Honesty Quotes
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Honesty, the quality of being honest, is a value which can be defined in multiple ways. In the context of human communication, people are generally said to be honest when they tell the truth to the best of their knowledge and do not hide what they know or think. Apart from being truthful, honesty is also generally thought to involve abstaining from unfair behavior, such as stealing or cheating on a test. It is the quality of being honest. Youth tells the truth when it is not easy to tell.
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Honesty quotes are the thoughts over the fact of being true to oneself. These quotes highlight a particular character of a person of showing truthfulness to one self or the peers around him. Honesty is by itself a virtue of finding the comfort among others when there is truth all around, with no trickery and deceit anywhere.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! - Marmion.
Sir Walter Scott
No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
Cicero
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
Arthur C. Clarke
Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
Billy Graham
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
Don Marquis
The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
Euripides
Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
Steve Landesberg
People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
Richard J. Needham
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
If Cleveland Indians' Wahoo is racist are not also Boston Celtics? naming a team for only part of the city?
O Anna Niemus
There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.
John F. Dodge
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Kin Hubbard
If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
Mark Twain
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Mary MacCracken
When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.
Pamela Ribon
Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
Sam Rayburn
Honest hearts produce honest actions.
Brigham Young
When in doubt, tell the truth.
Mark Twain
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.
Judith Martin
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
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
William Shakespeare
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
Thomas Jefferson
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.
Thomas Sowell
Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.
William Shakespeare
Honesty is the best image.
Tom Wilson
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Walter Anderson
I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.
William Shakespeare The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
Merry Browne
There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.
John F. Dodge
Don't measure your neighbor's honesty by your own.
American Proverb
No such thing as a man willing to be honest -- that would be like a blind man willing to see.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
William Shakespeare
Don't worry so much about your self- esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
Laura Schlessinger
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Henry David Thoreau
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Spencer Johnson
Look a man in the eye and say what you really think, don't just smile at him and say what you're supposed to think.
Author Unknown
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Alexander Pope
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John Ruskin
Do not do what you would undo if caught.
Leah Arendt
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
William Shakespeare
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
Robert Burns
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