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Quotes about Honesty

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.
- St. Anthony of Padua
The ultimate step in taking responsibility is making sure our actions line up with our words.
- John Maxwell
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.
- Albert Einstein
Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for.
- Harold S. Kushner
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
- Lyman Beecher
There should be no relenting in our efforts to influence politics and politicians. But in the name of honesty and sanity we must recognize the limits of politics.
- Wendell Berry
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
- William Faulkner
I mind how I said to you once that there is a price for being good the same as for being bad; a cost to pay. And it's the good men that cant deny the bill when it comes around. They cant deny it for the reason that there aint any way to make them pay it, like a honest man that gambles. The bad men can deny it; that's why dont anybody expect them to pay on sight or any other time. But the good cant. Maybe it takes longer to pay for being good than for being bad.
- William Faulkner
Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism--unless the criticized isn't within earshot.
- William Faulkner
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
- William Faulkner
Cash is filling up the holes he bored in the top of it. He is trimming out plugs for them, one at a time, the wood wet and hard to work. He could cut up a tin can and hide the holes and nobody wouldn't know the difference. Wouldn't mind, anyway. I have seen him spend a hour trimming out a wedge like it was glass he was working, when he could have reached around and picked up a dozen sticks and drove them into the joint and made it do.
- William Faulkner