Top 100 Man Honesty Quotes
#1. Honesty is the great essential. It exalts the individual citizenship, and, without honesty, no man deserves the confidence of the people in private pursuit or in public office.
Warren G. Harding
#2. The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Francis Bacon
#3. I am an honest man by nature, but as I live in society I try not to arouse anyone's resentment and sometimes I am compelled to lie in this endeavour. As soon as honesty becomes compatible with daily social life, I will stop telling such lies.
Soseki Natsume
#4. An honest man is always a child.
[Lat., Semper bonus homo tiro est.]
Martial
#5. A wise man thus seeks not a straight path, but one that is the shortest or most convenient. The idea is to reach your goal comfortably and quickly rather than wasting your time in finding 'Which is the straightest path?
Awdhesh Singh
#8. Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.- Lucullus (Act III, scene 1)
William Shakespeare
#10. You are an honest and honorable man, Lord Eddard. Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life." He glanced around the cell. "When I see what honesty and honor have won you, I understand why.
George R R Martin
#11. How frequently is the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or shrug! How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped With the imputation of proceeding from bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!
Laurence Sterne
#13. A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
John Lubbock
#14. Gandhi once said, "There are 999 who believe in honesty for every honest man.
Cameron C. Taylor
#15. No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.
Mark Twain
#16. You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him.
Confucius
#17. God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification
Michel De Montaigne
#18. A man who is strong and tough never needs to show it in his dress or the way he cuts his hair. Toughness is a quality of the mind, like bravery or honesty or ambition; it has nothing whatever to do with muscles.
E.R. Braithwaite
#19. Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.
Mark Twain
#20. THE MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA(1929) the 'honesty' of documentary as compared with fiction film, the 'perfection' of the cinematic eye compared with human eye.
Steven Jay Schneider
#21. Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the rule he knows and feels to be right.
Samuel Smiles
#22. I am. I'm rude because I don't conform to society's standards that white lies are inconsequential. I don't believe in hiding behind words that aren't truthful. I'm an impatient man. I don't beat around the bush. If you ask me something, I won't lie to you.
Whitney Barbetti
#23. Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?
C.S. Lewis
#24. A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.
Criss Jami
#25. Of course, old man, I only saw the kid once, and then only for a moment, but - but it was an ugly sort of kid, wasn't it, if I remember rightly?'
'As ugly as that? '
I looked again, and honesty compelled me to be frank.
'I don't see how it could have been, old chap.
P.G. Wodehouse
#26. Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?'
The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.
Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.'
Didn't you mean them?'
At the moment.
W. Somerset Maugham
#27. Scripture paints men as they really are, hiding none of their blemishes or barbaric ways. The honesty of scripture is one of the reasons I knew that the Bible would be the place to go to learn what a real man should be and do.
Dennis Rainey
#28. For time alone shews a man's honesty,
But in one day you may discern his guilt.
Sophocles
#29. Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#30. The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.
David Halberstam
#31. Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#32. The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm
Sylvia Plath
#34. Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion.
Henry David Thoreau
#35. For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.
Mike Norton
#36. Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
Richard Whately
#37. When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.
William Shenstone
#38. A man may be accomplished in art, literature, and science, and yet, in honesty, virtue, truthfulness, and the spirit of duty, be entitled to take rank after many a poor and illiterate peasant.
Samuel Smiles
#39. A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#40. The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things.
Erich Fromm
#41. For there is no virtue, the honor and credit for which procures a man more odium than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people.
Plutarch
#42. He was utterly incapable of resisting the maneuvers of the mealy-mouthed scoundrel that the Neapolitan Vincentian, Bugnini,77 a man as bereft of culture as he was of basic honesty, soon revealed himself to be. Even
Louis Bouyer
#43. This is my thesis: Do you know what is needful to turn an honest man into a rogue! A change of scene
a moment's forgetfulness suffice.
Andre Gide
#44. The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
Ben Jonson
#45. A good man will find that there is goodness in the world; an honest man will find that there is honesty in the world; and a man of principle will find principle and integrity in the hearts
of others.
Albert Pike
#46. When a man talks from the heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.
Ray Bradbury
#48. That absolute pure honesty of the horse, man that's just the greatest thing there is
Buck Brannaman
#49. When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.
G.K. Chesterton
#50. Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
For what every man wishes,
that he also believes to be true.
Demosthenes
#51. The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.
William Shenstone
#52. Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.
Junius
#53. I lie without a mask, thus I am an honest man.
