Honesty Is The Best Policy Related Quotes

Since the dawn of history, mankind has honoured and respected brave and honest people. ~ Nelson Mandela

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. ~ Walter Lippmann

We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. ~ George Washington

Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city ... ~ Samuel R. Delany

Although honesty is said to be the best policy, when it comes to ourselves it is often the hardest. ~ Charles F. Glassman

Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Honesty is the best insurance policy. ~ Brian Spellman

From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is the best policy?] ~ John Harington

I wanna take you somewhere and get you naked."
Yeah, I said it.
Honesty is always the best policy.
You get nowhere unless you ask for what you want. ~ V. Theia

In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean. ~ Edward Abbey

If the mood is overly anxious, then anxiety must be reduced by lowering uncertainty. Very simply, uncertainty is reduced when people are told what's going on and what will happen to them. In the vacuum of no news, people imagine the worst. Since disappointment is much easier to handle than anxiety, then, good news or bad, honesty is honestly the best policy. ~ Judith M Bardwick

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves. ~ James A. Garfield

Some people will tell you that honesty is the best policy, but I disagree. In instances like this, I fully believe that feigned ignorance is the best policy. ~ Leila Sales

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. ~ Mother Teresa

Honesty is the best policy anyone need". ~ Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. ~ Richard Whately

Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while. ~ Richard M. Nixon

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not. ~ Dean Inge

Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous. ~ Charles H. Brower

In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays. ~ Kapil Dev

And what is true education? It is awakening a love for truth; giving a just sense of duty; opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life. It is not so much giving words, as thoughts; or mere maxims, as living principles. It is not teaching to be honest, because 'honesty is the best policy'; but because it is right. It is teaching the individual to love the good, for the sake of the good; to be virtuous in action because one is so in heart; to love and serve God supremely, not from fear, but from delight in his perfect character. ~ David O. McKay

Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend. ~ Sean Covey

Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man? ~ C.S. Lewis

There are illusions of popular history which a successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumphs; a good deed is its own reward; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness. ~ Frank Herbert

You don't have to pick me up," I said in a rush.
"Considering you have no idea where we're going and I have no intention of telling you, I'm quite sure that I do."
"I can meet you somewhere centrally located."
Noah sounded amused. "I promise to press my trousers before meeting your family. I'll even bring flowers for the occasion."
"Oh, God. Please don't." I said. Maybe honesty is the best policy. "My family is going to screw with my life if you come over." I knew them far too well.
"Congratulations
you just made the prospect all the more enticing. What is your address? ~ Michelle Hodkin

Anyone who says honesty is the best policy is living in la-la land. Either that or they have never been married or had children. Parents lie to their kids all the time--about sex, drugs, death, and a hundred other things. We lie to those we love to protect their feelings. We lie because that's what love means, whereas unfettered honesty is cruel and the height of self-indulgence. ~ Michael Robotham

When the name of Gail Wynand became a threat in the publishing world, a group of newspaper owners took him aside-at a city charity affair which all had to attend-and reproached him for what they called hid debasement of the public taste.
"It is not my function" said Wynand, "to help people preserve a self-respect they haven't got. You give them what they profess to like in public, I give them what they really like. Honesty is the best policy, gentlemen, though not quite in the sense you were taught to belive". ~ Ayn Rand

Trust, honesty, humility, transparency and accountability are the building blocks of a positive reputation. Trust is the foundation of any relationship. ~ Mike Paul

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself. ~ William Shakespeare

Honesty is always the best policy. ~ George Washington

Before us lie two paths - honesty and dishonesty. The shortsighted embark on the dishonest path; the wise on the honest. For the wise know the truth; in helping others we help ourselves; and in hurting others we hurt ourselves. Character overshadows money, and trust rises above fame. Honesty is still the best policy. ~ Napoleon Hill

Honesty is the best Policy is the Capitalistic thought as it gives free of cost Security to their assets and to their investments........ ~ Tarif Naaz

People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy. ~ Ma Ying-jeou

Honesty is not the best policy in life. Only, perhaps, in art. ~ Salman Rushdie

Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning. ~ Miguel De Cervantes

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. ~ Gerald R. Ford