Quotes about Honesty

If you can't compete fairly, honestly, effectively, no government should intervene. Now, some governments do. They prop up failing industries.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

What was it? Why won't you tell me? I don't want to break down your illusions. My dear man, I have no illusions about you. I mean illusions about yourself.

You said a bad driver is only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to make such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person. I thought it was your secret pride.

Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's called ingenuousness.

If you write me letters, please let them be natural ones. 

I'm thirty,' I said. 'I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.

When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.

There are a few blacks who have the courage to speak honestly about immorality within the black culture, and whites should work with them to help unite the races with truth.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.