Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what you're saying carries through.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

My body gets weak without truth.

If people could be as honest as animals, what a different world it would be.

Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.

Honesty will never break you.

It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.

You know, I think what the American people want more than anything else right now is someone who's just going to look them in the eye and tell them the truth, even some truths that they don't like. And - but they have to believe the person's speaking from their heart and are authentic.

Honestly is always an option, even when you don't think it is.

It feels so good to tell the truth.

I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.

Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while

When in doubt, tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

The tongue should express what is in the heart.

There is something so mean and unmanly in the arts of dissimulation and falsehood that I am surprised they can be used by anyone in so noble, so generous a passion as virtuous love.

I'm going to speak the truth when I'm asked about it.

I've always spoken my mind and from the heart.

There's freedom in being rigorously honest. I lied all my life.

I think you've got to be as honest as possible in order to influence someone.

The thing for me is to always tell the truth. Not to preach, but to tell the truth.

There's a genuineness that I hope I offer to viewers.

Life tests our willingness, in ways large and small, to tell the truth.