Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth"

John Travolta, Actor

"It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected"

John Bradshaw, Philosopher

"A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood"

William Shenstone, Poet

"When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness"

Ausonius, Poet

"The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it"

Richard Cecil, Clergyman

"I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation"

Carol Gilligan, Psychologist

"Many have been with the show for years, and they have sources in the business, so we do know things, but until it is verified, we don't run with the story"

Mary Hart, Entertainer

"It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially"

Lauren Bacall, Actress

"I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things"

Mary Hart, Entertainer

"Most style is not honest enough"

F. L. Lucas, Critic

"What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up to some persona"

Marc Anthony, Musician

"I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press"

Kiefer Sutherland, Actor

"And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

"Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?"

Sydney Madwed, Businessman

"I never did anything I'm really ashamed of"

Lauryn Hill, Musician

"Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already"

Tommy Shaw, Musician

"Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships"

Lauryn Hill, Musician

"She had her reward! - That reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty"

Ernestine L. Rose, Activist

"I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk"

Olympia Dukakis, Actress

"I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life"

Mariel Hemingway, Actress

"It's impossible to always get across what I'm trying to say, but, if I just stay honest, then I'm not going to look back on any of these interviews and wonder what I was trying to do or be"

Kristen Stewart, Actress

"I refuse to be crude and selfish in any way"

DeForest Kelley, Actor

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

Sandra Bernhard, Actress

"I'm an open book"

Benny Hinn, Clergyman

"I'd be a fool to be in this for the money"

Benny Hinn, Clergyman

"I know me, and those close to me know me. But sadly, the outside world thinks I'm some kind of a crook"

Benny Hinn, Clergyman

"But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early"

Susan Estrich, Journalist

"I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it"

Randy Harrison, Actor

"Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible"

George Bancroft, Historian

"I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?"

Elliott Smith, Musician

"Jimmy Stewart was a very sincere, honest and straightforward man"

Robert Wagner, Actor

"The concern is the Government is not coming clean and informing the Australian public of the assumptions that they have made to give rise to a $10.4 billion package"

Julie Bishop, Politician

"When it starts to seem like you have popped into bed with a specific party, it makes it difficult for people to believe you are not doing someone else's bidding for them"

Rachel Maddow, Journalist

"You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit"

Demosthenes, Statesman

"I do admit there have been times when I have made a statement that was incorrect"

Benny Hinn, Clergyman

"I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version!"

Oliver North, Soldier

"I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy"

Oliver North, Soldier

"I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it"

Oliver North, Soldier

"The longer the president goes without telling his side of the story, the more unease there will be in the public"

George Stephanopoulos, Celebrity

"The Republican National Committee hired me, and they hired me because they wanted someone who could look members straight in the eye and tell them the truth"

Frank Luntz, Politician

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