Honesty Quotes

We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.

- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

- Abraham Lincoln

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

- Abu Bakr

If you want honesty and love, you have to be honest and loving and loveable.

- Aksel Hennie

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

- Alan Arkin

We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.

- Alan Autry

You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside.

- Alan Cohen

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

- Alan Dershowitz

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

- Alan K. Simpson

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

- Albert Camus

Integrity has no need of rules.

- Albert Camus

We want to promote the great qualities of athletics - and maintain its integrity - all over the world.

- Alberto Juantorena

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

- Aldo Leopold

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.

- Alec Baldwin

Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.

- Alex Berenson

In general, sincerity is awkward.

- Alexandra Petri

Fashion moves so quickly that, unless you have a strong point of view, you can lose integrity.

- Alice Temperley

We Bosniaks would for sure fight for integrity of Bosnia.

- Alija Izetbegovic

The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.

- Amy Grant

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

- Andrew Carnegie

Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.

- Andrew Sullivan

Honesty is love.

- Andy Dunn

The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.

- Andy Williams

Fashion, which often seems to be on a path to be bigger, more Instagram-ready, can also achieve its best through sincerity.

- Anna Wintour

I've always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy.

- Annie Lennox

I am filled with so much sincerity and gratitude to know where I came from and what I'm doing now.

- Antonio Brown

There is no higher value in our society than integrity.

- Arlen Specter

Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.

- Asa Gray

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

- Ayn Rand

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

- Baltasar Gracian

And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.

- Ben E. King

Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.

- Benjamin E. Mays

Honesty is the best policy.

- Benjamin Franklin

I want my brand and Bibi Bourelly to represent honesty.

- Bibi Bourelly

I have faith in the people. Honesty will prosper.

- Bibi Bourelly

It's hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.

- Bill Delahunt

There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

- Billie Joe Armstrong

I feel honesty always works.

- Bobby Unser

People like my honesty. When I'm sane, I'm very much myself.

- Boy George

The very foundation of our democracy depends on the integrity of our elections.

- Brad Schneider

I know what I did and how I accomplished it. I am proud of it and know that it was done with integrity.

- Brady Anderson

There's an integrity and a strength to women who have been raised in rough country.

- Brenda Strong

James Stewart was so kind and considerate and had such personal integrity.

- Brigitte Bardot

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

- Brooke Shields

Honesty is all you need.

- Cass Elliot

Golf instills incredible values, including collaboration, competitiveness, and integrity.

- Cathy Engelbert

I want to say here and now, that I demand unshakable integrity of every State employee.

- Charles Edison

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

- Charles Spurgeon

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

- Chinua Achebe

I have a clean image. I want to serve the people with humility and sincerity. Politicians have made use of peoples' votes but do not care for them.

- Chiranjeevi

I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism.

- Chloe Sevigny

A sport has its own built-in integrity - doesn't need an artificial one.

- Chris Crutcher

I have to say that the most important thing Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together.

- Christopher Gorham

I never find sincerity offensive... so, be sincere.

- Christopher Meloni

On stage you can get away with a lot more in the sense of emotion and truthfulness. But the camera is the eye of God. It sees everything.

- Cindy Busby

'A Talk to Teachers' is emblematic of Baldwin's proclivity for candor over political appeasement and, like much of his work, focusses on history and the American consciousness.

- Clint Smith

Acting means nothing unless it's truth. And honesty.

- Colm Wilkinson

I can say with full sincerity that I am happy. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love and I'm not selling out.

- Columbus Short

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

- Confucius

I believe family first. Blood is thicker than water. I grew up like that, and I want to continue to keep that goal in my heart. Just family first! Just honesty, integrity, and respect. All of that. I live by the code of those things. If you do that you'll be fine.

- Cory Hardrict

Nashville used to have more integrity than just looking at the bottom line.

- Crystal Gayle

To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.

- Cyril Cusack

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

- Dalai Lama

I want to live my life moving forward with integrity and pride.

- Dan Amboyer

Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.

- Dan Ariely

Transparency is one of our core principles, We treat the food with integrity. We don't commodify it beyond recognition.

- Daniel Lubetzky

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

- Daniel Schorr

I have to say that one of the most important things Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together. I understand how people can get into unethical situations, and Scientology has always helped me keep my head clear and be in present time.

- Danny Masterson

Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.

- David A. Bednar

I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest.

- David Blunkett

My father and mother had tremendous integrity, and obviously that affected me.

- David Green

Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.

- David Koechner

Your peers will respect you for your integrity and character, not your possessions.

- David Robinson

Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless.

- David Whyte

Dishonesty, lack of integrity catches up with you.

