Quotes about Honesty
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you are saying.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay
— Ralph Waldo Emerson