Honesty Quotes

2237 Honesty quotes by 1349 unique authors

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. — Ayn Rand
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth. — Adrienne Rich
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel… — Dave Van Ronk
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. — Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? — Eleanor Roosevelt
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
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. — Theodore Roosevelt
Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy. — Kelly Rowland
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. — Salman Rushdie
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. — John Ruskin
The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or… — Bertrand Russell
Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up. — George Saunders
Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward. — Laura Schlessinger
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. — Arthur Schopenhauer
No legacy is so rich as honesty. — William Shakespeare
Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that… — Willard Scott
A promise made is a debt unpaid. — Robert W. Service
Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him. — William Shakespeare
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. — George Bernard Shaw
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. — George Bernard Shaw
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. — George Bernard Shaw
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor. — George Bernard Shaw
I love the honesty of New Yorkers. When a New Yorker says 'let's do lunch,' they actually mean it. In L.A., when they say 'let's… — Sherri Shepherd
I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless… — Sarah Silverman

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