Quotes about Honesty
An honest answer is like a kiss of friendship.
— Proverbs 24:26
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
— Henry David Thoreau
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
— St. Jerome
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship
— Henry Ward Beecher
Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.
— Dale Carnegie
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular a.. that does so whom we can't tolerate
— William James
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
— E Stanley Jones
Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
— Carl Jung
As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.
— Samuel Johnson
To own up to one's lack of courage and shortcoming without excuses is courage.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
— Samuel Johnson