Quotes about Honesty

I think people can stand to take themselves just a little less seriously. I'm fighting the war against pretension.

The problem with keeping a secret is that you don't give someone a chance to come through for you, to prove to you that they love you unconditionally.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

I don't say very much I don't really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

We don't hide our space program. We don't keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public. That's the way freedom is, and we wouldn't change it for a minute.

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

Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate.

The man that never says "no" when questioned on subjects of which he is entirely ignorant, to avoid, as he imagines, being thought ignorant, but confidently puts forward guesses and assumptions as knowledge, will be known for his ignorance, and ill esteemed for his added conceit. An honest confession of ignorance will command respect where a conceited assumption of knowledge will elicit contempt.

You either go direct, or you do not communicate.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Some individuals appear to be "allergic" to honest work, but opportunity is equally allergic to them.