When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Nouwen, Henri

22.

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

Twain, Mark

23.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

24.

There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked.

Marx, Groucho

25.

If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

26.

Look a man in the eye and say what you really think, don't just smile at him and say what you're supposed to think.

27.

When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.

Pamela Ribon

28.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

Thomas Jefferson

29.

A thread will tie an honest man better than a chain a rogue.

Proverb, Scottish

30.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.

Marden, Orison Swett

32.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

33.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

Mcmahon, Ed

34.

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Kin Hubbard

35.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

36.

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

Cayce, Edgar

37.

If you follow only one rule, let it be this one: Be yourself. The really strong boy-girl relationships are based on what people really are, not on what they pretend to be.

38.

Prefer a loss to dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

Chilo

39.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Kant, Immanuel

40.

Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

James, William

41.

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

43.

Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

44.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Billings, Josh

45.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

46.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

47.

When we are not honest, we are cut off from a significant resource of ourselves, a vital dimension that is necessary for unity and wholeness.