Honest Quotes

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Ask for feedback from people with diverse backgrounds. Each one will tell you one useful thing. If you're at the top of the chain, sometimes people won't give you honest feedback because they're afraid. In this case, disguise yourself, or get feedback from other sources.

An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.

Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

I bring to the work [of president] an honest heart; I dare not tell you that I bring a head sufficient for it.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

An honest man is always a child.

Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.