Honesty Quotes - Page 34

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

You have to pretend like you want to use a condom. I like to say something fun when I bring it up, but honest. I'll be like, 'You're going to want to wear this. I've had a busy month.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.

[Middleton] contended that the religious leaders of the fourth century had admitted, eulogised, and habitually acted upon principles that were diametrically opposed, not simply to the aspirations of a transcendent sanctity, but to the dictates of the most common honesty. He showed that they had applauded falsehood, that they had practised the most wholesale forgery, that they had habitually and grossly falsified history, that they had adopted to the fullest extent the system of pious frauds, and that they continually employed them to stimulate the devotion of the people.

No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

On his mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: 'I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself.' To the executioner: 'Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thyne office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thyne honesty.'

Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

Every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger.

Love isn't about honesty. It's about protecting the people you love from things that will hurt them.

There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the morning. Seeing a bucket of perfectly lucid water We fall to imagining prodigious honesties.

I like to see honesty out of people. People who are trustworthy. I like to see people who are involved with The Lord.

A liar should have a good memory.

I'd say honesty is always the best policy. There are always a lot of arguments - but even if honesty starts some, it avoids bigger ones.

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

If, after a rigid examination, it be found an imposition, it should be extensively published to the world as such; the evidences and arguments on which the imposture was detected, should be clearly and logically stated, that those who have been sincerely yet unfortunately deceived, may perceive the nature of the deception and be reclaimed, and that those who continue to publish the delusion, may be exposed and silenced.

Honesty doesn't always pay, but dishonesty always costs.

Speak your truth quietly & clearly; and listen to others, even the dull & ignorant; they too have their story.

I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?