An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. — William Hazlitt
The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy. — Robert E. Lee
You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him. — Confucius
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. — Thomas Carlyle
Show me a man with one friend and I’ll see a man who’s honest. — Andrew Tate
Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for. — Johnny Depp
Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself. — William Shakespeare
A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance. — John Harington
Short Honest Man Quotes
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live. — Socrates
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. — Mark Twain
A few honest men are better than numbers. — Oliver Cromwell
An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought. — W. J. Cameron
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess. — Josh Billings
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. — Simon Cameron
I’d say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being. — Logan Lerman
Honesty: The best of all the lost arts. — Mark Twain
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man. — Napoleon Bonaparte
No legacy is so rich as honesty. — William Shakespeare
Top 10 Honest Man Quotes
An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation. — Bertrand Russell
Young man: Be honest; train yourself for useful work; love God. — Milton S. Hershey
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. — George Washington
A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
All bulls*** aside now it's time to be honest, I fear no man for death is all that's promised. — 50 Cent
Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap. — L. Ron Hubbard
It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. — Thomas Sowell
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better. — Henry Ward Beecher
The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful. — Plato
Honest Man Image Quotes
Do not correct a fool or he will hate you. Correct a wise man and he will appreciate you.
Good Honest Man Quotes
Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed - while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end. — Vasily Grossman
Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God! — Victor Hugo
And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood. — John Sergeant Wise
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed. — Clare Boothe Luce
The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer. — Johnny Cash
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
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute. The man who does not ask, is a fool for life.
A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men? — Abigail Adams
I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW. — Elbert Hubbard
Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days. — Irving Stone
Real Honest Man Quotes
Speaking as an actress, I wish all actors would be more like Duke Wayne. And speaking as a person, it would be nice if all people could be honest and as genuine as he is. This is a real man. — Maureen O'Hara
What [Louis Armstrong] does is real, and true, and honest, and simple, and even noble. Every time this man puts his trumpet to his lips, even if only to practice three notes, he does it with his whole soul. — Leonard Bernstein
I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could. — Robert Sheckley
Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.
But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33) — Milan Kundera
I have always deeply desired to be an honest man who said it when I struggled, stumbled and worried. I longed to be a man with real friends - friends who knew me at my worst and loved me. — Matt Chandler
I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience. — Oliver Stone
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.
What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story. — Jim Bishop
Honest Woman Quotes
I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never urinate at the Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober. — Ozzy Osbourne
There is no honest woman with an uncorrupted heart whom a man is not sure of conquering by dint of gratitude. It is one of the surest and shortest means. — Giacomo Casanova
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet.
Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother? — J. K. Rowling
When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally. — Brennan Manning
I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches. — Ida B. Wells
Words of comfort skillfully administered are the oldest therapy known to man.
Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need to be as little chaste as pagans thought men need be. — G. E. M. Anscombe
I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters. — Al Pacino
And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer. — Esther Dyson
The demi-monde does not represent the crowd of courtesans, but the class of declassed women It is divided from that of honest women by public scandal, and divided from that of the courtesans by money. — Marlene Dumas
Honest Person Quotes
I think, being emotional is this thing that people think you're not strong. They don't look at you as a strong person, and it's weird 'cuz honestly being emotional has nothing to do with your strength. — Melanie Martinez
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take off all the masks, manners, fancy clothes, all the devices you use, and be the most honest person you can be with yourself. Then, whatever love you get then is real. All the false approaches, like trying to be a player, only bring false results. — Jacque Fresco
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person. — Audrey Hepburn
It's always been difficult to make a good record. To be perfectly honest with you, it's really about the person that's pushing the buttons. No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record. — Dr. Dre
I think it's my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally. To be honest, I welcome those hardships. — Hope Solo
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first. — Chanakya
To move forward in life, it's always helpful to honestly acknowledge where you are right now, rather than where you used to be or aspire to be in the future. — Rangan Chatterjee
Honestly, I got my first brand deal for $10,000 and I gave it away. I got it, went outside and gave it to a homeless person. I don't want to play it up too much. It just felt good. — MrBeast
There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest. — Katherine Heigl
Honest People Quotes
No matter what I say, honestly, people would only judge me the way they want to. — Kim Jong-hyun
I want to make my own path and leave behind a good legacy for myself and honestly, I just want to be innovative and always down for other people. That's what I want to be remembered by. I want to inspire. — ASAP Rocky
No success or achievement in material terms is worthwhile unless it serves the needs or interests of the country and its people and is achieved by fair and honest means. — J. R. D. Tata
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
I can't imagine anything worse than trying to impress a girl with dinner. To be honest, I'm always impressing myself, not other people. — Marco Pierre White
People of integrity and honesty not only practice what they preach, they are what they preach. — David A. Bednar
I am more convinced everyday that without a single exception I did right. And I have always believed that, as I have acted honestly, the time will come when the people of Canada will see and acknowledge it. — Louis Riel
If you want to test a man’s character give him power.
