Honesty Quotes - Page 14

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

The eyes are witnesses that the heavens revolve in the space of twenty- four hours. But certain men, either from the love of novelty, or to make a display of ingenuity, have concluded that the earth moves; and they maintain that neither the eighth sphere nor the sun revolves....Now, it is a want of honesty and decency to assert such notions publicly, and the example is pernicious. It is the part of a good mind to accept the truth as revealed by God and to acquiesce in it.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

Honor lies in honest toil.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

Do what is right... do it with honesty and vigor. Be creative - thats important. Dont follow what other people are doing.

Every Saturday we work in the yard, pick up the dog doo, hope that it's hard.

I never ask for nothin' I don't demand of myself. Honesty, loyalty, friends and then wealth

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before Blows? How shall Desert and Accomplishment meet Despising, Detraction, and Lies? What shall Virtue do to meet Brute Force? There are so many answers and so contradictory; and such differences for those on the one hand who meet questions similar to this once a year or once a decade, and those who face them hourly and daily.

It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

I like honesty and fair play.

Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.

Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.

To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.

The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.