Honesty Quotes - Page 7

• It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.

  Harry S. Truman

  Men, Public Opinion, World

  Harry S. Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (1997). “Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman”, p.310, University of Missouri Press

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• 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.

  Hugh Prather

  Stupid, Moving, Humble

  Hugh Prather (2003). “Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions”, p.46, Conari Press

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• Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Confidence, Patriotic, Faithful

  First Inaugural Address, Delivered 4 March 1933

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• Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

  George Saunders

  Irony, Honest, Volume

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• It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

  Tom Stoppard

  Witty, Truth, Humorous

  Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.49, University of Michigan Press

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• Anything is better than lies and deceit!

  Leo Tolstoy

  Lying, Deceit, Changing Your Life

  Leo Tolstoy (2014). “Anna Karenina”, p.378, OUP Oxford

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• Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

  Abraham Lincoln

  Truth, Libel, Slander

  Gordon Leidner, Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Quotes, Quips, and Speeches”, p.37, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.

  Vera Nazarian

  Heart, Dark, Glasses

  "The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration: Old Wisdom for a New World". Book by Vera Nazarian, 2010.

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• There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.

  William Shakespeare

  Trust, Men, No Trust

  William Shakespeare, George Walton Williams (1964). “The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet: A Critical Edition”, p.127, Duke University Press

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• Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter.

  Daniel Handler

  Trust, Truth, Father Son

  "The Penultimate Peril: A Series of Unfortunate Events #12". Book by Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket), October 18, 2005.

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• It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Memories, Lying, Reason

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Thinking, People

  Mark Twain (2014). “Following The Equator”, p.59, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

  Ovid

  Annoyed, Purpose, Annoying

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• An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.

  William Shakespeare

  Honest, Speed, Tales

  'Richard III' (1591) act 4, sc. 4, l. 359

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• You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Creative, Soul

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• Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Army, Men, Soldier

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1285, Library of Alexandria

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• He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a partnership with honesty.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Mean, May, Faults

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• Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Honesty
  Any kind of lasting success is rooted in honesty.

  Russell Simmons

  Self, Development, Kind

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• Motivational Quotes on: Honesty, Success, Kind
  There was a tremendous modesty in the man as he spoke, a quietness and dignity. There was a simplicity and honesty and unselfconsciousness, and a tremendous peace.

  Walter Russell

  Men, Simplicity, Dignity

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

  Thomas Otway

  Men, Knaves, Easy

  Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes”, p.17

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• I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

  George Washington

  Trust, Hope, Truth

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.46, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Truth, Integrity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.165, Harvard University Press

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• A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Truth, Lying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

  George Herbert

  Truth, Lying, Two

  Jeremy Taylor, John Wheeldon, George Herbert (1768). “Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor”, p.98

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

  Aristotle

  Truth, Ethics, Deviation

  Aristotle (2015). “On The Heavens”, p.10, Aristotle

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