Quotes about Honesty

'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what's right.

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore."

A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin, the mechanism that makes it is infinitely cunninger, and you shall not conceal the sleezy, fraudulent, rotten hours you have slipped into the piece, nor fear that any honest thread, or straighter ste.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.

In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.