Quotes about Honesty
Few men are wantonly wicked.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.
— Mark Twain
No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.
— Mark Twain
Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.
— Pierre Corneille
Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.
— Henry David Thoreau
Men are as innocent as the morning to the unsuspicious.
— Henry David Thoreau
There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.
— Herman Melville
No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
— Theodore Roosevelt
I'm proud to be associated with the value system at Berkshire Hathaway; I think you'll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad.
— Charlie Munger
To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.
— George Bernard Shaw