Honesty Quotes

The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.

People are consuming more than ever, but I think they want a bit of honesty and depth. Adele, Gotye, Janelle Monae - they're giving you a catchy song, but it's also a challenging song at the same time.

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.

Party honesty is party expediency.

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

Honesty has always been very important to me.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

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.

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.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.

There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

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.