I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance. — Frank Zappa
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation. — Dale Carnegie
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Only a handful of people are honest when they sing. A lot of people sing about very vague things, or they'll sing about someone breaking up with them, but a lot of people don't go too deep into their past and stuff, because they don't want it to be let out. I just do it anyway. — Ronnie Radke
Honorable Man Quotes
All you got in life is your honor, man, your own self-image, your own self-respect. If you lose that, or if you give it away or if you sell it, then you ain't got it no more. — Lemmy Kilmister
When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Integrity is the value we set on ourselves. It is a fulfillment of the duty we owe ourselves. An honorable man or woman will personally commit to live up to certain self-imposed expectations. They need no outside check or control. They are honorable in their inner core. — James E. Faust
Nikah is a contract that transfers responsibilities. Therefore know the man you're thinking of marrying, and be sure that he is able to take care of you, more than your dad did. Islam empowers women with honor and dignity. Don't settle for anything less. — Nouman Ali Khan
There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I've honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher. — Pat Conroy
Keep honoring God with your life, stay in peace, trust His timing and God will open doors that no man can shut. — Joel Osteen
The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. — Clark Gable
Be industrious, let thine eyes be open, lest you become a beggar, for the man that is idle cometh not to honor. — Egyptian Proverbs
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart. — Moliere
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. — Ben Jonson
Honesty Quotes
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth. — William Faulkner
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones — John Lennon
Do the right thing because it is right. — Immanuel Kant
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. — Franz Kafka
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded. — Baron de Montesquieu
I'm not a handsome guy, but I can give my hand to someone who needs help. Beauty is in the heart, not in the face. — Abdul Kalam
Integrity gives you real freedom because you have nothing to fear since you have nothing to hide. — Zig Ziglar
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. — Ernest Hemingway
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. — Albert Einstein
The holy spirit means the invisible power of Jehovah, holy because he is holy. This power of Jehovah operated upon the minds of honest men who loved and who were devoted to righteousness, directing them in the writing of the Bible. — Joseph Franklin Rutherford
people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue. — John Hancock
I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks. I see people depressed and I see people who devalue themselves and I feel that's a terrible, terrible waste. But I love the people who try. But try fairly, try honestly. — Jack Kirby
A lot of people say if they could go back in time they would not change anything. But, to be honest with you, I like it and I don't like it. I like the fact that all I went through as a youngster made me a great man, but just goin' through what I went through - I wouldn't wanna go through that again. I wouldn't wish that on nobody. — Gucci Mane
We want the full works of citizenship with no reservations. We will accept nothing less . . . This condition of freedom, equality, and democracy is not the gift of gods. It is the task of men, yes, men, brave men, honest men, determined men. — A. Philip Randolph
Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and industrious man should live and die in misery. He was entitled to some degree of sympathy and security. Our conscience declared against the honest workman's becoming a pauper, but our eyes told us that he very often did. — Frances Perkins
What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned. — Claud Cockburn
No one can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes. — Gene Hill
When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means of life, it appears as if men had deliberately chosen the common mode of living because they preferred it to any other. Yet they honestly think there is no choice left. — Henry David Thoreau
The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart). — Manny Farber
My experience has proved that a man who is running for office, and is not willing to make his honest opinions known to the public, either has no honest opinions or is not honest about them. — William Randolph Hearst
We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world leads through honest reconciliation of the conflicting interests and not through hatred and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance the moral power of the all-embracing idea of human solidarity. — Lech Walesa
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief. — Edmund Burke
Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies. — Mark Twain
I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition. — Joseph Haydn
I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me. — Drake
They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat. — Charles Dickens
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