Quotes about Honesty
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
- Dorothy Day
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Character is what you are in the dark.
- DL Moody
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
- David Starr Jordan
Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.
- Norman Vincent Peale
God is clever, but not dishonest.
- Albert Einstein
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
- Benjamin Disraeli
It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.
- George Washington
There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.
- Ronald Reagan
Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.
- St. Augustine
I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.
- Henry Rollins
Good character improves every aspect of a person's life.
- John Maxwell