70+ Honesty Quotes, Sayings About Being Honest
Honesty is a quality which we all expect from everyone or can be considered as most important quality for every type of relationship whether it is personal or professional. Actually honesty is the foundation stone of trust and love and without it no relationship can sustain and to understand the importance of honesty and being honest in a better way, sharing few quotes on honesty. Hope you enjoy reading them!
Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don’t expect it from cheap people.
Warren Buffett
Honesty is better than sugar coasted bullshit.
Anonymous
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Abraham Lincoln
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
Groucho Marx
An honest man’s the noblest work of God.
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle IV, line 247.
Being honest never hurts anyone. Being a liar hurts only you.
Anonymous
Honesty is the best policy.
English proverb
Honesty is the highest form of intimacy.
Anonymous
Tell a lie once and all your truths become questionable.
Anonymous
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well (1600s), Act III, scene 5, line 13.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon (12 January 1819)
Not telling me something or hiding something on purpose is just the same as lying.
Anonymous
Be honest with the people who love you.
Anonymous
I don’t want perfect, I want honest.
Anonymous
I’m not rude, I’m honest. I just speak what’s on my mind, even if most can’t handle the truth.
Anonymous
I’m sorry if you don’t like my honesty, but to be fair I don’t like your lies.
Anonymous
Honesty is a very expensive gift , Don't expect it from cheap people.
Anonymous
Respect is earned, Honesty is appreciated. Trust is gained. Loyalty is returned.
Auliq Ice
In a relationship, honesty and trust must exist. If they dont, theres no point of loving. So if you cant afford to be honest, stay single.
Anonymous
Be honest with the people, who love you, they deserve your honesty.
Anonymous
The first step toward greatness is to be honest.
Proverb, As reported in Louis Klopsch, Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896).
I respect those that tell me the truth, no matter how hard it is.
Anonymous
There are four very important words in life: Love, Honesty, Truth and Respect. Without these in your life, you have NOTHING.
Anonymous
Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.
Mother Teresa
It’s funny how everyone considers honesty a virtue, yet no one wants to hear the truth.
Anonymous
Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.
Kelley Armstrong, The Calling (2012)
Honesty, is the foundation for trust, you can’t have one without the other.
Anonymous
Honesty saves you time from remembering all the lies.
Anonymous
The only people mad at you for speaking the TRUTH are those people who are living a LIE. Keep speaking the TRUTH
Anonymous
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.
John Lennon
The greatest advantage of speaking the truth is that you don’t have to remember what you said.
Anonymous
Honesty will never break you.
Kate Hudson
Don’t ever regret being honest. Period.
Taylor Swift
Apologize for being wrong not for being honest.
Anonymous
Honesty, integrity, respect.
Anonymous
If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
Bruce Lee
Honesty does not guarantee success, but it is an honorable and respected way to achieve honestly earned success.
Dr T.P.Chia
Be honest with me
Anonymous
Honesty – Always be truthful and sincere.
Anonymous
True friendship is based on trust, honesty and sincere generosity of our hearts.
Anonymous
Happiness is, honesty.
Anonymous
Everybody wants the truth, but nobody wants to be honest
Anonymous
Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don’t expect it from cheap people.
Warren Buffett
Honesty If You Cannot Be Real, Don’t Confuse Others With Bad Politics.
Anonymous
Be honest with the people, who love you , they deserve your honesty.
Anonymous
Never Go Out Of Your Way To Explain Someone Your Honesty and; Their Faults. Because Time Has Its Own Way Of Revealing The Truth.
Anonymous
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist (1891).
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.
Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1791)
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.
John Lennon
Mostly, if you want to succeed, you will need your customers to see you as reliable, dependable, credible, helpful, respectful, open, responsive and honest.
Anonymous
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
James E. Faust
People may not tell you how they feel about you, but they always show you. Pay attention.
Anonymous
Be honest with me. That's all I ask for.
Anonymous
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
Victor Hugo
Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
Augustine of Hippo
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (180 AD.)
Don’t let your ears witness what your eyes didn’t see. Don’t let your mouth speak what your heart doesn’t feel. Live an honest life.
Anonymous
I’ll choose honesty over perfection every single time.
Anonymous
Be Yourself. Everyone Else Is Already Taken.
Oscar Wilde (No source)
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain’t lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Josh Billings
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
James E. Faust
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
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
Zig Ziglar
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Thomas Carlyle
Before us lie two paths – honesty and dishonesty. The shortsighted embark on the dishonest path; the wise on the honest. For the wise know the truth; in helping others we help ourselves; and in hurting others we hurt ourselves. Character overshadows money, and trust rises above fame. Honesty is still the best policy.
Napoleon Hill
Honest hearts produce honest actions.
Brigham Young, Discourses of Brigham Young
Honesty Is Always One of The Best Key To Make A Good Relationship.
Anonymous
If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.
Mark Twain, Notebook entry, January or February 1894, Mark Twain’s Notebook, ed. Albert Bigelow Paine (1935).
I’m sorry if you don’t like my honesty, but to be fair I don’t like your lies.
Anonymous
Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.
Thomas Otwat, The Orphan (1680)
There is no difference between a simpleton and honest.
The lack of money is the root of all evil.