Quotes about Honesty

We are men of action. Lies do not become us.

In a world that is being darkened by evil images and dishonest messages, you have been blessed to recognize more easily the flashes of light and truth. You have learned for yourself that light grows brighter as you receive it gladly. It will become brighter and brighter until the perfect day when we will be in the presence of the Source of the light.

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

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

The natural thing to do is to work—to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort.

The natural thing to do is to work to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort. Human ills flow largely from attempting to escape from this natural course.

The healthy business, the business that is always making more and more opportunities for men to earn an honourable and ample living, is the business in which every man does a day's work of which he is proud. And the country that stands most securely is the country in which men work honestly and do not play tricks with the means of production. We cannot play fast and loose with economic laws, because if we do they handle us in very hard ways.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

Sorrow makes men sincere.

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.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.