No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true.                                             —Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.      —Spencer Johnson

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.                                                                             —Hugh Prather

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you’re trying to accomplish and what you’re willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.                   —Lee Iacocca

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

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

—Chinese proverb

What’s terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don’t need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you’re capable of better.

—Doris Lessing

Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie — for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance — will instantly vitiate the effect.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

—Charles Caleb Coltron

“No” uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a “Yes” merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

—Mohandas Gandhi

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

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

—Fanny Brice

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

—Samuel Johnson