Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
To be honest is to be real, genuine, authentic, and original.
— Unknown
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
Honesty pays, but it doesn’t seem to pay enough to suit some people.
An honest man is always a child.
— Socrates
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
The truth may hurt for a little while, but a lie hurts forever.
— Unknown
Sometimes you have to tell the truth, even to yourself.
— Unknown
People of integrity and honesty not only practice what they preach, they are what they preach.
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
— Ice Cube
Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.
Honest hearts produce honest actions.
Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
When in doubt, tell the truth.
Living with integrity means speaking the truth, even though it might create conflict or tension.
Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people.
To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
Honesty is the highest form of respect.
— Unknown
Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable, than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Truth exists; only lies are invented.
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes.
Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that’s probably the biggest key to success.
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Honesty is the first step to wisdom.
— Unknown
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Truth is the glue that holds all relationships together.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.
Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
— Plato
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.
An honest man’s word is as good as his bond.
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
The greatest advantage of speaking the truth is that you don’t have to remember what you said.
No matter how fast lies run, the truth will catch up with them.
— Unknown
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
— Lao Tzu
Honesty saves everyone’s time.
— Unknown
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one rascal less in the world.
Integrity is making sure that the things you say and the things you do are in alignment.
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
Who lies for you will lie against you.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people.
Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can’t be faked.
Respect is earned. Honesty is appreciated. Trust is gained. Loyalty is returned.
— Unknown
Truth fears no questions.
— Unknown
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
Integrity is telling the truth to yourself; honesty is telling the truth to others.
Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
Let the truth be told.
— Unknown
Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.
Honesty is the best policy.
Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
Dishonesty destroys self-respect and integrity.
— Unknown
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
One honest relationship can prevent a thousand lies.
— Unknown
Better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
Truth builds trust.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
Honesty is the highest form of intimacy.
— Unknown
To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable, we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
— Cicero
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
Honesty has a power that very few people can handle.
An honest enemy is better than a false friend.
— Unknown