Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
Winston Churchill

Be prepared and be honest.
John Wooden

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Benjamin Franklin

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
Benjamin Franklin

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Benjamin Franklin

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Mohandas Gandhi

An honest man is always a child.
Socrates

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Socrates

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Helen Keller

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
George Washington

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.
George Washington

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx

So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
Will Rogers

To live outside the law, you must be honest.
Bob Dylan

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

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
Ted Turner

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Sigmund Freud