Quotes about honesty

"If you follow only one rule, let it be this one: Be yourself. The really strong boy-girl relationships are based on what people really are, not on what they pretend to be."

Unknown, Source on honesty   

"Look a man in the eye and say what you really think, don't just smile at him and say what you're supposed to think."

Unknown, Source on honesty   

"On this mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: I pray you Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself. To the executioner: Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thy office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thy honesty."

Unknown, Source on honesty   

"There is no right way to do something wrong."

Unknown, Source on honesty   

"Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy."

Unknown, Source on honesty   

"An honest man is the best thing on the sod; but a mother and her babe is the noblest work of God."

Unknown, Source on honesty   

"Honesty shines like a light through your eyes."

Unknown, Source on honesty   

"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."

Washington, George on honesty
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"You can't make wrong work."

Waterhouse, Gerald on honesty   

"Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man."

Whately, Richard on honesty   

"Be prepared and be honest."

Wooden, John on honesty   

"Honest hearts produce honest actions."

Young, Brigham on honesty
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"Truth and honesty are quite different. What a person believes to be true always follows when honesty leads the way. But truth can be asserted when one is being dishonest as well."

Parslow, Eric on honesty