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Below, you will find a wide range of honesty quotes that provide great insights, revelations, inspiration, guidance, and the strength to be honest and expect honesty from others.
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113+ Revealing Honesty Quotes & Sayings
1. “Truth builds trust.” – Marilyn Suttle
2. “Truth fears no questions.” – Unknown
3. “I’m not rude, I’m honest.” – Unknown
4. “You can’t lie to your soul.” – Irvine Welsh
5. “Honesty is the best policy.” – Benjamin Franklin
6. “Be honest, brutally honest.” – Lauryn Hill
7. “Frankness invites frankness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. “Honesty and loyalty are key.” – Taylor Lautner
9. “Make yourself an honest man.” – Thomas Carlyle
10. “Clarity is a gift of honesty.” – @AmuseChimp
11. “Be honest rather than clever.” – Maxime Lagacé
12. “Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. “Honesty saves everyone’s time.” – Unknown
14. “A half-truth is a whole lie.” – Yiddish Proverb
15. “Spontaneity is total sincerity.” – Alan Watts
16. “An honest man is always a child.” – Socrates
17. “No legacy is so rich as honesty.” – William Shakespeare
18. “If you want to be trusted, be honest.” – Unknown
19. “Honest people don’t hide their deeds.” – Emily Brontë
20. “An honest man’s the noblest work of God.” – Alexander Pope
21. “A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.” – Edgar J. Mohn
22. “Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty.” – Winston Churchill
23. “I admire honesty more than any other trait.” – Jerry Reinsdorf
24. “To live outside the law, you must be honest.” – Bob Dylan
25. “I meant what I said and I said what I meant.” – Dr. Seuss
26. “The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.” – William Shakespeare
27. “An honest man’s word is as good as his bond.” – Anonymous
28. “Honesty prospers in every condition of life.” – Friedrich Schiller
29. “Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.” – Sophocles
30. “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” – George Washington
Famous Honesty Quotes
31. “The first step toward greatness is to be honest.” – Proverb
32. “Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.” – Henry David Thoreau
33. “Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.” – Vernon Howard
34. “Be honest in your life it creates positive energy.” – Fathima Bibi Joosab
35. “It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.” – Rick Riordan
36. “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” – Thomas Jefferson
37. “It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.” – Victor Hugo
38. “Honesty has a power that very few people can handle.” – Steven Aitchison
39. “When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.” – Criss Jami
40. “We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
41. “The first step is to be honest, and then to be noble.” – Winston Churchill
42. “If you want to get free, you have to first get honest.” – Joyce Meyer
Honesty Quotes About Love
43. “Each time we don’t say what we wanna say, we’re dying.” – Yoko Ono
44. “Honesty plus love will get you through most situations.” – Naval Ravikant
45. “Just try, try to be right here, open, honest, straight.” – Ram Dass
46. “A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.” – Antonio Porchia
47. “No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.” – Abraham Lincoln
48. “There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.” – Frank Ocean
49. “To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.” – Mahatma Gandhi
50. “If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain
51. “The most interesting thing you can say is the most honest.” – Rorty Witt
52. “To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.” – Confucius
53. “I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.” – Daniel Radcliffe
54. “When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth.” – Khaled Hosseini
55. “The real source of inner joy is to remain truthful and honest.” – 14th Dalai Lama
56. “Before you can lie to another, you must first lie to yourself.” – Naval Ravikant
57. “No matter what you do, stand up for who you are and be honest.” – Bryant McGill
More Honesty Quotes
58. “Leadership is intelligence, honesty, and doing the right thing.” – Julie Zeilinger
59. “To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.” – Will Durant
60. “Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.” William Shakespeare
61. “If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.” – Marcus Aurelius
62. “Speak with honesty, think with sincerity, and act with integrity.” – Anonymous
63. “Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest.” – William Faulkner
64. “Be honest with the people who love you. They deserve your honesty.” – Anonymous
65. “You ask me what forces me to speak? A strange thing; my conscience.” – Victor Hugo
66. “Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people.” – Warren Buffett
67. “People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.” – Ben Carson
68. “Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.” – Bell Hooks
69. “Honesty first; then courage; then brains – and all are indispensable.” – Theodore Roosevelt
70. “Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.” – Kent M. Keith
71. “The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.” – Abu Bakr RA
72. “Leading your life honestly and truthfully will create trust and friendship.” – 14th Dalai Lama
73. “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.” – Abraham Lincoln
74. “Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.” – James Altucher
75. “It is always helpful to remain honest and truthful in the face of difficulty.” – 14th Dalai Lama
76. “Be honest about where you are at so that you can get to where you want to be.” Joyce Meyer
77. “All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
78. “Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.” – Mother Teresa
79. “Honesty is not only ‘the first step toward greatness,’ – it is greatness itself.” Christian Nestell Bovee
80. “If you want to save time, be honest. If you want to save your life, be courageous.” – Maxime Lagacé
81. “Three little duties – to try hard, to be honest, and to help ourselves and others.” – Ryan Holiday
82. “We have to put effort into being honest, truthful and compassionate towards others.” – 14th Dalai Lama
83. “To live a life of honesty and integrity is a responsibility of every decent person.” – Noam Chomsky
84. “Be honest with yourself and never settle for a life that is not true to who you are.” – ATGW
85. “Authenticity without empathy is selfish. Authenticity without boundaries is careless.” – Adam Grant
86. “Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.” – Kenneth H. Blanchard
87. “Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.” – John Lennon
88. “All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not the science of honesty and goodness.” – Michel de Montaigne
89. “To express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself; that, my friend, is very hard to do.” – Bruce Lee
90. “Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” – Spencer Johnson
91. “The responsibility is all yours; no one can stop you from being honest or straightforward.” – Marcus Aurelius
92. “Every lie is two lies, the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.” – Robert Brault
93. “Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.” – Paulo Coelho
94. “There is one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says ‘yes’, you know he is crooked.” – Groucho Marx
95. “Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.” – James E. Faust
96. “May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
97. “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” – Oscar Wilde
98. “Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.” – Fred Rogers
99. “The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love, and loyalty.” – Zig Ziglar
100. “To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.” – Criss Jami
101. “No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
102. “The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.” – 14th Dalai Lama
103. “Let’s tell the truth to people. When people ask, ‘How are you?’ have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully.” – Maya Angelou
104. “Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.” – Mary Kay Ash
105. “When we are committed to honesty, we help reduce the level of misunderstanding, doubt, and fear throughout society.” – 14th Dalai Lama
106. “An honest man will sometimes repeat himself. A liar can always find a surprising new angle. The truth resembles itself.” – @TheStoicEmperor
107. “Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” – Maya Angelou
108. “If you can’t be honest with yourself, you can’t fix yourself. Admitting you have a problem is the first step for a good reason.” – Ed Latimore
109. “We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses to stay in our comfort zone.” – Roy T. Bennett
110. “Authenticity is powerful because it is, by definition, impossible to fake. To lead an authentic life is to lead a truly honest life.” – Ed Latimore
111. “Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.” – Ed McMahon
112. “If in day to day life you lead a good life, honestly, with love, compassion, and less selfishness, then automatically you will find peace.” – 14th Dalai Lama
113. “When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.” – Audre Lorde