Top 100 Honesty Is Quotes
#1. When truth and honesty is successfully intertwined into the business world of a nation, the result is a boost in commerce.
Sunday Adelaja
#2. Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
Gertrude Stein
#3. Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
William Hazlitt
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. You want to be entertaining to some degree. But honesty is always entertaining to me.
Dito Montiel
#7. Honesty is probably the sexiest thing a man can give to a woman.
Debra Messing
#8. 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
#9. Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city ...
Samuel R. Delany
#10. A lot of people have said that I'm super-snarky and mean. But honesty is the only way to get people to change. It's very important to be constructively critical - give people alternatives and you're giving them a new way to see themselves.
Stacy London
#11. Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Spencer Johnson
#12. Self-honesty is absolutely necessary in the practice of Buddhism.
Frederick Lenz
#13. Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.
Michael Moriarty
#14. Honesty is the biggest thing I admire, respect, and look for. And it's something that's kind of disappearing in some people nowadays.
Mats Sundin
#15. 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
#16. Show me a culture where honesty is considered ridiculous, where nobody's ever accountable for anything, where anger gets admired as a sign of strength, and I'll show you a place where misery is permanent
Anthony Steyning
#17. It seems so odd to me, an odyssey
How honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us
Its astonishing.
Asher Roth
#19. The most dangerous person ever to deceive is yourself, for in doing so you destroy your basis for honesty. Honesty is the foundation of intelligence, while dishonesty is the foundation of stupidity.
Orest Stocco
#20. Before you place your financial future in the hands of an adviser, it's imperative that you find someone who not only makes you comfortable but whose honesty is beyond reproach.
Benjamin Graham
#21. Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
Plato
#22. 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
#23. Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards.
Kerry Stokes
#24. Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.
J. William Schickel
#25. 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
#27. Honesty is doing what you know or believe is right. Integrity is doing what is right and truthful.
Roy Bennett
#28. Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.
Garrison Keillor
#29. Honesty is a most dreadful quality - it makes people difficult to manipulate,
Ashwin Sanghi
#30. Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
Mark Twain
#32. Honesty is not just keeping your ass away from people but also clean.
M.F. Moonzajer
#33. A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more.
T. Boone Pickens
#34. Honesty is a gift we can give to others. It is also a source of power and an engine of simplicity.
Sam Harris
#35. Not trust. There is none.
Not honesty. Honesty is a farce.
And definitely not love. Love was the greatest ruse of all. Designed to trap and enslave and ultimately destroy.
Elisabeth Naughton
#36. Honesty is not the best policy in life. Only, perhaps, in art.
Salman Rushdie
#37. Honesty is the mother of confidence; it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration; it destroys confidence; it brings social chaos ...
Robert Green Ingersoll
#38. I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.
Randy Harrison
#40. The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#41. Above any commercial success one might enjoy, one's reputation for honesty is the most important thing
George Carman
#42. 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
#43. They laughed together then until the woman's features turned somber. "Thank you for not lying about what you thought of my appearance. You might have a face to turn my hair white, but your honesty is handsome.
Grace Draven
#44. I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.
Summer Altice
#45. Honesty is the most beautiful gift a person can give to another at the beginning of a friendship.
Kai Meyer
#47. *I love climbing mountains in all fields (Whatever was this fields).
*I love tranquility and it is more for me precious than money.
*Honesty is a few valuable nowadays.
after willing of God and Step by step with Concentration i will achieve What I want to.
Charles Dickens
#49. Honesty is admired, and starves.
Juvenal
#50. I think brutal honesty is extremely important. Don't be afraid of being up-front about your feelings and your life.
Minka Kelly
#51. I've realized I have to be very careful in what I say. I speak my heart out. Such honesty is not appreciated in the film industry. Instead, it is twisted and distorted. A lot of what I say is lost in translation.
Sonam Kapoor
#52. Honesty is too strong a drink to be unwatered all the time; rather it should be given in doses.
Richard Sapir
#53. If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don't have to be perfect and, moreover, we don't have to pretend to be perfect.
Donald Miller
#54. The Germans love frankness and honesty. It is so convenient to be frank and honest. This confidingness, this complacence, this showing the cards of German honesty, is probably the most dangerous and most successful disguise which the German is up to nowadays.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#55. Honesty is a big deal, and when your honest everything will fall into place.
Gabrielle Dennis
#56. Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.
Dave Van Ronk
#57. 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
#58. Honesty is not necessarily interesting. I don't want to hear about your dreams or your acid trips, probably unless you make them really interesting.
Anne Lamott
#61. Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
James Altucher
#62. Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals.
Gretel Ehrlich
#63. The badge of honesty is simplicity.
Novalis
#64. To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.
Mahatma Gandhi
#65. It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
Anthony Trollope
#66. Honesty is not only a gift to other people--it's a gift to yourself.
Lorna Kelly
#67. But honesty is not always the best policy, no matter what the Boy Scouts may tell you. So I just shook my head at his inane question. "Too soon to tell," I said.
Jeff Lindsay
#70. Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.
Billy Joel
#71. Honesty is incompatible with amassing a large fortune.
Mahatma Gandhi
#72. You look like shit." Honesty is important in any relationship.
Gordon Andrews
#73. When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself. Tell him it is not the best way; that you have tried it. Tell him as the man did in Maine when his boy left home: "John, honesty is the best policy; I have tried both."
Robert Green Ingersoll
#75. Honesty is the only trick to not trick anyone.
Shawn Lukas
#76. Practice is invaluable ... honesty is indispensable ...
Stephen King
#78. 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
#79. I happen to believe that there are a lot of good poets around at present, but a poet like Alex Kuo, who possesses a highly developed moral sense and a bitter honesty, is rare at any time and especially in this time. We need him.
Carolyn Kizer
#80. Don't make misrepresentations to anyone you deal with. If you believe the other person may have misunderstood you, correct any misunderstanding you find exists. Honesty is integral to ethical behavior, and trustworthiness is essential for good, lasting relationships.
Buck Rodgers
#81. Honesty is the greatest fruit one can find in a person.
Rudzani Ralph
#83. Remember that becoming people of integrity and honesty is not simply a matter of more personal determination, more grit, and more willpower; rather, it is accomplished through the enabling power of the Atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ.
David A. Bednar
#84. We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#85. True honesty is what you are willing to admit to yourself without judgement!
Pollyanna Darling
#86. Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.
Sean Covey
#87. Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless.
David Whyte
#88. Honesty is the knife with which we carve our paths. Sometimes we cut ourselves or others in the process.
E.S. Moxon
#89. Because I don't know whether honesty is better than happiness. Do we sacrifice honesty in order to be happy?
Samantha Shannon
#90. Honesty is the key to Happiness.
Be always truthful to yourself, to
your feelings, emotions, needs and
desires & to others, no matter what!
Lily Amis
#91. Whoever claimed honesty is the best policy, or even a good one, clearly had very limited experience with the real world.
Jeff Lindsay
#92. Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it.
John Ruskin
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present moment, not to the past, not to the future.
Rajneesh
#98. Honesty is like seeing a crackhead up close: it ain't that fucking attractive.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#99. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
George Washington
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