Honesty Quotes

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Honesty is the best policy.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls... that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the 'honesty' of the story.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.

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

If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.

'Truth Will Set U Free' is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination.

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

I feel honesty always works.

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

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it.

In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go.

True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty.

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

Honesty will never break you.

Honesty is something you can't wear out.