Inspirational Quotes on Honesty

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.”

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

“Cheat me in the price but not in the goods.”

“Por lo demás, hermanos, todo lo que es verdadero, todo lo honesto, todo lo justo, todo lo puro, todo lo amable, todo lo que es de buen nombre; si hay virtud alguna, si algo digno de alabanza, en esto pensad”

“I have undergone too much, my friend, to feel pride or squeamishness now. Except - added Nicholas, hastily, after a short silence - except such squeamishness as is common honesty, and so much pride as constitutes self-respect.”

“An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“When you pretend you don’t feel hurt or angry or devastated, you’re not fooling God. Be honest! Don’t misunderstand; I am not encouraging you to be angry at God or to blame him. He deserves no blame. Rather, I am encouraging you to honestly confess to God your feelings of hurt, resentment, and anger. Often we look at suffering from our perspective and forget that God sees from another vantage point.”

“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.”

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

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

“My best room, however, my withdrawing room, always ready for company, on whose carpet the sun rarely fell, was the pine wood behind my house. Thither in summer days, when distinguished guests came, I took them, and a priceless domestic swept the floor and dusted the furniture and kept the things in order.”