Quotes about Honesty

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.

1425: When you really like someone, tell them. Sometimes you only get one chance.

Christians can have doubts and they can have questions, and the unhealthy way to deal with that is to keep them inside where they fester and grow and can undermine our faith. The healthy way to deal with it is to talk about it and be honest about it.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.

A wife who discomforts you with truth is better than a mistress who massages you with lies.

I do admit there have been times when I have made a statement that was incorrect.

Never lie, never cheat, never steal.

This is not a showman's job. I will not step out of character.

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my family, my farm, my friends and books.

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.