Quotes: Honesty is Greatness Itself

 

 

"Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter."

Tiger Woods

 

"The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself."

Christian Nestell Bovee

 

 "If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters."

Alan K. Simpson

 

"Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds."

Benjamin Franklin

 

"To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful."

Edward R. Murrow

 

"When truth is divided, errors multiply."

Eli Siegel

 

"Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue."

Billy Joel

 

" It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good."

Margaret Mead

 

 "Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

 

 "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."

Winston Churchill