Honesty Quotes

A man without enemies is a dishonest man.

~ Daniel J. Rice

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~ Dorothy L. Sayers

When truth and honesty is successfully intertwined into the business world of a nation, the result is a boost in commerce.

~ Sunday Adelaja

In a sense, discouragement does not have to exist. Allow it to be rather the encouragement to honestly reconsider all the options, then, as necessary, shine on.

~ Criss Jami

Spark the dreams you have with integrity and honesty. It’s gonna catch up with excellence if you make it revive in truthfulness in the midst of this world of falsehood!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Defend your leadership roles with your true character. Never attack your own aspirations with corruption and unfaithfulness! Keep calm and be honest!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Integrity involves the ability to stand straight when you tell your truth, and still stand straight when the other person comes to talk!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The truth may roar, but it's roaring does not terrify the blameless. Guilty conscience needs neither a critic nor an accuser. Remember, the truth has no aiding crutches; once it is limping, its name is a lie'.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Maintain your integrity! Live life in such a way that when another person tells his or her truth, you'll not be committed for blame.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

To maintain your integrity, be a person who does not violate the principles of the truth. Vote for truth even if you have to vote alone; believe it your vote will not be lost!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You may work with 100% capacity every day and may not be seen by anybody for recommendation. This does not mean you should give up! The day you will decide to work at 40% may be the day you'll be seen by the person who is meant to recommend you for higher profile opportunities!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If I am to choose between integrity and wealth, I will go for integrity because I believe that lack of integrity is the first killer of wealthiest dreams!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You cannot climb up to a true leadership position unless you use the ladder of integrity!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you lose your integrity, you will also lose your identity, your sensitivity and your dignity. Integrity is honesty, modesty and security in all kinds of weather. It should be our priority!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

She laughs an honest laugh... one that puts the fakes on edge and makes them dream of being better.

~ C. Joybell C.

Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does.

~ Karl Germain

Christmas embodies everything that I need. However, everything that I need is often made up of a lot of stuff I don’t want.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I would like to say that I’m sacrificial. But am I sacrificial enough to acknowledge the fact that I’m not?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Pop stars AREN'T cool. Cheating on your husband or your wife isn't cool. Having no modesty with your body and no self-respect is NOT cool. It doesn't matter how pretty someone's voice is, or if they SAY they are Christian, God calls us to modesty and faithfulness, so we need to be careful to not idolize anyone that goes way off of what God wants.

~ Lisa Bedrick

No one is perfect. We all need a Savior. The more honest we become about our flaws, the more we'll reach out for the grace and love of Jesus.

~ Alisa Hope Wagner

Never give up and never give in. The truth always finds a way to be told.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When we take into consideration the needs of both ourselves and others, we communicate honestly, compassionately and effectively.

~ Aletheia Luna

Despite your best efforts, not everyone wants to be helped. Make a difference where you can and be at peace with the rest.

~ Gary Hopkins

Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.

~ Mario Cuomo

Lead with honesty, total integrity, compassion, patience and tolerance — toward yourself!

~ Bryant Mcgill

We have come to a point in time where using common sense, speaking factual truths and asking honest questions have been deemed radical behavior. While in turn, manipulation, thoughtlessness and dishonesty is often rewarded and rules the day.

~ Gary Hopkins

Be a gift, a light, a blessing as far as the eye can see to answer a call as well as a genuine, compassionate heart can reach.

~ Angelica Hopes

Three of the ten principles governing the City of Joy are (a) tell the truth, (b) stop waiting to be rescued, and (c) give away what you want the most.

~ Eve Ensler

You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.

~ Anne Lamott

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.

~ Anne Lamott

A yogi is much more disciplined in his speech. Yogic tradition has it that speech must pass before three barriers prior to being uttered aloud. These barriers come in the form of three questions: Is it kind? Is it true? Is it necessary? (112-113)

~ Prem Prakash

A true friend does not make you win by making you the winner to the detriment of the true winner. He makes sure that you become a loser, not because he likes the way you fail, but to enlighten you on how it feels to be treated that way and to demonstrate that love and respect are not exclusive.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

So by keeping her word, Frieda B. made amends. And the two who'd been strangers became best of friends.

~ Renata Bowers

Don’t try to please others at the expense of your values and your integrity. At the end of the day, you want to like yourself when you look in a mirror.

~ Millen Livis

Understand your driving force, whether you're operating out of fear or love. When we operate in fear, we tend to hold back and not get the most from life. When we operate in love, we open new avenues and experience life more abundantly.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

The world was in terrible shape, and I'm glad we stood up and said what we believed; but a lot of the time we'd say these beautiful things about justice and fairness and equality, but we weren't so nice to each other. We'd be jealous and we'd gossip, and we'd be moody and difficult and rude and inconsiderate. Why do I say 'we'? I mean I would be all that-- and if at the time I ever came near to knowing what I'd become, I'd dodge, I'd duck, I'd go on the offensive: the terrible Wall Street bankers. Lots of them were terrible-- and so were lots of us.

~ Dorothy Day

To be honest, to be kind - to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation - above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself - here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy. He has an ambitious soul who would ask more; he has a hopeful spirit who should look in such an enterprise to be successful.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic.

~ S.a. Tawks

Honesty requires that we communicate our thoughts and feelings, not our conclusions.

~ Stefan Molyneux