Honesty Quotes - page 2

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. (Nancy Pelosi)
Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night. View quote
John Ruskin
Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. View quote
George Washington
The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. View quote
Don Marquis
I do not play games, but always just say what's on my mind. Ostentatious modesty - for fools. If a man afraid of your honesty, it means that he is not the one you need. View quote
Mila Kunis
Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
As for philosophy, it makes an architect high-minded and not self-assuming, but rather renders him courteous, just, and honest without avariciousness. This is very important, for no work can be rightly done without honesty and incorruptibility. View quote
Vitruvius
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. (Gerald Ford)
Honesty is the best policy; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis - in the city ... View quote
Samuel R. Delany
Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands of us an honesty that few of us could sustain. View quote
Junot Diaz
Honesty will never break you. View quote
Kate Hudson
Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy. View quote
Kelly Rowland
And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street. View quote
Ben E. King
Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time. View quote
Dave Van Ronk
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. View quote
Federica Montseny
I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake. View quote
Graeme Murphy
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. View quote
Louise Slaughter
More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding. (Paul D. Boyer)
The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded. View quote
Scott Hamilton
I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story. View quote
Charles de Lint
The rich, the well-born, and the able, acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too much for simple honesty and plain sense, in a house of representatives. The most illustrious of them must, therefore, be separated from the mass, and placed by themselves in a senate; this is, to all honest and useful intents, an ostracism. View quote
John Adams
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. View quote
John Quincy Adams