Quotes on Honesty

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.

Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed - while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.""The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.