50 Honesty Quotes – Why Brutal Honesty Is Best
Looking for the best honesty quotes? These 50 epic honesty quotes will show you what true honesty is all about.
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So without further ado, here are the 50 honesty quotes – embrace these and enjoy!
HONESTY QUOTES
1 – Every lie is two lies, the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it. Robert Brault
2 – Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson
3 – A half truth is a whole lie. Yiddish Proverb
4 – Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure. James Altucher
5 – Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind. B.C. Forbes
6 – Healthy relationships of all kinds are usually composed of honesty, trust, and respect. Ace McCloud
7 – Leading your life honestly and truthfully will create trust and friendship. Dalai Lama
8 – If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. Mark Twain
9 – Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. Khaled Hosseini
10 – Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth. Kenneth H. Blanchard
HONESTY QUOTES
11 – When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. Khaled Hossein
12 – Living with integrity means: Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Barbara De Angelis
13 – Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself. William Shakespeare
14 – You can fool people some of the time, but you can’t fool them all of the time. Aesop
15 – Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. Oscar Wilde
16 – What radical honesty just means is that I want to be free. Part of being free means that I can say what I think and think what I say. Naval Ravikant
17- The real source of inner joy is to remain truthful and honest. Dalai Lama
18 – Friendship is not threatened by honest criticism. It is strengthened. Charles Swindoll
19 – I admire honesty more than any other trait. Jerry Reinsdorf
20 – Brutal, inner honesty… The three scariest words on the planet, and yet, at the same time, the very key that unlocks all the doors. Ken Dahl
HONESTY QUOTES
21 – Honest people don’t hide their deeds. Emily Brontë
22 – Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it. Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Timothy Keller
23 – All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. John Quincy Adams
24 – There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. Charles Dickens
25 – Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people. Warren Buffett
26 – Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. Mary Kay Ash
27- Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying. Fred Rogers
28 – Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. Albert Einstein
29 – If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. Virginia Woolf
30 – Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the rule he knows and feels to be right. Samuel Smiles
HONESTY QUOTES
31 – Honesty has a power that very few people can handle. Steven Aitchison
32 – Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. Sigmund Freud
33 – Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. Spencer Johnson
34 – Honesty is the best policy. English Proverb
35 – Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children. Oliver Wendell
36 -Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen. Brené Brown
37- Just like showing trust is essential in a marriage, it is also of vital significance to be completely honest with each other. Christian Olsen
38 – We are franker towards others than towards ourselves. Friedrich Nietzsche
39 – A clear conscience is far more valuable than money. Proverb
40 – Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. Mother Teresa
HONESTY QUOTES
41 – It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business. Mahatma Gandhi
42 – A good conscience is a continual Christmas. Benjamin Franklin
43 – 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
44 – Be honest in your life, it creates positive energy, stopping all unfairness through life. Fathima Bibi Joosab
45 – Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. James E. Faust
46 – Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn’t make you nice, it just makes you a liar. Jenny O’Connell
47- One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards. Susan Cain
48 – Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones. John Lennon
49 – Honesty is the key to unlocking the door to trust and genuine connection. It lays the foundation for meaningful relationships and personal growth. Jeremiah Say
50 – We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square. Michelle Obama
BONUS: Sometimes it is more difficult to be honest with yourself than to try to please other people by saying what they want to hear. Gerard Strong
BONUS: Confidence grows from being honest with myself because I know my strengths, weaknesses, capabilities and I am realistic and honest about what I can do. Patricia A Gilpin-Hudson
Much love,
Frances Vidakovic
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