Elder L. Tom Perry:   "You might ask, how can we be completely honest?  To be completely honest, we must look carefully at our lives and have the courage to face the whole truth.  If there are ways in which we are being even the least bit dishonest, we should begin at once to repent from them.  When we are completely honest, we cannot be corrupted.  We are true to every trust, duty, agreement, and covenant, even if it costs us money, friends, or our lives.  Then we can face the Lord, ourselves, and others without shame."

        "The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them."

"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do it he knew he would never be found out."

         "Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him.  But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor.  Then all goes well.  He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun."

        "Oliver Wendell Holmes said, 'Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.' "
   (The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table.)

          "Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas."

            "It's true that you can't take it with you, but folks ought to remember that how you got it may determine where you go."

"Dare to be true;
nothing can need a lie;
a fault which needs it most
grows two thereby."

            "Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect."

"In the midst of all this turmoil and destruction, the Latter-day Saints should dwell in peace and safety.  This they may do if they will be honest with themselves, with their fellowmen, and with their God."

      When people proceed "without principle," erelong they will be "without civilization," "without mercy," and "past feeling."

        "Be fair.  The best rule ever given concerning standards of fairness was spoken by the Lord when he said, "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them."          (Matt. 7: 12.) (CR Oct 1981)

"It is not half so important for our neighbors to know that we are honest as it is for ourselves to know it."

Franklin D. Richards, CR 4/98:1

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        "You may talk about religion and speak about the Gospel, and say we have got the truth and the plan of salvation, and we have got the authority of the Priesthood; but if we are not honest, it does not amount to anything; for neither God nor honorable men love dishonesty.  We must, therefore, be an honest people."

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        "And let every man deal honestly, and be alike among this people, and receive alike, that ye may be
one, even as I have commanded you."           (Doctrine and Covenants 51:9)

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     "Whenever you violate a principle (such as honesty, morality, integrity, etc.), you may get a short-term gain, but always a long-term loss."

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        "Honesty is the foundation of a sound character and the keystone of all other virtues. It is the cement without which all other redeeming features are fractured and without anchor. A dishonest person may be kind, witty, and very capable, but the strength of character simply isn't there. Honesty does not come by degrees. A person is either all honest or he is dishonest. You can be true or you can be false, but you can't be both at the same time."

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		"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong. "