Honesty Quotes

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

Don Marquis

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Salvador Dali

Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Honesty is probably the sexiest thing a man can give to a woman.

Debra Messing

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

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

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. On President Richard M Nixon.

Irving Layton

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

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty.

Cicero

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

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

Sallust

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; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

Richard Whately, Archbishop of Dublin

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

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

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

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Merry Browne

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

It was a grand trait of the old Roman that with him one and the same word meant both honor and honesty.

Advance

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

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

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

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

Mark Twain

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare, "Timon of Athens", Act 3 scene 1

Honesty is being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.

Federico Fellini, 8 1/2

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

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

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

Honesty rare as a man without self - Pity, kinders as large and plain as a prairie wind.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Hatred of dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.

Marquis de Vauvenargues

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

William Shakespeare

They envy the distinction I have won let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

Sallust

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Plutarch, Morals

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 the best image.

Tom Wilson, Ziggy (comic)

I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world.

Glen Cook, Shadow Games