Many people today don’t want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

—Louis Kronenberger

With integrity you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. With fear and guilt removed you are free to be and do your best. —Zig Ziglar

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

—Chinese proverb

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.     —Alan Simpson

An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.

—Proverbs 24:26

“Honesty” without compassion and understanding is not honesty, but subtle hostility.               —Rose N. Franzblau

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.              —Virginia Woolf

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

—Samuel Johnson

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.       —Noel Coward

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.     —Harper Lee

People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one’s way, in the way of ones’ good fortune... and at bottom it is always man himself that stands in his own way.  —Soren Kierkegaard

To have true integrity, poise, and courage is to be attuned to the silent and invisible nature within you.                 —John O’Donohue