Quotes about Honesty

If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.

It is easy to touch up your outward appearance, to look as if you have it all together. Your attempts to look good can fool most people. But I see straight through you, into the depths of your being. There is no place for pretense in your relationship with Me. Rejoice in the relief of being fully understood. Talk with Me about your struggles and feelings of inadequacy.

When you are with someone you trust completely, you feel free to be yourself. This is one of the joys of true friendship.

At the heart of the Ten Commandments is an Israelite's honesty about one's neighbor (Exod 20:16). At the heart of the Bible's ethic is telling the truth. Honesty mattered then and it matters now.

Martin Luther King Jr., closing down one of his sermons in the early days in Montgomery, speaks of what it means to be a witness: Honesty impels me to admit that transformed nonconformity, which is always costly and never altogether comfortable, may mean walking through the valley of the shadow of suffering, losing a job, or having a six-year-old daughter ask, "Daddy, why do you have to go to jail so much?

I've caught myself a time or two adding or embellishing. I don't think that pleases the Lord. I don't think He needs my dishonesty to convey His gospel.

When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

Homely truth is unpalatable.

It is never wrong to do the right thing.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.