Quotes on Honesty

The only security lies in individual, personal honesty, The law cannot make people honest.

No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special.

Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.

If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind

In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest.

I believe that we are fundamentally the same and have the same basic potential.

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'

Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless.

To be direct and honest is not safe.

The love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves from ourselves.

When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself. Tell him it is not the best way; that you have tried it. Tell him as the man did in Maine when his boy left home: "John, honesty is the best policy; I have tried both."

I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock I stand. That he will not torture the forgiving. Upon that rock I stand. That every man should be true to himself, and that there is no world, no star in which honesty is a crime. Upon that rock I stand.

One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged.

It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.

Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.

You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him.