- Dawn Steel

I'm not Mary Poppins, but I think I functioned with integrity.

- Dawn Steel

Wealth is a thing, earned with honesty and justice. Its opposite is the Mammon of unrighteousness.

- Dayananda Saraswati

In all honesty, my favorite place to write is an anonymous, cheap hotel in a city or town where nobody knows me, the wireless service is spotty, and the adjoining gas station has coffee, beer and junk food.

- Dean Bakopoulos

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

- Dean Inge

Congruence, integration, responsibility and integrity are the values that I stand for.

- Debbie Ford

It's all about humanity, humility, and integrity.

- Debra Wilson

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

- Denis Waitley

Our commitment to integrity, our commitment to diversity and inclusion, to respecting our teammates - that's what makes this business work.

- Dennis Muilenburg

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

- Don Marquis

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

- Don Marquis

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

- Donald Rumsfeld

I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit.

- Donald Trump

The integrity of the game is the umpires. Nobody else. The entire integrity of the game is the umpires.

- Doug Harvey

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

- Douglas Adams

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

- Douglas Adams

I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward G. Robinson was - and is. Surely his record for versatility, studied characterization - ranging from modern colloquial to the classics - and artistic integrity is unsurpassed.

- Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

There is no diplomacy like candor.

- E. V. Lucas

Candor is the key to collaborating effectively. Lack of candor leads to dysfunctional environments.

- Ed Catmull

In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.

- Edgar Meyer

I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.

- Edmund White

I had made my reputation on integrity.

- Edward Brooke

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.

- Edward Kennedy

Believe me, you don't want to be at a company where there is more candor in the hallways than in the rooms where fundamental ideas or policy are being hashed out.

- Edwin Catmull

I trust the integrity of the British government and the British soldiers.

- Ehud Olmert

Once you lose the honesty in a relationship, I mean, I think you don't have a relationship at all.

- Elizabeth Gillies

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

- Emily Carr

Honesty compels me to say that I am not a socialist. But so what?

- Emmanuel Macron

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

- Erik Erikson

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

- Erwin Schrodinger

Without Greece, it is not possible to preserve the integrity of the European phenomenon.

- Evangelos Venizelos

As an academic, what do you have? You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.

- Ezekiel Emanuel

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

- Ezra Pound

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.

- Frank Langella

We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches.

- Franz Boas

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

- Friedrich Schiller

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.

- Gabrielle Roy

True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

- Garth Brooks

We're concerned how gambling and betting affects the NHL game and changes the perception of and challenges the integrity of the NHL game.

- Gary Bettman

I don't worry about the integrity of the game. Our players are professionals.

- Gary Bettman

It seems to me that if God calls us to anything it's to a life of integrity.

- Gene Robinson

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

- George Burns

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

- George Eliot

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

- George Henry Lewes

Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed.

- George Henry Lewes

Sincerity is moral truth.

- George Henry Lewes

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

- George Oppen

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

- George Orwell

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

- George Saunders

I want to make it clear publicly that I expect more candor from this Administration during the next four years, particularly with members on the Foreign Relations Committee so that we can maintain a bipartisan foreign policy.

- George Voinovich

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

- Gerald R. Ford

I know that I and my office acted with the highest integrity as an independent inspector general should act.

- Gerald Walpin

But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.

- Gerrit Smith

Honesty I can take. Lies I get upset about.

- Glen Campbell

Integrity means there is not a real-life you and an internet you. The two are one and the same. If you're not kind on the Internet, you're not kind.

- Glennon Doyle Melton

Parents have no greater responsibility in this world than the bringing up of their children in the right way, and they will have no greater satisfaction as the years pass than to see those children grow in integrity and honesty and make something of their lives.

- Gordon B. Hinckley

Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor or an animator, is you try to understand the process that person has so you can get the most out of them, but I think you have to sort of manipulate that process with honesty.

- Gore Verbinski

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

- Graeme Murphy

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

- Groucho Marx

Party honesty is party expediency.

- Grover Cleveland

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

- Harvey Mackay

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

- Harvey S. Firestone

We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.

- Hattie McDaniel

We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you.

- Herb Alpert

Pixar has the integrity to not rush.

- Holly Hunter

I'm the voice of honesty.

- Howard Stern

We will make every effort with utmost sincerity to achieve a peaceful reunification of the country.

- Hu Jintao

I think it matters almost infinitely that we practice one of the authentic religions. But if you mean does it make any difference which. The answer is no, as long as each is followed with equal intensity, sincerity, dedication.

- Huston Smith

You get into this situation, performing for T.V., where you have to speak with utter sincerity. It's just like the radio. You have to say it like you mean it, even though the thing you're saying is actually planned out.

