Quotes about Honesty

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

As one instance of this, be always ready to own any fault you have been in. If you have at any time thought, spoken, or acted wrong, be not backward to acknowledge it. Never dream that this will hurt the cause of God; no, it will further it. Be therefore open and frank when you are taxed with anything; do not seek either to evade or disguise it; but let it appear just as it is, and you will thereby not hinder but adorn the Gospel.

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.

The greatest want of the world is the want of men-men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

As we deal with our fellow men in petty dishonesty or in more daring fraud, so will we deal with God.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.