Quotes on Honesty

If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse.

No honest man will argue on every side

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

In short, there are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on honesty, not on falsehood; on justice, not on injustice; on public tranquility, not on violence; on freedom, not on enslavement.

I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.

He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge, or gives to human life higher elevation or greater fullness - he is, in the larger meaning of the words, a " producer," a " working man," a " laborer," and is honestly earning honest wages.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures the reader, and at every point, offers the comfort of secure moral frameworks and recognizable characters.

In all honesty, once you become a professional, number one, you're no longer a fan. I don't root for the Dodgers, really. I just try to do the game as best I can. And the winning and the losing will take care of itself.

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

I try to stick with things that I can sing with honesty.

What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countries. What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or Europeans value. Westerners value the freedoms and liberties of the individual. As an Asian of Chinese cultural backround, my values are for a government which is honest, effective and efficient.

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

All beings are by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas.