80+ Honesty Quotes That Will Remind You to Stay True

H. L. Mencken Quote: It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

H. L. Mencken

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isn’t.

Don Williams Jr.

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

Rousseau

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Merry Browne

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

Bertrand Russell

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

John Lyly

Marcus Aurelius Quote: If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

Marcus Aurelius

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Abraham Lincoln

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful.

Edward R. Murrow

Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.

Emily Dickinson

Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.

William Feather

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. 

Henry David Thoreau

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Brigham Young

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.

Edgar J. Mohn

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

Mark Twain

Honesty is fearing a negative response and telling the truth anyway.

Michelle C. Ustaszeki

Friedrich Schiller Quote: Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Friedrich Schiller

The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.

R. D. Laing

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

Spencer Johnson

What is uttered from the heart alone, will win the hearts of others to your own.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Winston Churchill