Value of the Day: Honesty

And here are a few thoughts on the subject:

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
Zig Ziglar

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

I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.
Summer Altice

No legacy is so rich as honesty.
William Shakespeare

Honesty is the best policy.
Benjamin Franklin

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
Lao Tzu

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
John Steinbeck

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
William Shakespeare

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

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.
Ellen DeGeneres

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

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dali

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
George Bernard Shaw

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.
Zig Ziglar

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
Plato

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

I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.
Shania Twain

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

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
Bertrand Russell

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken

Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.
Dave Van Ronk

What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
Vanessa Marcil

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.
Hugh Prather

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
Dennis Prager

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens

I like honesty and fair play.
Marcus Garvey

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