Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marvin J. Ashton

One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.

Marvin J. Ashton

Lying damages others. Lying subtly permits us to destroy ourselves as we are caught in the snare and shatter our own self-image and credibility. Freedom from deceit and lying improves self and gives all of us peace of mind.

Mark Twain

The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

Nicholas Sparks

Because everybody lies. It's part of living in society. Don't get me wrong-I think it's necessary. The last thing anyone wants is to live in a society where total honesty prevails. Can you imagine the conversations? You're short and fat, one person might say, and the other might answer, I know. But you smell bad. It just wouldn't work. So people lie by omission all the time. People will tell you most of the story...and I've learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they're afraid." -Jo

Neal A. Maxwell

Looking for honest ways to lift one another would . . . be more beneficial to our own self-esteem, for we would see more good in ourselves. We would cease to be so critical of our weaknesses and would find ways to allow our weaknesses to become strengths with God's help.

Oscar Wilde

A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

Madonna Ciccone

You bring me to my knees, while I'm scratching out the eyes of a world I want to conquer, and deliver, and despise. And right while I am kneeling there, I suddenly begin to care. And understand that there could be a person that loves me.

Madonna Ciccone

Looking at my life, it's very clear to me, I lived so selfishly.

Madonna Ciccone

At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say, 'Right on!

Ma Ying-jeou

People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

Lyle Lovett

Man, I need to impress her, cause I'd like to undress her.

Lorrie Moore

Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce

Michael Jackson

Be careful what you do, because the lie becomes the truth.

Michel de Montaigne

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

Michel de Montaigne

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

Michel de Montaigne

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature

Michel de Montaigne

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

Michel de Montaigne

Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy

Mark Twain

Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

Marianne Williamson

The love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion.

Mikhail Bakunin

But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.

Mark Hopkins

Christianity excludes malignity, subdues selfishness, regulates the passions, subordinates the appetites, quickens the intellect, exalts the affections. It promotes industry, honesty, truth, purity, kindness. It humbles the proud, exalts the lowly, upholds law, favors liberty, is essential to it, and would unite men in one great brotherhood. It is the breath of life to social and civil well-being here, and spreads the azure of that heaven into whose unfathomed depths the eye if faith loves to look.

Mikhail Bakunin

In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners.

Trust, honesty, humility, transparency and accountability are the building blocks of a positive reputation. Trust is the foundation of any relationship.

R. D. Laing

The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.

Publilius Syrus

It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.

Publilius Syrus

It is better to learn late than never.

Nelson Mandela

Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

Nelson Mandela

People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, generosity and an absence of variety. You learn to look into yourself.

Kinky Friedman

People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it.

Oprah Winfrey

Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth.

Olivia Munn

If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]