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Quotes about Honesty

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
- Zig Ziglar
Integrity is built by defeating the temptation to be dishonest; humility grows when we refuse to be prideful; and endurance develops every time you reject the temptation to give up.
- Rick Warren
Truthless times need timeless truths.
- Mark Driscoll
The only time I ever find my dealings with God less than clear-cut is when I'm not being honest with Him. The fuzziness is always on my side, not His.
- Catherine Marshall
[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.
- Thomas Jefferson
Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.
- Duke Ellington
The young are not afraid of telling the truth.
- Anne Frank
I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile. The circle around me would be much smaller, but what does that matter, as long as they're sincere?
- Anne Frank
Be pure in heart,, be pure in mind!
- Anne Frank
Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, I hate you, God. That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you've had in months.
- Anne Lamott
Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.
- Anne Lamott
But I have to believe that Jesus prefers honesty to anything else. I was saying, Here's who I am, and that is where most improvement has to begin.
- Anne Lamott