Honesty Quotes

Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.

I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.

I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.

My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.

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.

The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.

Honesty is as much saying everything as it is saying what is true.

Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.

Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Honesty is very sexy.

I like honesty and fair play.