Quotes about Honesty
It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
- George Bernard Shaw
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
- George Bernard Shaw
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
- George Bernard Shaw
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
- George Bernard Shaw
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
- George Eliot
Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.
- George Eliot
My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.
- Isabel Allende
Nothing can grow in the shade of secrets, she would say, love needs light and space to flourish.
- Isabel Allende
Nothing strong can be built on a foundation of lies and omissions.
- Isabel Allende
The elderly are the most entertaining people in the world, she eventually told Irina. They have lived a lot, say whatever they like, and couldn't care less about other people's opinion.
- Isabel Allende
I have zero ego.
- Ryan Fitzpatrick
Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being free from flatterers.
- Samuel Johnson