Kapil Dev Quotes

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Honesty is the best policy.

People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

That's one of the main things I've learned: honesty is paramount. The biggest thing I try and instil in my daughter. My deepest regrets have been to do with times that I've been dishonest. There's nothing worse than getting caught out in a lie. It's excruciatingly embarrassing.

Honesty is a foundation, and it's usually a solid foundation. Even if I do get in trouble for what I said, it's something that I can stand on.

You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.

Honesty is better than any policy.

Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!

You can't cheat an honest man.

Honesty is the cornerstone of character.

You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody you love, and they actually, sincerely believe you, you feel like a cockroach that needs some serious Raid action.

Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

Honesty is the mother of confidence; it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration; it destroys confidence; it brings social chaos. . . .

I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.

I don't think telling the truth ever gets anyone in trouble in the long run. Maybe the day after, but not in the long run.

A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one sly falsehood. When one is detected, a thousand are suspected.

He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.

Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.