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Quotes about Honesty

If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth" (1 John 1:8). It seems God leads us through failure toward maturity, rather than doing whatever is needed for us to move past ongoing failure.
- Larry Crabb
This was a religious problem, my father felt; people can want to be deceived. Do not deceive, the Kotzker rebbe insisted, and that also means do not deceive oneself by being gullible.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
If a man says to you, I have labored and not found, do not believe him. If he says, I have not labored but still have found, do not believe him. If he says, I have labored and found, you may believe him.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
- Abraham Lincoln
I am nothing, truth is everything.
- Abraham Lincoln
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer
- Abraham Lincoln
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.
- Adrian Rogers