Honesty Quotes - Page 25

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.

An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.

A man who becomes used to deluding himself, who fails to face his own faults with revolutionary honesty and even lies to himself, is the most likely to become a traitor, since lying is the beginning of treachery.

Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.

Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting.

The catch-all phrase "the war on terrorism", in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war against "criminal gangsterism". Terrorism is a tactic. You can't have a war against a tactic. It's deliberately vague and non-definable in order to justify and permit perpetual war anywhere and under any circumstance.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, east a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

My love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned.

The legal system doesn't always serve as a good guide for your conscience. You can step way over the ethical line and still be inside the law. The same thing goes for rules, policies and procedures - you know, the organization's "internal laws." You can "go by the book" and still behave unethically. Still not move beyond mediocrity. High standards-the ethics of excellence-come to life through your basic values, your character, integrity and honesty. Obeying the law is the bare minimum.

A bright future beckons. The onus is on us, through hard work, honesty and integrity, to reach for the stars.

As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis than I have been by any philosophers I read in college and grad school. The events and characters in Narnia and Middle Earth shaped my ideals, my dreams, my goals. Kant just annoyed me.

If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.

It doesn't mean old or younger. I've learned a lot from people much younger than me as well as people much older than me. So I think it's about honesty and generosity.

Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.