Quotes about Honesty

I have never lost respect for any individual who replied to a question with the answer, I just don't know.

Sometime in my ministry, I am going to gather up enough courage to have a testimony time where the only thing we'll share is our failures.

It's because I want you to remember that character counts. You can be the best there ever was at something, but if you have no character, what do you have? On the other hand, if you have very little as far as accomplishments but you have character, well, then you're all right in my book.

My integrity means more to me than any fame or money. When I say something, I want people to take it to the bank that I mean it and believe in it.

Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.

No matter how hard we try to ignore it, the mind always knows truth and wants clarity.

It comforts everybody to think of all Negroes as dirt poor, and to regard those who were not, who earned good money and kept it, as some kind of shameful miracle. White people liked that idea because Negroes with money and sense made them nervous. Colored people liked it because, in those days, they trusted poverty, believed it was a virtue and a sure sign of honesty. Too much money had a whiff of evil and somebody else's blood.

Be real. Tell the truth. God can handle it.

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.

In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.