Stephen Hopkins Quotes

Live truth instead of professing it.

No lie ever reaches old age.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

Honesty is the best policy.

Honesty is all you need.

Honesty has always worked for me.

I'm as honest as I can be.

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.

Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.

Just be true all the way through, and people can't do anything but respect you for it.

Honesty is always hip.

When I do things, I do things honestly.

I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.

Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.

Character is that quality of mind which makes truth-telling instinctive rather than strange.

I'm okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it's fabricated and ill-motived, it's not good.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

I always say this: 'In life, truth is on your side.'

I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

Honesty will never break you.

I abhor hypocrisy.