Honesty Quotes
Living up to basic ethical standards in the classroom - Discipline, tolerance, honesty - Is one of the most important ways children learn how to function in society at large.Eloise Salholz
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.Sir Walter Besant
Honesty is for the most part, less profitable than dishonesty.Plato
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.John Quincy Adams
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.Merry Browne
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.Don Marquis
What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self - Respect, and the courage of conviction.David L Boren
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?Cicero
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.H. L. Mencken
They envy the distinction I have won let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.Sallust
I am sure you will be guided right in your decision, to place implicit faith in his integrity and honesty. Best wishes from one who has known Richard longer than anyone else. His mother.Hannah Nixon
Honesty is being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.Federico Fellini, 8 1/2
If our actions stem from honesty, kindness, caring, and vision, then no matter what the result of our efforts, we have added something of value to our souls and to the world.Joan Boysenko, Pocketful of Miracles
No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.J. Lawton Collins
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.Benjamin Franklin
Honesty is probably the sexiest thing a man can give to a woman.Debra Messing
It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.H. L. Mencken
It was a grand trait of the old Roman that with him one and the same word meant both honor and honesty.Advance
In all honesty, Johnny, we are often at the mercy of the White House for the news we report. Frequently, we simply repeat verbatim what the White House tells us.Connie Chung to Johnny Carson
Hatred of dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.Marquis de Vauvenargues
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.Salvador Dali
The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.Richard Needham
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.Thomas Jefferson
Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality - - Do whatever makes the most money.Barry Schwartz
Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.William Shakespeare, "Timon of Athens", Act 3 scene 1
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.Plutarch, Morals
Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.Sallust
It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for any public office.Henry Louis Mencken
No legacy is so rich as honesty.William Shakespeare
Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.Mother Theresa
Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.Bourke Cockran
Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.Luther Standing Bea
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.Mark Twain
Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.Joseph Sugarman
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.George Bernard Shaw
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty.Cicero
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.Ralph Waldo Emerson
