Quotes about Honesty
Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Truth to me is infinitely dearer than the 'mahatmaship' which is purely a burden.
- Mahatma Gandhi
To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.
- Mark Twain
You don't have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it.
- Maya Angelou
If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.
- Oprah Winfrey
Have the boldness to tell yourself the truth - every bit of it.
- Oprah Winfrey
We must learn to tell ourselves the truth on the basis of God's Word.
- Oswald Chambers
When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For he that feeds men serveth few; He serves all who dares be true.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson