80+ Honesty Quotes That Will Remind You to Stay True
A clean mouth and an honest hand
Will take a man through any land.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.
One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
Where is the dignity unless there is honesty?
I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
I would replace the quality of sincerity with honesty, since one can hold a conviction sincerely without examining it, while honesty would require that one subject one's convictions to frequent scrutiny.
There is one way to find out if a man is honest. Ask him! If he says yes, you know he's crooked.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.
Honesty is being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
A true friend will tell you the truth to your face, not behind your back.
Dare to be true nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.
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
When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.
Who lies for you will lie against you.
Most of us are honest all the time, and all of us are honest most of the time.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on.
Honesty is all you need.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
A half truth is a whole lie.
Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
He is not an honest man who has burned his tongue and does not tell the company that the soup is hot.
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.
The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.
The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
When in doubt, tell the truth.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
An honest man is still an unmov'd rock,
Wash'd whiter, but not shaken with the shock:
Whose heart conceives no sinister device;
Fearless he plays with flames, and treads on ice.
The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.
