Quotes about Honesty

Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.

In any interview, you do say more or less than you mean.

No matter how hard we try to ignore it, the mind always knows truth and wants clarity.

It comforts everybody to think of all Negroes as dirt poor, and to regard those who were not, who earned good money and kept it, as some kind of shameful miracle. White people liked that idea because Negroes with money and sense made them nervous. Colored people liked it because, in those days, they trusted poverty, believed it was a virtue and a sure sign of honesty. Too much money had a whiff of evil and somebody else's blood.

Be real. Tell the truth. God can handle it.

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.

In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair the rest is in the hands of God.

hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is the best policy.

In politics as in philosophy, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this maxim was generally adopted, wars would cease and our swords would soon be converted into reap hooks and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy.