Pillar for May/June

Character:

"He who stops being better stops being good."
by Oliver Cromwell

Trustworthiness:

TRUSTWORTHINESS Be honest * Don't cheat or steal * Do what you say you'll do
* Have the courage to do the right thing * Build a good reputation * Be
loyal; stand by your family, friends and country

It is more shameful to distrust one’s friends than to be deceived by them.
— François duc de la Rochefoucauld, 17th-century French memoirist and
philosopher

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
— François duc de la Rochefoucauld, 17th-century French memoirist and
philosopher

Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves. —
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 18th-century French philosopher

More dangers have deceived men than forced them.
— Francis Bacon, 16th-century English philosopher and essayist

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what
is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of
confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining
their trust and betraying them without remorse.
— Janet Malcolm, 20th-century American journalist and author (The Journalist
and the Murderer)

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
— Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw), 19th-century American humorist

A promise made is a debt unpaid.
— Robert W. Service (in "The Cremation of Sam McGee," 1907)

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what
we cannot.
— Abraham Lincoln, 19th-century American president

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
—Robert Louis Stevenson

The great masses of people…will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to
a little one.
—Adolf Hitler

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
—Thomas Jefferson

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
—Abraham Lincoln

The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.
— Pope John Paul II

I have not observed men’s honesty to increase with their riches.
— Thomas Jefferson, 18th-century American Founding Father, early
19th-century U.S. president (letter to Jeremiah Moor, 1800)

Honesty isn’t a policy at all; it’s a state of mind or it isn’t honesty.
— Eugene L’Hote

Don’t tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and
never forgive you.
— Logan Pearsall Smith

Frankness invites frankness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th-century American essayist, public philosopher
and poet

An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few
people can swallow it.
— Emily Post, 20th-century American etiquette advisor and author

The pursuit of truth will set you free — even if you never catch up with it.
— Clarence Darrow, 20th-century American lawyer

"Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths."
— Edgar A. Shoaff

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very
unprofitable.
— Leo Burnett, 20th-century American advertising pioneer

When all else fails, tell the truth.
— Donald T. Regan, 20th-century American business executive, Treasury
Secretary, chief of staff for President Ronald Reagan

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance."
— Edgar J. Mohn

"If you add to the truth, you subtract from it.
— The Talmud

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.
— Jewish proverb

Surround yourself with people you trust.
—Oprah Winfrey

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate,
contrived, and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive and
realistic.
— John F. Kennedy, 20th-century American president (from the Yale
Commencement address, 1962)

A belief is not true because it is useful.
— Henri Amiel

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
— A.E. Housman

When somebody lies, somebody loses.
— Stephanie Ericsson

Flattery makes friends, truth enemies.
— Spanish proverb

Lying can never save us from another lie.
— Vaclav Havel, 20th-century Czech poet and political activist, first
president of post-Communist Republic

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready to call it
falsehood tomorrow.
— William James, 19th-century American philosopher and author

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your
word or lose your self-respect.
— Marcus Aurelius

Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance and cruelty.
—Raisa M. Gorbachev

We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
—Blaise Pascal

Finally, it’s honesty that heals.
—Suzanne Somers

Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants,
is the liberty of appearing.
—Thomas Paine

"You never find yourself until you face the truth."
—Pearl Bailey

As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
(1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist)

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often more accurate than
you are willing to believe.
—Claudia Black

Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one
of its attributes.
—Arthur Eddington

Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right
to be wrong about his facts.
—Bernard Baruch

Be honest. Tell the truth. Don’t try to think of something to say: just say
whatever is the truth.
—Oprah Winfrey

If what you are telling is true, you don’t have to choose your words so
carefully.
—Frank A. Clark

Truth is the goal. Everything seems clearer because it’s the truth. By
interacting with total honesty, your reward is contentment.
—Suzanne Somers

Ask truth; speak truth; and act truth – now and forever.
—Lillian Hellman

We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t
true. It’s always better with the truth.
—Buckminster Fuller

Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.
—Emily Dickinson

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
—George Eliot

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh

If you seek what is honorable, what is truth all the other things come as a
matter of course.
—Oprah Winfrey

When you’ve done a wrong, you have to right that wrong or you can’t rest.
—Lillian Hellman

Speak the truth – no matter what comes of it.
—Ellen Glasgow

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.
—Mark Twain

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider
the most enviable of all titles, the character of an ‘Honest Man’. Your
honesty influences others to be honest.
—George Washington

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a
second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies
without attending to it and truths without the world’s believing him. This
falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all
its good dispositions.
—Thomas Jefferson

I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.
—John F. Kennedy

Liars, when they speak the truth, are not believed.
—Aristotle

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its
pants on.
—Winston Churchill

A lie keeps growing and growing, until it’s as plain as the nose on your face.
—Evelyn Venable as the Blue Fairy in Walt Disney’s Pinocchio

Now, rumor travels faster, but it don’t stay put as long as truth.
—Will Rogers

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat
has only nine lives.
—Mark Twain

When the truth is in your way, you are on the wrong road.
—Josh Billings

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with
important affairs.
—Albert Enstein

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
—Jackie Robinson

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job
well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
—Barbara Walters

And if I were condemned and brought to the place of judgment…I would say
nothing else and I would maintain unto death what I have said in this trial.
—Joan of Arc

"No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness."
— Harry Emerson Fosdick

"How many times do you get to lie before you are a liar?"
— Michael Josephson, 20th/21st-century American ethicist

"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away."
— Elvis Presley

"Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right, and stick to it."
— George Eliot

"My only ambition is to do my duty in this world as well as I am capable of performing it, and to merit the good opinion of all good men."
— George Washington, on the eve of his election as President, 1789.

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