Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerry Spence

Lawyers should be chosen because they can demonstrate a history rich in human traits, the ability to care, the courage to fight, the will to win, a concern for the human condition, a passion for justice and simple uncompromising honesty. These are the traits of the lawyer.

Gretchen Wilson

They're the kind of people who were honest. They'd listen and tell me what they thought - the kind of honesty you need when you're trying to perfect your craft.

Neil Gaiman

I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.

John Webster

Were there no heaven nor hell I should be honest.

John Tillotson

Integrity gains strength by use.

John Steinbeck

To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

John Steinbeck

Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?

Scott Hamilton

The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.

Todd Rundgren

And so it's inescapable and people who proclaim scrupulous honesty can only proclaim that if they don't examine closely the things they believe.

Rajneesh

The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present moment, not to the past, not to the future.

Socrates

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

Socrates

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

Meredith Monk

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

Michael Moriarty

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

Theodore Roosevelt

The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty, the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence.

Theodore Dreiser

The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.

Margaret Mead

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Marcus Garvey

I like honesty and fair play.

Michael Parenti

The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward and often much punishment-or at least much handicap-to honesty, compassion, fair play, many forms of hard work, love of justice, and a concern for those in need.

Michael Ealy

What I've learned is that the most precious commodity you can have in a relationship is honesty, good or bad.

Randy Pausch

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'

Ramsey Clark

Honesty is the best policy in international relations, interpersonal relations, labor, business, education, family and crime control because truth is the only thing that works and the only foundation on which lasting relations can build.

Eric Hoffer

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

James Altucher

Honesty is about the scars. Its about the blemishes. But its more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. Its about truly helping people.

James Altucher

Branding jails corporate America, but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.

James Altucher

Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.

James Allen

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

James Allen

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I think my family love each other so much and expect so much from each other, and I think we expect a type of honesty in the work that we all do.

Henry Adams

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.

An inch in a man's nose is much.

Henry George

For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.