Honest Quotes

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When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself. Tell him it… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. — Thomas Jefferson
You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean,… — Orison Swett Marden
Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. — Mother Teresa
There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her sentiments and manifesting… — Arthur Helps
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten. — Thomas Otway
When we are not honest, we are cut off from a significant resource of ourselves, a vital dimension that is necessary for unity and wholeness. — Clark Moustakas
To be direct and honest is not safe. — William Shakespeare
Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child. — Wes Fesler
In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor...… — Gordon B. Hinckley
You may talk about religion and speak about the Gospel, and say we have got the truth and the plan of salvation, and we have… — George Q. Cannon
Our goal is peace. We can gain that peace by strengthening our alliances, by speaking candidly about the dangers before us, by assuring potential adversaries… — Ronald Reagan
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest. — Norman Douglas
If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good… — Thomas A. Edison
To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty. — Plautus
I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people… — Mark Twain
All honest labor becomes easy; it only becomes hard when done with unwillingness. — Clive James
My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of. — Kiefer Sutherland
Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do you know anyone who hasn't changed his mind? This door was a tree, then it will be firewood for someone, then it will return… — Byron Katie
You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest. — Ambrose Bierce
[T]he yeoman's work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest. — Michio Kaku
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth… — John Stuart Mill
To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do… — Benicio Del Toro

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