Honesty Quotes - Page 55

Intimacy with God is that I can come in with the honesty of my heart, tell Him how much I'm hurting.

The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.

Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through.

No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest.

Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.

He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.

And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.

Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.

Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.

Character is something each one of us must build for himself, out of the laws of God and nature, the examples of others, and - most of all - out of the trials and errors of daily life. Character is the total of thousands of small daily strivings to live up to the best that is in us. Character is the final decision to reject whatever is demeaning to oneself or to others and with confidence and honest to choose the right.

Character is the final decision to reject whatever is demeaning to oneself or to others and with confidence and honesty choose what is right.

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.

Actually I don't know if honesty is a strength or some kind of weakness.

But in all honesty, I would suggest that people who want a modern "free" OS look around for a microkernel-based, portable OS, like maybe GNU or something like that.

As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter.

Honesty has become the second best policy with your spouse…discretions apply elsewhere

The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary clothes, so that nothing be lacking to honesty and necessity, yet nothing be added to increase its beauty.

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.

Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.