Top 100 Best Honesty Quotes
#1. Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city ...
Samuel R. Delany
#2. If you want sympathy, look for a friend, but if you want honesty, an enemy might be the best friend you ever had.
Tonya Hurley
#3. Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.
Kelly Rowland
#4. Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
Louisa May Alcott
#5. Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
Mark Twain
#6. With honesty and a little digging, we have the opportunity to identify our gifts and harness them in the service of our best self - our own unique noble purpose.
Tom Hayes
#8. Some people will tell you that honesty is the best policy, but I disagree. In instances like this, I fully believe that feigned ignorance is the best policy.
Leila Sales
#9. When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.
Betty Dodson
#10. I believe the best test of our integrity and honesty is when we personally enforce in our own lives that which ultimately cannot be enforced.
David A. Bednar
#11. We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#13. Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.
William Lyon Phelps
#14. Honesty is not the best policy in life. Only, perhaps, in art.
Salman Rushdie
#15. Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.
Robert Greene
#16. Honesty, while painful at times, was the best thing we could do for each other.
S.C. Stephens
#17. As to the permanent interest of individuals in the aggregated interests of the community, and in the proverbial maxim, that honesty is the best policy, present temptation is often found to be an overmatch for those considerations.
James Madison
#18. Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
Margaret Fuller
#19. Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.
George Washington
#20. There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition; there are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.
Mark Twain
#21. The love of science, and the energy and honesty in the pursuit of science, in the best of the Aryan races do seem to correspond in a remarkable way to the love of conduct, and the energy and honesty in the pursuit of conduct, in the best of the Semitic.
Matthew Arnold
#22. I think love can be really tough. Because it involves ultimately an honesty to the nth degree that you are capable of. Once said, you've lost your deposit. It's best if you don't say it.
John Hurt
#23. Honesty is the best policy because there can be nothing less.
Robert Monroe
#24. The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#25. The single best thing about honesty is that it requires no follow-up.
Rachel Maddow
#27. I want to change how women think of and feel about marketing. It not only helps women get the results they want, but marketing brings out our best human attributes: true listening, compassion, honesty, and a spirit of service.
Marie Forleo
#28. The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.
Adam DeVine
#29. If you're honest with yourself as a writer, trying to tell the best story you can, your story will be an honest one. And your values will come out, no matter how hard you try to disguise them.
Joe Clifford Faust
#30. I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
George Bernard Shaw
#31. Whoever claimed honesty is the best policy, or even a good one, clearly had very limited experience with the real world.
Jeff Lindsay
#32. Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.
Walter Lippmann
#33. In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
Kapil Dev
#34. The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
Robert E.Lee
#35. Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.
Miguel De Cervantes
#36. I think you can just go out and try to be the best you can be, deal with people with respect, with honesty, with integrity, have a high moral standard. I've always really tried to exemplify that as an athlete. I'll continue to try to do that.
Tom Brady
#37. Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy.
Ian McKellen
#38. My deep belief is that all of us have the same lifelong work: to learn honesty, courage, and love. To learn, in other words, how to be our best selves.
Martha Beck
#39. Uplift & Inspire, do not be envious of others success. You are given the same hours in a day. Make it worthwhile! Instead of focusing on what someone else is doing, pay attention to how you're living and make the best of life
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#40. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
George Washington
#41. Despite your best efforts, not everyone wants to be helped. Make a difference where you can and be at peace with the rest.
Gary Hopkins
#42. It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.
George Washington
#43. So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.
Roberto Bolano
#44. I had often wondered how to best decolonize my people ... It must be done one human being at a time. Without that kind of help, Western society does not allow people to come to terms with their feelings. With honesty and therapy, my people can be made whole again.
Russell Means
#45. I guess we speak pretty loosely, don't we, about looking forward to the Ashes and all that - and we are, but it's not with both eyes. We've got one eye on that and one eye on what we need to get in place to make sure we're the best team we can be for November.
Ricky Ponting
#48. Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.
Henry David Thoreau
#49. I'd say honesty is always the best policy. There are always a lot of arguments - but even if honesty starts some, it avoids bigger ones.
