Top 20 Honest People Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Honest People Quotes from famous people such as Chanakya, Amber Rudd, Michel Martelly, Marvin Hamlisch, Woody Hayes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are c

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
Chanakya
Most of the people I came across in the finance and business world were honest people, doing the best for their staff and for their family. But I encountered many who weren’t.
Amber Rudd
International donors, our friends, should demand results; impose results. The fact of giving money is not helping if you give money to honest people and there is no structure to manage that money. It is not helping.
Michel Martelly
Barbra Streisand is without a doubt one of the most honest people I have ever known. There is no doubt in my mind that she will not be doing any more concerts. Of course, she still will be making records and starring and directing in movies.
Marvin Hamlisch
I don’t like nice people. I like tough, honest people.
Woody Hayes
Kids are more rewarding than anything in life. They are the most enthusiastic, honest people in the world. And so beautiful. They look at me like an old friend.
Jim Nabors
Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.
Elihu Root
I think there are a lot of honest people doing honest business on online auctions. But the control on these Web sites is pretty minimal.
Dan Butler
I love football now. I have a club in Sarajevo, and I love that. The fans are fantastic. The people who run the club are incredible, honest people, and they really motivate me.
Vincent Tan
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser’s passion, not the thief s.
William Blake
False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
Joseph de Maistre
I like Scottish people because they feel very true. They’re always level and straight. They get a reputation for being hardened because of it, but I find them to be scrupulously honest people.
Rupert Friend
I don’t really like being recognised, to be honest. People say nice things and stuff, but I’m not really in it for that side of things. I just want to play music.
Rag’n’Bone Man
Because, if I’m honest, people in the white world might be appalled, but in the black world, they’re making myths out of me. And I know that ain’t the life.
John Singleton
The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
Adolf Loos
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
Anatole France
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
Charles Caleb Colton
My problem is being brutally honest. People don’t like that.
Christian Laettner
We Montanans take pride in our low crime rate and believe honest people can disagree without being disagreeable. Maybe extremist groups believe they can find a home in Montana because of our easygoing ways.
Max Baucus
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
Charles Caleb Colton