Honesty Quotes
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Beautify your tongues, O people, with truthfulness, and adorn your souls with the ornament of honesty. Beware, O people, that ye deal not treacherously with any one.
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Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise.
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Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all 'meaning' of the thing seen. Then only, could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty. Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I've had close relationships with.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.
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I like stability in a man, honesty, and security about who you are and what you think of yourself.
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Love and honesty are the things that make a good wife and mother.
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For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar.
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Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.
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Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.
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You know, I find people with great honesty, bodily, physical honesty, who sit just the way they like to sit, and walk the way they like to walk, and don't come into a room all pumped up, I find them elegant.
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I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.
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Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.
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It is Proust's implacable honesty, his reluctance to cut corners or to articulate what might have been good enough or credible enough in any other writer that make him the introspective genius he is.
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You lie once.. you lie for the rest of your life... and in quest of proving your innocence.. you pledge your honesty with utter lies.... !!!
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The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.
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You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.
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Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.
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Everyone appreciates me for my honesty. Why shouldn't I speak my mind? I will not say I am blunt. I don't speak about others.
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Honesty is love.
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I can sleep fine at night knowing that even though my honesty might not translate very diplomatically, the words I speak have good intent, and I live my life with great integrity.
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Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.
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Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.
