Honesty Is Quotes

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson

Wisdom, Book, Honesty

Honesty is the best policy.
Benjamin Franklin

Best, Honesty, Policy

I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.
Summer Altice

Respect, Loyalty, Honesty

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
Mark Twain

Money, Best, Honesty

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.
Lao Tzu

Good, Honesty, Honest

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
George Bernard Shaw

Best, Children, Honesty

Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.
Dave Van Ronk

Time, Hurt, Someone

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
Plato

Honesty, Less, Dishonesty

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
Robert E. Lee

Best, Saying, Real

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Josh Billings

Honesty, Anyone, Wealth

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.
Michel de Montaigne

Confidence, Integrity, Honesty

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John Ruskin

Education, Children, Honesty

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.
Harvey S. Firestone

Business, Honesty, Keystone

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Mary Kay Ash

Success, Confidence, Honesty

Honesty is something you can't wear out.
Waylon Jennings

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
George Bancroft

God, Possible, Himself

Honesty is very sexy.
Valerie Bertinelli

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls... that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.
Michelle Obama

Job, Honesty, Universe

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.
Lemuel K. Washburn

Honesty, Seen, Sitting

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
Ed McMahon

Success, Important, Single

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
Charles Baudelaire

Honesty, Financial, Merchant

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.
Brooke Shields

Friend, Honesty, Compassion

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
Stephen Vincent Benet

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
Gerald R. Ford

Best, End, Confidence

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
Don Marquis

Good, Honesty, Control

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
Anthony Trollope

Political, Honesty, Become

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
Richard Whately

Best, Honesty, Honest

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
Margaret Fuller

Life, Politics, Best

Party honesty is party expediency.
Grover Cleveland

Honesty, Party, Expediency

Even if you know that what you'll say will hurt a woman's feelings, I've learned that it's better to be truthful with her than it is to cover up. Ultimate honesty is what a relationship is really about.
Stephen Moyer

Hurt, Woman, Feelings

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