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Honesty Quotes

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

Steve Landesberg

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.

James E. Faust

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

C.S. Lewis

Honesty pays, but it doesn’t seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Kin Hubbard

An honest man is always a child.

Socrates

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

Henri-Frederic Amiel

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.

David A. Bednar

Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.

Robert Brault

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.

William Shakespeare

It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.

Rick Riordan

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Brigham Young

Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.

John Gerzema

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

Spencer Johnson

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

Andre Gide

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

Living with integrity means speaking the truth, even though it might create conflict or tension.

Thomas J. Watson

Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people.

Warren Buffett

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

William Shakespeare

Honesty is the highest form of respect.

Unknown

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

Warren Wiersbe

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.

Elvis Presley

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Miguel de Cervantes

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't.

Mark Twain

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable, than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Georges Braque

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Miguel de Cervantes

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Isaac Newton

To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.

Criss Jami

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Mahatma Gandhi

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Mahatma Gandhi

Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes.

Maggie Kuhn

Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that’s probably the biggest key to success.

Taylor Lautner

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

George Washington

The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.

R.D. Laing

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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.

Mary Kay Ash

Truth is the glue that holds all relationships together.

Stephen Covey

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

George Washington

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

William Shakespeare

An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.

Proverbs 24:26

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

Thomas Jefferson

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.

John Lennon

An honest man’s word is as good as his bond.

Miguel de Cervantes

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

Victor Hugo

The greatest advantage of speaking the truth is that you don’t have to remember what you said.

Mark Twain

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.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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.

Thomas Carlyle

Integrity is making sure that the things you say and the things you do are in alignment.

Katrina Mayer

Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.

John Dryden

Who lies for you will lie against you.

Bosnian Proverb

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people.

Warren Buffet

Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can’t be faked.

Peter Guber

Respect is earned. Honesty is appreciated. Trust is gained. Loyalty is returned.

Unknown

Truth fears no questions.

Unknown

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Sojourner Truth

Integrity is telling the truth to yourself; honesty is telling the truth to others.

Spencer Johnson

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Friedrich Schiller

Let the truth be told.

Unknown

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

Mother Teresa

Honesty is the best policy.

Benjamin Franklin

Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.

James Altucher

Dishonesty destroys self-respect and integrity.

Unknown

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Albert Einstein

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Flannery O'Connor

One honest relationship can prevent a thousand lies.

Unknown

Better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

Khaled Hosseini

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

Richard J. Needham

Truth builds trust.

Marilyn Suttle

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Mark Twain

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

James A. Garfield

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.

Edward R. Murrow

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

Honesty has a power that very few people can handle.

Steven Aitchison

An honest enemy is better than a false friend.

Unknown