- Ira Glass

I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.

- Jack Brickhouse

I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.

- Jack Whitehall

Love and honesty are the things that make a good wife and mother.

- Jada Pinkett Smith

I care about the integrity of the game.

- Jake Arrieta

Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.

- James Altucher

Branding jails corporate America, but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.

- James Altucher

Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people.

- James Bovard

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

- James F. Cooper

The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it.

- James Marsden

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

- James Russell Lowell

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

- Jane Rule

However, I do firmly believe in maintaining the integrity of the animal.

- Janine Turner

You can protect the integrity of elections without stopping anyone from voting.

- Jason Kander

Integrity matters. What our fans think matters.

- Jay Chandrasekhar

The secret of success is sincerity.

- Jean Giraudoux

I have nothing left but my integrity.

- Jeannette Rankin

I admire honesty more than any other trait.

- Jerry Reinsdorf

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

- Jessamyn West

We try to instill a sense of fair play, a sense of honesty.

- Jesse White

Honesty has always been very important to me.

- Jessica Lynch

I'm always going for truth and honesty.

- Jill Soloway

If you truly believe something, and it's incorrect, that doesn't mean you don't have integrity.

- Jim Brown

I think a show can work anywhere if it's done honestly, with integrity, and with confidence.

- Joey McIntyre

Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.

- John Berger

My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty.

- John Cullum

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.

- John D. MacDonald

When former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote his recent book, 'Duty', it was full of tough assessments and candor.

- John Dickerson

I don't write anything that I haven't lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.

- John Eldredge

All leaders, male or female, innately possess feminine qualities like empathy, candor and vulnerability - the difference lies in which leaders choose to suppress those qualities, and which choose to leverage them as strengths.

- John Gerzema

Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.

- John Gerzema

In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence.

- John J. Sirica

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

- John Lyly

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

- John Lyly

I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours.

- John McCain

I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.

- John O. Brennan

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.

- John Tillotson

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that's the way I am.

- John Wayne

I would say three-quarters of what I do depends on the sincerity of it. You can croak, but if you croak good, they'll still listen.

- Johnny Mathis

Good music is timeless, and if you create with that honesty, it will last.

- Jorja Smith

Integrity delivers better lives.

- Jose Angel Gurria

The American people deserve truthfulness, not more political campaigning. The American people deserve a responsible government that seeks to address their needs, not more ideological dogma.

- Jose Serrano

Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

Integrity, a firm adherence to the highest moral and ethical standards, is essential to the life of a true Latter-day Saint.

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.

- Joyce Meyer

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

- Judith Martin

To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not just to like how it makes you feel.

- Julian Baggini

I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.

- Julian Baggini

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

- Junius

Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty.

- Kangana Ranaut

Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.

- Karan Johar

I don't like people lying; I like honesty.

- Karan Patel

As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.

- Kate Brown

Honesty will never break you.

- Kate Hudson

I have little time for sincerity.

- Katherine Ryan

It is my conviction that secrets are more costly in the long run than honesty.

- Kathryn Harrison

I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect.

- Katy Perry

Honesty has always worked for me.

- Katy Perry

At the end the day because I believe so strongly in leadership, what I look for first, what I try to assess, is integrity.

- Kenneth Chenault

To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

- Keri Hilson

My career is based on openness and honesty.

- Kim Kardashian

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

- Kin Hubbard

I try to stick with things that I can sing with honesty.

- Kurt Elling

Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake.

- Larry Hagman

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

- Laura Schlessinger

For me, honesty is a huge thing, and loyalty, when it comes to relationships.

- Lauren Jauregui

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

- Lawrence G. Lovasik

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.

- Lemuel K. Washburn

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

- Leo Durocher

Honor your commitments with integrity.

- Les Brown

Investing is about intellectual honesty. You want to know what you know. You want to know, mostly, what you don't know.

- Li Lu

Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.

- Lindsey Buckingham

Integrity is something I strive for in every part of my life.

- Lizzie Armitstead

Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.

- Lord Byron

They will look at my career as the guy who gave it all but at the same time did it with integrity. That's what we all aim for - the respect of the game as well as the honesty that's played a part of that game.

- Lou Brock

People think I'm rude. I'm not rude; I'm just not networking. It's just honesty.

- Louise Wilson

In all honesty, I should have given up this acting lark years ago.

- Luke Evans

When I was attorney general, we had the strongest public integrity unit in the country.

- Luther Strange

It's frustrating when people question your integrity.

- Luther Strange

My integrity is something I hold dear.

- Luvvie Ajayi

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

- Madame de Stael

It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.

- Marc Maron

I like honesty and fair play.

