Quotes about Honesty
If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.
— Dante Alighieri
It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.
— Harry S. Truman
A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.
— Mahatma Gandhi
An honest man is respected by all parties.
— William Hazlitt
That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all
— CS Lewis
One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
— Publilius Syrus
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
— Henry Ward Beecher
When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.
— John Tillotson
Only men of character are trusted.
— Zig Ziglar
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
— George Eliot