I learned years ago not to doze off or leave my wallet lying around in the presence of people who tell me that they are more moral than others.
Carl Rowan
I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain (what I consider the most enviable of all titles) the character of an "Honest Man."
George Washington
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.
Abraham Lincoln
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
Don Marquis
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
Cicero
The universe does not favor the greedy, the dishonest, the vicious, although on the mere surface it may sometimes appear to do so; it helps the honest, the magnanimous, the virtuous. All the great Teachers of the ages have declared this in varying forms, and to prove and know it a man has but to persist in making himself more and more virtuous by lifting up his thoughts.
James Allen
This above all, to thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare
Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility.
Gerry Spence
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful.
Edward Murrow
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