Quotes on Honesty

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right.

There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.

Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends on one's values.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.

In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education... But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualities which are within easy reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one supposed to be at once an arrow soaring skyward and an oak planted firmly in the ground? The meritocratic culture hones strivers on every aspect of their lives save one - how to cultivate character.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... But rather mourn the apathetic throng - _x000D_ The cowed and the meek - _x000D_ Who see the world's great anguish and its_x000D_ wrong_x000D_ And dare not speak!

These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds another year to slaughter and devastation; and laugh, from their desks, at bravery and science, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a siege or tempest.

Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.