Honest Quotes - Page 3

When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.

The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

The most important thing in business is honesty, integrity, hard work familynever forgetting where we came from.

How can anyone expect to be understood unless he presents his thoughts with complete honesty? This situation is unfair because it asks too much of the world. In effect, we say, ' I don't dare show you what I am because I don't trust you for a minute but please love me anyway because I so need you to. And, of course, if you don't love me anyway, you're a dirty dog, just as I suspected, so I was right in the first place.' Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.

People of integrity and honesty not only practice what they preach, they are what they preach.

God will allow us to follow self-help, self-improvement programs until we have tried them all, until we finally come to the honest confession, ‘I can't do it. I can't be righteous in my own strength!’ It is then, when we admit our utter powerlessness, that we find hope. For it is then when the Lord intervenes to do a work that we could not do for ourselves.

I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.

In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

Christ had no interest in gathering vast crowds of professed adherents who would melt away as soon as they found out what following Him actually demanded of them. In our own presentation of Christ's gospel, therefore, we need to lay a similar stress on the cost of following Christ and make sinners face it soberly before we urge them to respond to the message of free forgiveness. In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.

There is no future for a people who deny their past.

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.