Quotes about Honesty
The truth is the only thing that doesn't hurt. The truth is a giant hand. It both cuts and holds us tight.
- Charles Martin
Trust in the person's promise, who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.
- Charles Spurgeon
My dear boy... anybody can be good in the country.
- Oscar Wilde
It is alike your interest and mine and all men's, however long we have dwelt in lies, to live in truth.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the immortal spirit. Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of prussic acid.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Thought for the day. Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Is it ever acceptable to be angry at God? I would suggest that it is not only acceptable, it may be one of the hallmarks of a truly religious person. It puts honesty ahead of flattery.
- Harold S. Kushner
find God in the willingness of so many people to do the right thing, even when the right thing is difficult, expensive, or unappreciated, and to reject the wrong thing no matter how tempting or profitable.
- Harold S. Kushner
My list of the worst offenses against God would begin with hurting another person, cheating another person, shaming another person.
- Harold S. Kushner
Any God worth worshipping should prefer honest anger to hypocritical praise.
- Harold S. Kushner
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.
- Harry S. Truman