Honesty Quotes

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

~ Mark Twain

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

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

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

~ Salvador Dalí

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

~ Lao Tzu

Expressions of affection, like putting your arm around someone's shoulder, holding hands, or giving a kiss good night, involve the principle of honesty.

~ John Bytheway

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

~ Freeman Thomas

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

~ Plutarch

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

~ Samuel Johnson

Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil the devil was a liar from the beginning.

~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

~ Thomas Jefferson

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

~ Abu Bakr

There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

~ Frank Ocean

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

~ Adrienne Rich

You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and courage.

~ Robert E. Lee

Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.

~ Campbell Brown

The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.

~ Alexandra Fuller

My main trick is to work with amazing people. It's a long and twisty journey, and you need people that really are amazing and have this rare gift of honesty and courage and really open up.

~ Lucy Walker

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

You learn their honesty, you learn their competitiveness. You learn a lot about a person. It's not that they have to sink the putt and there's a great deal of talent involved - but you do learn about how competitive a person is on the golf course, and frankly, how honest.

~ Donald Trump

I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.

~ Tom Perrotta

The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.

~ Ellen Barkin

Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

~ Antonio Banderas

Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.

~ David A. Bednar

I don't think it's more difficult for actors to have a good marriage than anyone. I think, in the end, a really important component of any relationship is honesty, and it also comes down to luck.

~ Cate Blanchett

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

~ Charles Dickens

I think the thing about love is that even though the things around us change, we as human beings, a lot of the ways we interact, and the ways we love each other is timeless. It requires trust, honesty, commitment, romance, and physical chemistry.

~ John Legend

I like to see honesty out of people. People who are trustworthy. I like to see people who are involved with The Lord.

~ Ray Lewis

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

It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'

~ Malcolm Turnbull

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

I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.

~ Vijay Mallya

Party honesty is party expediency.

~ Grover Cleveland

Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.

~ Bradley Chicho

The NFL is a unique work place. There are no secrets anymore. Technology has taken over, and secrets are exposed. People are going to know what you're all about. You have to make sure you have real honesty in the work place, or you're going to be exposed.

~ Andy Reid

I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for honesty and a big heart.

~ Jason Derulo

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.

~ Louise Slaughter

While I am aware of no counsel on whether kissing should be reserved only for post-mission dating or courtship, I am aware of plenty of counsel concerning honesty in our actions and treating others with respect and kindness. Casual attitudes about expressions of affection such as kissing can cause much grief and heartache.

~ John Bytheway

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

~ Sallust

In all honesty, I grew up a certain way. I never had to worry about money... that was my reality.

~ Tori Spelling