Quotes about Honesty
Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Anonymous
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
- James A. Garfield
I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.
- Henry Ward Beecher
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
- Samuel Johnson
The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
- Abraham Lincoln
As long as we are faking it we are just showing the world how to fake it - but they already are! They want to see us get real.
- Louie Giglio
The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained.
- Rachel Held Evans
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
- Frederick Douglass
Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.
- Abraham Lincoln