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Sep 26, 2025
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.
Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
"Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense of justice, to my reverence for the rights of life, to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity, or to my faith in Wakan Tanka, God of the Lakotas.
We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.
My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.
Our lives improve only when we take chances.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore."
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.
Truth, honesty, perseverance, strength, love of all kinds and forgiveness are all beautiful, Tack. The most beautiful stories ever told are the most difficult to take.
Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man who believes in Rama Nama would not make a fetish of the body but would regard it as a means of serving God. And for making it into a fit instrument for that purpose, Rama Nama is the sovereign means. To install Rama Nama in the heart requires infinite patience. It might even take ages. But the effort is worthwhile. Rama Nama cannot come from the heart unless one has cultivated the virtues of truth, honesty and purity within and without.
An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice and so on).
Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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.