Lionel Suggs
#54. No honest man will argue on every side
Sophocles
#55. Let's stop and think for a moment. Is sacrifice a virtue? Can a man sacrifice his integrity? His honor? His freedom? His ideal? His convictions? The honesty of his feeling? The independence of his thought?
Ayn Rand
#56. A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. Let us be like the man of the frontier and always reveal with utmost honesty our real reasons for all that we do.
J. P. Morgan
#57. EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.
Ambrose Bierce
#58. Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence.
Robert Breault
#59. She said she married an architect, who kept her warm and safe and dry. She would like to say she loved the man, but she didn't like to lie.
Dan Fogelberg
#60. I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like; it is terrifying.
Abel Hermant
#61. Fire is the spirit of candle and honesty is the spirit of man. Without spirit, there shall be no light but darkness
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#62. If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#63. My father had a very simple view of life: you don't get anything for nothing. Everything has to be earned, through work, persistence and honesty. My father also had a deep charm, the gift of winning our trust. He was the kind of man with whom many people dream of spending an evening.
Grace Kelly
#64. We all practice self-deception to a degree; no man can handle complete honesty without being cut at each turn. There's not enough room in a man's head for sanity alongside each grief, each worry, each terror that he owns. I'm well used to burying such things in a dark cellar and moving on.
Mark Lawrence
#65. And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
William Faulkner
#66. A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.
Samuel Johnson
#67. Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer ... or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded
the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original]
Chuck Palahniuk
#68. The minister was an honest man so far as he knew himself and honesty, and did not relish this form of submission. But he did not ask himself where was the difference between accepting the word of man and accepting man's explanation of the word of God!
George MacDonald
#69. Motivational Quotes on: Honesty, Success, Kind
There was a tremendous modesty in the man as he spoke, a quietness and dignity. There was a simplicity and honesty and unselfconsciousness, and a tremendous peace.
Walter Russell
#70. It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence.
Theodore Roosevelt
#71. Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.
Benjamin Disraeli
#72. The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.
James Jones
#73. To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
William Shakespeare
#74. People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones' good fortune ... and at bottom it is always man himself that stands in his own way.
Soren Kierkegaard
#75. The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
Arthur C. Clarke
#76. A man who preserves his integrity no real, long-lasting harm can ever come.
Socrates
#77. Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one's consciousness can permit the faking of existence.
Ayn Rand
#78. A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.
Michel De Montaigne
#79. What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good intentions what paves the road to hell: it's self-justifyin's.
David Mitchell
#80. Men must be honest with themselves before they can be honest with others. A man who is not honest with himself presents a hopeless case.
William J.H. Boetcker
#82. Who is the honest man?
He that doth still and strongly good pursue
To God, his neighbor, and himself most true:
Whom neither force nor fawning can
Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due.
George Herbert
#83. But I respected his instincts as a killer and I liked the honesty of the man. And who was I to judge? I'd F'ed a necromancer and killed a Pope within the space of a week.
Mark Lawrence
#84. If you want to take the meaning of the word integrity and reduce it to its simplest terms, you'd conclude that a man of integrity is a promise keeper. When he gives you his word. You can take it to the bank. His word is good.
Bill McCartney
#85. It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
Confucius
#86. The measure of a man is determined by how he responds to the truth of God.
Dr. J. Otis Yoder
#88. Unfortunately in today's world a liar seems to be more reliable than a truthful honest man.
Munia Khan
#89. Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
William Shakespeare
#90. I am as impressed by honesty as anyone, but when there is a hint that a man is taking me into his confidence, my first instinct is to suspect him. Am I to be flattered? And is he about to break another's confidence?
Zia Haider Rahman
#91. No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
Viktor E. Frankl
#92. The man who believes that honesty is the best policy is not an honest man.
Paul Hoffman
#93. If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.
Henry Ward Beecher
#94. He comes.
And he comes
loaded
with noise pollution.
If I ever prayed for anything,
it was for a man
to shut up.
Casey Renee Kiser
#95. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Truthful man:
He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy.
Idries Shah
#96. The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn. The less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything ...
Robert G. Ingersoll
#97. No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.
J. Lawton Collins
#98. I will blame no enemy that is a good man, nor yet praise a friend that is bad
Theognis
#99. Curious," it said. "What you call your decent self doesn't dare look me in the eye! What a mistake people make who say that the man who won't look you in the eye is not to be trusted! As if mere brazenness were a sign of honesty; really, the theory of decency is the most amusing thing in the world.
John Kendrick Bangs
#100. The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his own corruption.
Criss Jami
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