Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Peguy

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors

Charles Peguy

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Dennis Prager

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

Dan Ariely

Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.

B. C. Forbes

Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.

B. C. Forbes

Honesty is the cornerstone of character.

Arthur Helps

There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her sentiments and manifesting his or her feelings, however unfit the time, however inappropriate the place, however painful this expression may be, lays claim, forsooth, to our approbation as an honest person, and sneers at those of finer sensibilities as hypocrites.

Armistead Maupin

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

Antonio Banderas

Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

Austin Peck

Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.

About a veteran player thrown out trying to steal second: There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.

Benjamin Graham

Before you place your financial future in the hands of an adviser, it's imperative that you find someone who not only makes you comfortable but whose honesty is beyond reproach.

Britney Spears

You think I'm in love, that I'm sent from above, I'm not that innocent.

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.

Arthur Miller

No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.

Azim Premji

In our way of working, we attach a great deal of importance to humility and honesty; With respect for human values, we promise to serve our customers with integrity.

Azar Nafisi

She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

Ayelet Waldman

I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).

Ayn Rand

There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve--Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living. These three values imply and require all of man's virtues, and all his virtues pertain to the relation of existence and consciousness: rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness, pride.

Aristotle

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.

Ben Jonson

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.

Ben Jonson

He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.

Ed McMahon

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

Earl Nightingale

If honesty did not exist, it would have to be invented, as it is the surest way of getting rich.

Dito Montiel

You want to be entertaining to some degree. But honesty is always entertaining to me.

Abdul Kalam

I'm not a handsome guy, but I can give my hand to someone who needs help. Beauty is in the heart, not in the face.

Samuel Butler

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary clothes, so that nothing be lacking to honesty and necessity, yet nothing be added to increase its beauty.

Adam Clayton

There is no future for a people who deny their past.

Plato

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Alexander Siddig

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.

Alexander Hamilton

Our great error is that we suppose mankind to be more honest than they are.