Penn Dayton Badgley
#50. Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.
Mark Twain
#51. In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
Gerald R. Ford
#52. Communication works best when we combine appropriateness with authenticity, finding that sweet spot where opinions are not brutally honest but delicately honest.
Sheryl Sandberg
#53. The man who believes that honesty is the best policy is not an honest man.
Paul Hoffman
#54. If you don't find the right set of eyes to see through your bull, you will always be surrounded by friends that will tell you white lies because they like your company and don't want to ruin the evening.
Shannon L. Alder
#55. In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.
Edward Abbey
#56. In all honesty, I didn't love reading when I was a kid. I'd rather be running around in the woods or doing my best to scare the pants off all the children in the neighborhood by pretending my house was haunted or making them play Bloody Mary in the bathroom.
Jennifer McMahon
#57. The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.
Rachel Maddow
#58. I am sure you will be guided right in your decision, to place implicit faith in his integrity and honesty. Best wishes from one who has known Richard longer than anyone else. His mother
Hannah Milhous Nixon
#59. But do we know how to make love stay?'
I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.
Tom Robbins
#60. Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
Dean Inge
#61. Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
George Carlin
#62. If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.
Noam Chomsky
#63. What will you tell him?"
"The truth."
Fortismer thinks about that.
"Yes," he says at last. "Probably the best thing. Bloody deceptive, honesty.
Nick Harkaway
#64. If you can look yourself in the mirror at the end of each day, knowing that you did your best, or helped someone out, or took the high road and acted with integrity, then that is an awesome day!
Beth Ramsay
#65. Honesty is, honestly, the best policy," said Saracen. "But when honesty doesn't work, lie, and lie convincingly.
Derek Landy
#66. I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.
Christina Aguilera
#68. Honesty has become the second best policy with your spouse ... discretions apply elsewhere
Amit Abraham
#69. Honesty is not always the best
policy when it hurts the
person you care about the
most and pushes them away.
Alison G. Bailey
#70. As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.
John McCain
#71. Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun ... and you'll have no regrets.
Byrd Baggett
#72. The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
Criss Jami
#73. The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
Arthur C. Clarke
#75. Yeah, well you know what they say. Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
Stacy Mantle
#76. In assisting his 'neighbour' every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.
Robert Baden-Powell
#77. People are free to find out the best and the worst of me!
Henry James
#78. Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
Richard Whately
#79. You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.
Orison Swett Marden
#80. Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#82. Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.
James A. Garfield
#84. Honesty is the best policy. But insanity is a hell of a lot more effective in court. So your set, McMullen
Lois Greiman
#86. From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is the best policy?]
John Harington
#87. Honesty's the best policy. - Miguel de Cervantes Liars prosper. - Anonymous
Stephen King
#88. Indeed, there was a frankness in his face, an honesty, and an undisguised show of his pride in her, and his love for her, which were, to me, the best of good looks.
Charles Dickens
#89. I like to write about people who are real and likeable. I like to write about people who tell their stories in that close and intimate voice we use with best friends. I love the closeness and honesty and vulnerability that come from characters who can talk that way.
Katherine Center
#90. People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
Ma Ying-jeou
#91. Wherever you work, work hard and educate yourself continuously. You must never forget social welfare, ethics and honesty. However, there is no guarantee for your career progression. Therefore, don't expect that only the best people will be promoted.
Eraldo Banovac
#92. My request was for courage. To turn and face the thing that scares you the most and do your best to stay there. I asked for honesty, which sometimes requires more strength than most things we do in our lives.
Sara Bareilles
#93. Honesty is the best policy in international relations, interpersonal relations, labor, business, education, family and crime control because truth is the only thing that works and the only foundation on which lasting relations can build.
Ramsey Clark
#95. In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.
W. Somerset Maugham
#96. Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?
C.S. Lewis
#97. I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.
Mira Nair
#98. When we lose twenty pounds ... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty.
Woody Allen
#99. Honesty is the best Policy is the Capitalistic thought as it gives free of cost Security to their assets and to their investments........
Tarif Naaz
#100. Do not except anything as love without truth because love and truth have always been best friends.
Shannon L. Alder
