Quotes about Honesty
That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.
- Confucius
What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.
- Mark Twain
A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.
- Oswald Chambers
Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.
- Abraham Lincoln
The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.
- Aristotle
A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.
- CS Lewis
To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.
- John Adams
Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.
- Charles Spurgeon
It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.
- Abraham Lincoln
An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.
- AW Tozer
The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.
- Albert Camus
The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.
- Elbert Hubbard