Quotes on Honesty

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

My father had a very simple view of life: you don’t get anything for nothing. Everything has to be earned, through work, persistence and honesty. My father also had a deep charm, the gift of winning our trust. He was the kind of man with whom many people dream of spending an evening.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

I think track records are very important. If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you're well on your way to success in this world.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Honesty,sincer ity,simplicity, humility, pure generosity,abse nce of vanity,readines s to serve others -qualities which are within easy reach of every soul -are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing

That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.

Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies.