29 Quotes About Honesty

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain.

An honest heart is open to the Word.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty.

Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.

What Jesus emphasized in His teaching (in Matthew 5:33-37) was that honest men do not need to resort to oaths; it was not that they should refuse to take an oath if required by some external authority to do so.

Faith need not be 'big' but it must be 'real.'

There are many things in which one and the other loses; but if it is essential to any transaction that only one side shall gain, the thing is not of God.

He that resolves to deal with none but honest men, must leave off dealing.

If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be: if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all.

An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.

If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.

Thou oughtest to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

The frequent requiring and using of oaths, is a poor reflection on Christians, who should be of such acknowledged fidelity, as that their sober words should be as sacred as their solemn oaths.

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.

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile, some have a sad expression, some are pensive and diffident, others again are plain, honest and upright.

Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straightforwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferiors, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods.

I could have anything I wanted and if I didn't have it, it was because I didn't want it.

The worse men are, the less they are bound by oaths; the better they are, the less there is need for them. Our Lord does not enjoin the precise terms wherein we are to affirm or deny, but such a constant regard to truth as would render oaths unnecessary.

I'm not condemning people. God's going to do that. I just want to be honest with people. I just want to tell them the truth. ... People don't want to know what I have to say. They want to know what God has to say.

Honest policy is a good friend, both to our safety and to our usefulness. The serpent's head may well become a good Christian's body, especially if it have a dove's eye in it.

An honest heart loves the Truth.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

I could never draw the line between meanness and dishonesty. What is mean, so far as I can see, slides by indistinguishable gradations into what is dishonest.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

He that's cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater.

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

An honest heart seeks to please God in all things and offend Him in none.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.