- Marcus Garvey

Integrity is integrity. I don't push it to the side because I'm talking to Julia Roberts.

- Maria Menounos

I just think that you have to approach anything you do with a huge amount of integrity - I don't really care where it comes from, whether it's a children's piece or an adult piece.

- Marianne Elliott

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

- Marilyn Monroe

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

- Mark Twain

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

- Mary Browne

Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

- Mason Cooley

I think that if Hollywood has a problem, it constantly underestimates the intelligence and integrity of fans.

- Matthew Davis

I don't want to sign something just because everyone is looking forward to what I sign next. When I take up a project, I am all in to deliver the best I can with sincerity and honesty.

- Mawra Hocane

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

- Max Weber

I need to hold onto my soul and my integrity, and I can't compromise that.

- Megan Fox

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

- Mencius

Sincerity is the way to heaven.

- Mencius

In all honesty, Hilary Clinton can't fill a Starbucks even if they offered free ventis.

- Michael D. Cohen

Our economy is increasingly dependent on the success and integrity of the financial markets.

- Michael Douglas

There is an integrity to INXS, in the music, that makes it worthwhile.

- Michael Hutchence

'The Prince's blunt candor has been a scandal for 500 years. The book was placed on the Papal Index of banned books in 1559, and its author was denounced on the Elizabethan stages of London as the 'Evil Machiavel.' The outrage has not dimmed with time.

- Michael Ignatieff

Integrity is an ecosystem.

- Michael Leunig

You have to make your choices however you see fit and just keep your integrity as best you can.

- Michael Pena

I believe in the importance of sincerity and emotion and honesty in TV, even when it's goofy comedy.

- Michael Schur

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

- Michael Tippett

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

- Michel de Montaigne

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls... that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

- Michelle Obama

You have to have integrity.

- Michelle Yeoh

It's not like I'm taking 20 grand from the shows. I mean there's no record label, so this is a genuine thing. And I think most people can see that. I think that anyone who knows me, knows I do things with integrity.

- Mike Peters

If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility.

- Mike Wallace

Obviously, the Philippines or any regional state can never match Chinese defense spending, but we will have to develop minimum deterrence capabilities that allow us to resist and inflict sufficient retaliation if China continues to undermine Philippine territorial integrity.

- Miriam Defensor-Santiago

We expect candor and transparency from the president, from the administration.

- Mitt Romney

Challenging the integrity of the non-proliferation regime is a matter which can affect international peace and security.

- Mohamed ElBaradei

Nuclear talks are not about nuclear capability. They are about Iranian integrity and dignity.

- Mohammad Javad Zarif

I just try to sing every song with sincerity.

- Mohit Chauhan

In all honesty, I don't really know how to feel sexy.

- Mollie King

If you need help, look to clergy who do not spout their own beliefs but direct you in sincerity by using the Bible.

- Monica Johnson

I think people appreciate honesty.

- Naftali Bennett

I thank God that I left office the same way I came in: with integrity.

- Najib Mikati

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

- Narendra Modi

Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.

- Nathaniel Branden

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.

- Nick Saban

Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.

- Nick Tosches

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

- Nigel Kneale

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

- Noel Coward

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

- Noel Coward

Comedy is just honesty. Whether things are going well or bad.

- Noel Wells

I think I've had the opportunity to work for people because I wanted to and because I thought they were good people, and therefore everything I do, I can do with sincerity.

- Pat Meehan

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

- Patrick Kavanagh

What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.

- Patrick Lencioni

Honesty is always hip.

- Patty Smyth

For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.

- Paul Auster

Where there seems to be a difference between guys being nuts and women being nuts is that guys are much more open in calling each other on stuff; lots of insults and dirty names. Whereas women will talk frankly and honesty, but there also seems to be more passive aggressiveness.

- Paul Feig

Integrity has been enhanced.

- Paul Goldberger

A fish is more valuable swimming in the sea maintaining the integrity of oceanic eco-systems than it is on anyone's plate.

- Paul Watson

In all honesty, I don't know what one song can change.

- Paul Weller

Never, never, will I accept, on issues of integrity, comparisons with the Liberal party.

- Pauline Marois

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

- Peggy Noonan

The integrity of the game is everything.

- Peter Ueberroth

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

- Plato

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.

- Pope John XXIII

As long as we deliver services with the highest level of quality and integrity, I'm happy.

- Punit Renjen

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

- R. Buckminster Fuller

Tension is the great integrity.

- R. Buckminster Fuller

When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.

- Raja Krishnamoorthi

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most writers write from their own experiences. That is where the honesty and intensity of emotions come from.

- Ravi Subramanian

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.

