Quotes about Honesty

Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out.

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, for your character is what you are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Truth is important, but truth at the cost of loving relationships is not Christianity. And relationships that ignore truth will lose integrity sooner or later.

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

If children are expected to be honest, parents must be honest. If children are expected to be virtuous, parents must be virtuous. If you expect your children to be honorable, you must be honorable.

Rightly felt anger that's never expressed. You're angry, but you pretend everything's fine. You stuff your anger. You never speak about it. You never address the truth of your feelings. Repressing anger can be one of the most destructive things you can do. It poses a huge health risk. Not to mention you're living a lie.

He was utterly incapable of resisting the maneuvers of the mealy-mouthed scoundrel that the Neapolitan Vincentian, Bugnini,77 a man as bereft of culture as he was of basic honesty, soon revealed himself to be. Even

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say let speech harmonize with life.

It is much better to tell the truth than to compromise truth and have someone believe a lie. It is far better they hear the truth now than that they believe they can keep other idols in their life—and then one day, when it's too late, shockingly hear the Master say, "Depart; I never knew you, you who were deceived!