T...

Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting yo...

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - an...

After all, no relationship could function or survive under the burden of total honesty.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends it’ll get you the right ones

The honester the man the worse luck.

Look here,” said Will. “When a man comes to me for advice about an idea, I know he doesn’twant advic...

Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follo...

All a man can betray is his conscience.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful t...

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus go...

The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.

I tried to manipulate and control people and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven but I wo...

All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that h...

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to u...

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

Then he had looked on his spirit as his I; now, it was his healthy strong animal I that he looked up...

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you’ll be so close as to be living inside each other’s ski...

Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not "we love each other", i...

Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not "we love each other", i...

Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not "we love each other", i...

Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not "we love each other", i...

This love of money is the curse of American, and for the sake of it men will sell honor and honesty,...

Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when ...

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.