- Ray Blanton

Work hard to achieve integrity in your work and your relationships with the people you work with.

- Rebel Wilson

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

- Richard Bach

The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

- Richard J. Needham

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

- Richard Whately

I'm not getting to heaven on my integrity. I'm not getting to heaven on my goodness.

- Rick Warren

What makes 'Derek' a different kind of sitcom - if it is even a sitcom - is its sincerity.

- Ricky Gervais

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

- Robert Hall

Tom Brady is a person of great integrity and is a great ambassador of the game both on and off the field.

- Robert Kraft

We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.

- Robert M. Pirsig

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

- Roberta Flack

My job is to protect the integrity of the NFL and to make sure the game is as safe as possible.

- Roger Goodell

My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.

- Roger Moore

Unless you can fake sincerity, you'll get nowhere in this business.

- Roger Stone

If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter.

- Ron Suskind

Truth, honesty, empowerment - it's what I want for myself and my readers.

- Rupi Kaur

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

- Russell Lynes

The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators.

- Ruzwana Bashir

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

- Samuel Johnson

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

- Samuel Richardson

Calamity is the test of integrity.

- Samuel Richardson

That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.

- Sandra Bernhard

I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn't be an oddity.

- Sandra Bullock

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

- Sarah Fielding

People are just looking for honesty and authenticity more than anything.

- Sarah Huckabee Sanders

It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.

- Sarah McLachlan

Honesty and authenticity are a big deal for me.

- Scarlett Thomas

The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.

- Scott Hamilton

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

- Seamus Heaney

It's all about the fruit. A crumble should maintain the integrity of the fruit.

- Sherry Yard

So it's kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that they've done, I've been in bigger films than all of them and still kept my integrity and still kept my respect.

- Shia LaBeouf

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

- Sidney Poitier

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.

- Simon Greenleaf

You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud.

- Solomon Burke

I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor comes a measure of vulnerability.

- Sonia Sotomayor

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.

- Sophie Hunger

Throughout my career, I have lived by the principles of personal honor and professional integrity.

- Stanley A. McChrystal

I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people.

- Stephanie Tubbs Jones

The media has zero integrity, zero intelligence, and no hard work. You're the opposition party. Not the Democratic Party. You're the opposition party. The media's the opposition party.

- Stephen Bannon

The only responsible way to write about anything is with honesty.

- Stephen McCauley

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

- Stephen Vincent Benet

All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters. They are real to me while I'm writing them, and I think that makes them real to the readers as well.

- Stephenie Meyer

Everything sells. Like integrity. Like democracy. Like truth. Like deeds.

- Steven Weber

The number one thing I look for in a man is integrity. A man who does what he says he's going to do.

- Summer Glau

The more projects you do, the more actors you meet, the more people you meet, it's harder and harder to give your heart and your complete attention or absolute sincerity to that person.

- Sung Kang

My strength would be my honesty and my passion towards my work.

- Sushant Singh Rajput

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

- Sydney Biddle Barrows

I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.

- T. S. Kalyanaraman

I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

- Tahar Ben Jelloun

You can have integrity with your art, but worrying about integrity doesn't pay the bills.

- Taika Waititi

I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.

- Tammy Baldwin

People don't really need to question our sincerity when it comes to our songs.

- Ted Dwane

When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

- Ted Kotcheff

We are tired of having our integrity impugned. We are tired of having our sincerity questioned. We are tired of having our intelligence insulted.

- Terry Sanford

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

- Thomas Carlyle

There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.

- Thomas Frank

In boxing, as with other government-regulated activity, the integrity of public records should be preserved.

- Thomas Hauser

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

- Thomas Jefferson

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

- Thomas Kretschmann

Integrity reveals beauty.

- Thomas Leonard

More precious is want with honesty than wealth with infamy.

- Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

With a sequel, you always worry for its integrity.

- Tim Curry

If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity.

- Tim Robbins

Integrity is incredibly important to me. As long as you're authentic, you can do no wrong.

- Timm Sharp

I'm always about having integrity with my fans and staying true to what I say.

- Tinashe

Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting.

- Tom Stoppard

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.

- Tommy Lee Jones

I'm me. I can't put on airs. I'm not a phony. I know the way I am hurts me more times than it helps. But somehow it's all tied up with my integrity, and my integrity is the last thing I'm going to let you take from me.

- Tony Dorsett

If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.

- Trevor Nunn

A romantic relationship requires honesty between a couple.

- Tzipi Livni

Honesty is very sexy.

- Valerie Bertinelli

Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

- Vanessa Redgrave

There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.

- Vladimir Putin

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

- Walt Whitman