Quotes on Honesty
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
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
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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
It is better to have a thief than a liar working for you, because at least you can watch a thief.
Larry Winget
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I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
Lee Iacocca
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
Alan Greenspan
Let him who would be happy for a day go to the barber; for a week, marry a wife; for a month, buy him a new horse; for a year, build him a new house; for all his lifetime, be an honest man.
Thomas Fuller
Don't place too much confidence in the man who boasts of being as honest as the day is long. Wait until you meet him at night.
Robert Edwards
Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Honesty is like food. Both are necessary, but too much of either creates discomfort.
Scott Adams
There's only one story in life for which you'll have every answer: the truth. If you live an exemplary life, and do what you're supposed to do, you walk down the block and you don't worry if someone is tapping you on the shoulder asking a question.
Bob Hurley
I don't think telling the truth ever gets anyone in trouble in the long run. Maybe the day after, but not in the long run.
Steve Spurrier
Honesty is telling the truth - in other words, conforming our words to reality. Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.
Stephen Covey
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The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
Anne Lindbergh
I think track records are very important. If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you're well on your way to success in this world.
Charlie Munger
Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enough to be honest.
Benjamin Franklin
I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.
David Ricardo
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