Top 380 Honesty Quotes

For me, honesty is a huge thing, and loyalty, when it comes to relationships.
Lauren Jauregui
I feel honesty always works.
Bobby Unser
Seek out a personal coach or mentor in the workplace. He/she should push you when you need it by encouraging and motivating you. Don’t be afraid of their honesty.
Cathy Engelbert
That’s the power of the good con artist: the ability to identify your deepest need and exploit it. It’s not about honesty or greed; we are all suckers for belief.
Maria Konnikova
If you think something’s funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.
Olivia Munn
My career is based on openness and honesty.
Kim Kardashian
Honesty I can take. Lies I get upset about.
Glen Campbell
Trump’s behavior is conscienceless, showing utter disregard for the safety of others, consistent irresponsibility, callousness, cynicism and disrespect of other human beings. Contempt for truth and honesty, and for norms, rules and laws. A complete inability to feel remorse, or guilt.
George T. Conway III
I’m God’s chosen child. I don’t worry or carry anything extra to feel the strength. I’ve always felt the power of God beside me. Your strength lies in instilling honesty, truth, and sincerity in you.
Rohit Shetty
Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.
Freeman Thomas
I’ve always been very honest about what’s good and bad in my writing. That honesty might have made me sound arrogant sometimes, when I was talking about work I thought was good.
Martin McDonagh
I can’t think of any shows I’ve watched about teenagers that has the same spirit that ‘Skins’ has, the same honesty about it.
Hannah Murray
I don’t believe in honesty at all costs.
Ruth Westheimer
We at the NRA embrace and hold dear what makes us uniquely American. Family, responsibility, patriotism, mutual respect, honesty, civic duty.
Wayne LaPierre
I believe in working with full honesty.
Mimi Chakraborty
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and courage.
Robert E. Lee
It’s about communication. It’s about honesty. It’s about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don’t try to give them half the story. You don’t try to hide the story. You treat them as – as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
Most writers write from their own experiences. That is where the honesty and intensity of emotions come from.
Ravi Subramanian
Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.
John Gerzema
A life in politics is for people who know themselves and know where their own line is between loyalty and honesty.
Nicolle Wallace
Wealth is a thing, earned with honesty and justice. Its opposite is the Mammon of unrighteousness.
Dayananda Saraswati
Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.
David A. Bednar
When a stranger comes into our presence, then, first appearances are likely to enable us to anticipate his category and attributes, his ‘social identity’ – to use a term that is better than ‘social status’ because personal attributes such as ‘honesty’ are involved, as well as structural ones, like ‘occupation.’
Erving Goffman
In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go.
Michael Berryman
More precious is want with honesty than wealth with infamy.
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
I’m very humbled by the fact that I do have so much to say, and I just hope that my walk, my honesty, will make a difference for people and maybe motivate them.
Jenifer Lewis
I love Pink and Nelly Furtado – the honesty and truth in their lyrics. I also love Kendrick Lamar and Chance the Rapper.
Dua Lipa
Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
Dennis Prager
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
We try to instill a sense of fair play, a sense of honesty.
Jesse White
When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.
J. G. Ballard
Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone – and hurt them to the bone – you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.
Dave Van Ronk
Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.
Lance Loud
I started to feel songwriting was pulling different pieces of my heart out – the more I started writing, the more there was honesty.
Calum Scott
I know a lot of artists and chefs don’t talk about this, but sometimes you just don’t get to the finish line. That honesty and tenderness is something we’re kind of not supposed to express.
Roy Choi
I like to see the joy in people’s’ faces. I like to see when they actually question that I’m not afraid to answer and give them my respect and honesty with what I have to say to them.
Charles Bradley
If you’re a student that likes to, you know – that wants to go into the trades and have an incredible job, and you’re a student that loves the electricity or whatever it may be, in all honesty, a lot of times when you walk the halls people may – other kids may look down on you a little bit. It’s not fair. It’s not right.
Jim Justice
My dad likes my honesty and has always stood by me due to that.
Suniel Shetty
Eminem has been someone that I’ve always considered the greatest ever, to ever do it. You know what I mean? In every aspect, the storytelling abilities, lyrical ability, honesty. You can hear it in my music that I’m heavily influenced by that.
Joyner Lucas
Although it may be true that the notion of teaching virtues such as honesty or integrity arouses little controversy, it is also true that vague consensus on the goodness of these virtues conceals a great deal of actual disagreement over their definitions.
Lawrence Kohlberg
I can claim with total honesty that no home minister has visited Kashmir as many times as I have.
Rajnath Singh
Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
Jackie Robinson
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
Richard Bach
David Mamet’s writing is pretty spectacular, obviously. I like the honesty of it; I like how funny it is and how sad it is.
T. R. Knight
The number one thing I look for is personality. For me, the personality of someone makes them more and more attractive over time … and for those with bad personalities, less and less attractive. I look for honesty, intelligence, kindness, and a good work ethic, to name a few.
Manika
Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
Stephen Vincent Benet
Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.
Samuel E. Morison
Loyalty and honesty, those are important.
Willian
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dali
Do what is right… do it with honesty and vigor. Be creative – that’s important. Don’t follow what other people are doing.
John Gokongwei
Honesty is about the scars. It’s about the blemishes. But it’s more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It’s about truly helping people.
James Altucher
I’ve realized I have to be very careful in what I say. I speak my heart out. Such honesty is not appreciated in the film industry. Instead, it is twisted and distorted. A lot of what I say is lost in translation.
Sonam Kapoor
In every role that I do – whether I’m a teacher, actor or mentor – I do it with total dedication and as much honesty as I feel is required because there’s no alternative to honesty and hard work.
Anupam Kher
While I do my work with a sense of honesty, I tell myself, ‘What is the worst that can happen? I fail, right?’ So, will I stop living after that? No. I will try again.
Taapsee Pannu
Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.
Vidya Balan
That became the Netflix culture: radical honesty.
Marc Randolph
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
Empathy is important, openness, honesty, and an understanding for others.
Niko Kovac
Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.
Lemuel K. Washburn
In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author… I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.
Leslie Banks
I liked Trump’s honesty because it was different and had a chance to change the business of politics. What I didn’t realize he was missing at the time was a complete and utter lack of preparation, knowledge, and common sense.
Mark Cuban
I think the best writing is full of honesty and conviction. A lot of people are afraid to reveal much of themselves.
Sam Fender