Quotes about Honesty
Your friend is intellectually honourable, Jimmy's mother would say. He doesn't lie to himself.
— Margaret Atwood
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date.
— Margaret Atwood
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.
— Margaret Atwood
Unlike some other religions, we have never felt it served a higher purpose to lie to children about geology.
— Margaret Atwood
After all you've been through, you deserve whatever I have left, which is not much but includes the truth.
— Margaret Atwood
In God we trust, all others pay cash.
— Margaret Atwood
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
— Zig Ziglar
Integrity is built by defeating the temptation to be dishonest; humility grows when we refuse to be prideful; and endurance develops every time you reject the temptation to give up.
— Rick Warren
Truthless times need timeless truths.
— Mark Driscoll
The only time I ever find my dealings with God less than clear-cut is when I'm not being honest with Him. The fuzziness is always on my side, not His.
— Catherine Marshall
[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.
— Thomas Jefferson
Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.
— Duke Ellington