Quotes about Honesty

Humility is not denying your strengths. Humility is being honest about your weaknesses. All of us are a bundle of both great strengths and great weaknesses and humility is being able to be honest about both.

To develop your integrity, make a commitment to yourself to be scrupulously honest. Don't shave the truth, don't tell white lies, and don't fudge numbers. Be truthful even when it hurts. To develop authenticity, be yourself with everyone. Don't play politics, role play, or pretend to be anything you're not. To strengthen your discipline, do the right things every day regardless of how you feel.

Leading with a lack of integrity is choosing to fail before taking your first step."

The respect that leadership must have requires that one's ethics be without question. A leader not only stays above the line between right and wrong, he stays well clear of the 'gray areas.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality." That can happen only when the leader is willing to hear and face the truth.

An honest answer is like a kiss of friendship.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular a.. that does so whom we can't tolerate