Honesty Quotes - Page 6

• Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Athens, Faults

  1605 Lucullus, of Timon.Timon of Athens, act 3, sc.1, l.27-8.

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• I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.

  Raymond Chandler

  Crazy, Believe, Terrible

  1957 Letter to Edgar Carter, 3 Jun.

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• Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it.

  John Ruskin

  Policy

  'Time and Tide' (1867) letter 8

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• 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.'

  Thomas More

  Life, Success, Men

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• It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth,--those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than those who have it not. No poor man can well afford to be thought so, and the less of honesty a finished rogue possesses the less he can afford to be supposed to want it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Credit, Care

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.377

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• It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.

  William Shenstone

  Pain, Knaves, Being Honest

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.151

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• The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Wise, Meditation, Trying

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.156, Shambhala Publications

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• Detachment is not about refusing to feel or not caring or turning away from those you love. Detachment is profoundly honest, grounded firmly in the truth of what is.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Love, Truth, Caring

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Dec 04, 2013

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• An entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishonest knave: the best and the worst are only approximations of those qualities. Who are those that never contradict themselves? yet honesty never contradicts itself: Who are those that always contradict themselves? yet knavery is mere self-contradiction. Thus the knowledge of man determines not the things themselves, but their proportions, the quan∣tum of congruities and incongruities.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Men, Self, Quality

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• There is no man but for his own interest hath an obligation to be honest. There may be sometimes temptations to be otherwise; but, all cards cast up, he shall find it the greatest ease, the highest profit, the best pleasure, the most safety, and the noblest fame, to hold the horns of this altar, which, in all assays, can in himself protect him.

  Owen Feltham

  Men, Safety, Temptation

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• People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.

  Bill Murray

  Music, Truth, People

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• I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.

  Summer Altice

  Loyalty, Respect, Numbers

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• Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Trust, Being Yourself

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• Inspirational Quotes on: Honesty, Simplicity, Secret, Universe, Modesty, Peace
  Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Book, Simplicity, Secret

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• Integrity has no need of rules.

  Albert Camus

  Integrity, Needs, Ethics

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.66, Vintage

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• Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Truth, Dignity

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• The time is always right to do what is right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  "This Dallas Boy's MLK Jr. Speech Is Such A Sweet Message For Today's World" by Sarah Friedmann, www.bustle.com. January 2018.

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

  Richard Bach

  Encouraging, Wisdom, Encouragement

  "With a Conscience — ‘It’s Not You. It’s Me.’" by Claudia King, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2014.

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• Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, Liberty

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

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• Chase after the truth like all hell.

  Clarence Darrow

  Truth, Catching Fire, Catching Up

  The Sign Magazine, May 1938.

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• We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

  Denis Diderot

  Inspirational, Trust, Truth

  "Rameau's Nephew". Book by Denis Diderot, 1821.

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• Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

  Napoleon Hill

  Truth, Law, Indulge In

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “The Law of Success: The 16 Secrets for Achieving Wealth & Prosperity”, p.545, Courier Corporation

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• I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Thinking, Used, Form

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• Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.

  Ang Lee

  Issues, Being Honest, Sexuality

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• I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Success, Truth

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 2, 1595.

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