Quotes about Honesty

The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you are saying.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.