Honesty Quotes And Sayings

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“I’ve done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.”
– Jessamyn West

“I’m not mean, I’m honest. Nobody is ever straightforward. But sometimes people need to hear the truth.”
– Jessica Warman

“If a man asks me for my loyalty…I will give him my honesty.”
– John Boyd

“All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.”
– John Quincy Adams

“To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.”
– John Ruskin

“It has always seemed strange to me… the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
– John Steinbeck

“Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?”
– John Steinbeck

“For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I’m human and I’m normal – well, semi-normal.”
– Johnny Depp

“A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.”
– Jose Marti

“Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain’t lawful tender for a loaf of bread.”
– Josh Billings

“Honesty has always worked for me.”
– Katy Perry

“And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
– Khaled Hosseini

“Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.”
– Lao Tzu

“The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”
– Laura Ingalls Wilder

“The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.”
– Laurell K. Hamilton

“It was a huge comfort to have a person who’d keep you honest with yourself and who also gave you safe harbour.”
– Lauren Dane

“A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.”
– Lawrence G. Lovasik

“Anything is better than lies and deceit!”
– Leo Tolstoy

“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking…”
– Leo Tolstoy

“To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.”
– Leo Tolstoy

“Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.”
– Louisa May Alcott

“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.”
– Louise Slaughter

“Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“I like honesty and fair play.”
– Marcus Garvey

“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth.”
– Margaret Dilloway

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