Quotes About Honesty And Virtue

#1. There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

Richard Steele

#2. If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity, be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#3. The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Plutarch

#4. Hope flickered in my chest. 'Do you think they'll stop this... zombie-apocalypse-in-the-making if they realize I'm back on Team Not-Insane?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#5. I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents.

Marian Wright Edelman

#6. Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.

Gertrude Stein

#7. Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost.

Sena Jeter Naslund

#8. Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.

J. William Schickel

#9. Avarice cripples virtue and lies in ambush for honesty. My

Maya Angelou

#10. Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation notably lacking in civility, there is much to be said for nice.

Molly Ivins

#11. When we ponder His voluntary atonement, any sense of sacrifice on our part becomes completely overshadowed by a profound sense of gratitude for the privilege of serving Him.

Russell M. Nelson

#12. I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.

Martin Sheen

#13. Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

Jonathan Swift

#14. The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#16. It is praiseworth to be open and honest, but you must be very discriminating on where and with whom you apply that most sacred virtue.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#17. It is impossible not to notice how little the proponents of the ideal of competition have to say about honesty, which is the fundamental economic virtue, and how very little they have to say about community, compassion, and mutual help.

Wendell Berry

#18. The happiness of America is intimately connected with the happiness of all mankind; she is destined to become the safe and venerable asylum of virtue, of honesty, of tolerance, and quality and of peaceful liberty.

Marquis De Lafayette

#19. If you haven't taken a writing class, take a writing class. I took every class that was available in my area. I went to conferences inside and outside my area to network with people. That's how I got my agent. I found my agent through another agent who was at a conference.

Kimberly Willis Holt

#20. Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.

Criss Jami

#21. Home's the most excellent place of all.

Neil Diamond

#22. Perhaps the universe is a big fat consciousness and the matter is just an illusion.

Erol Ozan

#23. The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.

Stefan Molyneux

#24. Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows.

Octavio Paz

#25. Find the joy in your everyday situations. You have the choice, you always did and you will always do. Thrive.

Ana Ortega

#26. The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive.

Ted Malloch

#27. L'homme qui a un peu use ses e motions est plus presse de plaire que d'aimer. The person who has used his emotions even a little is more anxious to please than to love.

Sydney Samuelson

#28. It is the memory of past happiness that makes the present so intolerable.

Fay Weldon

#29. Sincerity is a Christian virtue, as is honesty about our struggles. But my generation needs to realize that Christianity is more than chic fragility, endless self-revelation, and the coolness that comes with authenticity.

Kevin DeYoung

#30. Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common
to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

John McCain

#31. 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

#32. Honesty is not a virtue, it is a luxury. Most, who struggle to put bread on the table, face this question every day. And hunger wins this game almost every time, beta (son).

Prashant Chopra

#33. There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.

George Vecsey

#34. The piety, the gentleness, the honesty, the sensitivity, all the qualities she has learned to admire in herself, are invitations to violence; all her life, she has been groomed for the slaughterhouse. And though she is virtuous, she does not know how to do good.

Angela Carter

#35. 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

#36. Take it from me because I learned the hard way: circumcisions are best left to professionals.

Mark Hoppus

#37. Is poverty of spirit the chief amongst virtues, that Jesus gives it prime place in his teachings? Is it even a virtue at all? Surely not. Manliness of spirit, honesty of spirit, fullness of rightful purpose, these are virtues; poverty of spirit is a crime.

Charles Bradlaugh

#38. Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#39. 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

#40. I love the creating part of taking on a character. It is fun to be another person and create what it would be like to be that person.

Jason Dohring

#41. 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

#42. In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.

Czeslaw Milosz

#43. Integrity is never a given. It is a quality that can only be proven over time.

Gary Hopkins