Top 45 Honesty Is Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Honesty Is Quotes from famous people such as Ed McMahon, Richard Whately, Tom Stoppard, Grover Cleveland, Cass Elliot, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
Ed McMahon
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
Richard Whately
Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting.
Tom Stoppard
Party honesty is party expediency.
Grover Cleveland
Honesty is all you need.
Cass Elliot
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
Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless.
David Whyte
Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.
J. G. Ballard
Honesty is the best policy; the only way out is deeper in: a candid confrontation with existence is dizzying, liberating.
David Shields
Honesty is something you can’t wear out.
Waylon Jennings
I’m such a fan of actors and also enjoy watching them work so that I can help their acting in any way I can. Sometimes it walks a tricky line because you want to be entertaining to some degree. But honesty is always entertaining to me. I’m a big Woody Allen and Spike Lee fan, and I find their films to be very honest.
Dito Montiel
Honesty is the door to finding a love that brings an identity found only in Christ.
Israel Houghton
Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don’t want to be honest all the time.
Dan Ariely
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
I just don’t think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn’t even think about it.
Randy Harrison
No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.
Charles Comiskey
Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.
Mark Twain
I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.
Harvey S. Firestone
For me, honesty is a huge thing, and loyalty, when it comes to relationships.
Lauren Jauregui
It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.
Patrick Kavanagh
Honesty is very sexy.
Valerie Bertinelli
In my experience, honesty is the best policy. And being a friend to somebody is not always the best way to help them.
Jillian Michaels
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
Margaret Fuller
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Mary Kay Ash
In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
Gerald R. Ford
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
A lot of people have said that I’m super-snarky and mean. But honesty is the only way to get people to change. It’s very important to be constructively critical – give people alternatives and you’re giving them a new way to see themselves.
Stacy London
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
George Bernard Shaw
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
Our armed forces, not our parliament of dunces, are our pride. Doubting our armed forces’ integrity and honesty is a disgraceful travesty.
Victor Banerjee
Anything well written with good language and clarity an

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.
Michael Moriarty
People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
Ma Ying-jeou
Honesty is love.
Andy Dunn
I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.
Summer Altice
Honesty is always hip.
Patty Smyth
Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it’s also overrated.
Karan Johar
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
Anthony Trollope
Honesty is the best policy.
Benjamin Franklin
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
James E. Faust
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
Plato
The problem is that even as you reveal the mysteries in your past, you are accumulating them in the present; complete honesty is the stuff of post-mortem, not autobiography.
Andrew Solomon
Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness.
David Whyte
Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
Michel de Montaigne
What I actually do put much more weight on, in all honesty, is not being critically acclaimed – it’s being respected by my OGs. When I talk to E-40 on the phone, every time I talk to him, I’m like, you know, if he tells me I’m doing good, I’m doing good.
G-Eazy