Honesty Quotes - page 26

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself. (William Shakespeare)
The good I stand on is my truth and honesty. View quote
William Shakespeare
There's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men all perjured, all forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers. View quote
William Shakespeare
Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty? View quote
William Shakespeare
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind. View quote
William Shakespeare
That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty. View quote
William Shakespeare
Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house as your pearl in a foul oyster. View quote
William Shakespeare
Love thyself last; cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. View quote
William Shakespeare
My generation isn't tolerant of what they see as fake or staged. They're looking for authenticity and honesty. Journalists who want to reach them need to be able to say, ‘I don't personally have all the answers, but I do have a good idea about where we'll find them.' View quote
Nicole Lapin
Money inspires activity, not honesty. View quote
Eugene J. Martin
I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft. (Cornel West)
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. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
Master Tyrwhit and others have told me that there goeth rumors abroad which be greatly both against mine honor and honesty, which above all other things I esteem, which be these: that I am in the Tower and with child by my lord admiral. My lord, these are shameful slanders, for the which, besides the great desire I have to see the king's majesty, I shall most heartily desire your lordship that I may come to the court after your first determination, that I may show myself there as I am. Written in haste from Hatfield this 28 of January. Your assured friend to my little power, Elizabeth. View quote
Elizabeth I of England
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. View quote
Mark Twain
The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the day is long. Early to bed, early to rise. American virtues are daylight virtues: honesty, integrity, plain speech. We say yes when we mean yes and no when we mean no, and all else comes from the evil one. America presumes innocence and even the right to happiness. View quote
Richard Rodriguez
I've always felt that acting is acting, at the end of the day, so whether you're doing comedy or heavy drama or anything else in between, you always have to bring a semblance of honesty to it. It's all make believe. View quote
Benjamin Bratt
Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to. View quote
Tucker Carlson
It was nobly said in another place (I heard it with pleasure, and thought it becoming the dignity of the person who pronounced it, and the place in which it was pronounced) "that the law is best applied, when it is subservient to the honesty of the case." View quote
Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet
Are we still of any use? What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straightforward men. Will our inward power of resistance be strong enough, and our honesty with ourselves remoreseless enough, for us to find our way back to simplicity and straightforwardness? View quote
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based upon fear and hope, such morality has always been a vile product, imbued partly with self-righteousness, partly with hypocrisy. As to truth, justice, and fidelity, who have been their brave exponents and daring proclaimers? Nearly always the godless ones: the Atheists; they lived, fought, and died for them. They knew that justice, truth, and fidelity are not conditioned in heaven, but that they are related to and interwoven with the tremendous changes going on in the social and material life of the human race; not fixed and eternal, but fluctuating, even as life itself. View quote
Emma Goldman
Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself. (Akira Kurosawa)
As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility. View quote
Nelson Mandela
People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense. View quote
Ben Carson
The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and obeys orders, remembers duties that it has been taught, is pleased by affection and by marks of honour, nay more it possesses virtues rare even in man, honesty, wisdom, justice, also respect for the stars and reverence for the sun and moon. View quote
Pliny the Elder
It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don't know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we've got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, 'Is this it? Are we still relevant?' View quote
Bono