Top 42 Virtue Of Honesty Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.
Czeslaw Milosz
#4. You know, what a producer does is one of the great mysteries in life, so anyone can be one.
Timothy Olyphant
#5. Integrity is never a given. It is a quality that can only be proven over time.
Gary Hopkins
#6. 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
#7. Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
Gertrude Stein
#8. Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#9. 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
#10. Avarice cripples virtue and lies in ambush for honesty. My
Maya Angelou
#11. 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
#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. 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
#16. We have to prepare our cities for the increasing scarcity of resources by increasing their density and energy efficiency.
Mathis Wackernagel
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. How many happy people do you think there are in the world? Twelve?
Daniel Handler
#20. Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.
Criss Jami
#21. There's something universal about illness ... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'
Abraham Verghese
#22. The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.
Stefan Molyneux
#24. The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Plutarch
#25. The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive.
Ted Malloch
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#32. My first job is to say thank you to those who voted me. Those who didn't, I'm going to get your vote next time.
Barack Obama
#33. But the nice man had cold eyes. When interacting with his fascinated lady-harem, they had been blue. But when he turned his attention to me - however briefly - I could have sworn that they turned gray, the color of water beneath a sky from which snow will soon fall.
Stephen King
#34. As much as I like to be thoughtful and think things through in my decision making - I don't like knee jerk decisions - but I'm not afraid to make decisions.
Ron Jaworski
#35. 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
#36. You are ill, correct? The warmth and shivering had no other particular cause, did it?"
"Not only am I ill, I am sure I am contagious.
Madeline Hunter
#37. Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.
Tupac Shakur
#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. I think a lot of people in America do not understand that the basis of true liberty can't happen without an objective moral standard by which we live our lives.
Mike Huckabee
#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. 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
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