Honesty

Definition of Honesty

Honesty refers to a facet of moral character and denotes positive, virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, and straightforwardness along with the absence of lying, cheating, or theft.

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Some Memorable Quotes About Honesty:

“Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.”

By _ William Shakespeare

"Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty. "

By _ Plato (BC 427-BC 347) Greek philosopher.

"An honest man's the noblest work of God."

By _ Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet and satirist.

“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”

By _ Spencer Johnson

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”

By _ Thomas Jefferson

“People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.”

By_ Kent M. Keith

"To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education."

By _ John Ruskin (1819-1900) English art critic.

"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."

By _ George Washington (1732-1799) First President of the USA.

"Honesty prospers in every condition of life."

By _ Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) German dramatist, poet and historian.

"Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not."

By _ Henry Fielding (1707-1754) English novelist and dramatist.

"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."

By _ Josh Billings (1815-1885) American humorist and lecturer.

"No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged."

By _ Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) French philosopher and essayist.