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 a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting.
Party honesty is party expediency.
Honesty is all you need.
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.
Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless.
Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.
Honesty is the best policy; the only way out is deeper in: a candid confrontation with existence is dizzying, liberating.
Honesty is something you can’t wear out.
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.
Honesty is the door to finding a love that brings an identity found only in Christ.
Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don’t want to be honest all the time.
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.
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.
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.
Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.
I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.
For me, honesty is a huge thing, and loyalty, when it comes to relationships.
It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.
Honesty is very sexy.
In my experience, honesty is the best policy. And being a friend to somebody is not always the best way to help them.
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.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
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.
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.
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.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
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.
Our armed forces, not our parliament of dunces, are our pride. Doubting our armed forces’ integrity and honesty is a disgraceful travesty.
Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.
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.
Honesty is love.
I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.
Honesty is always hip.
Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it’s also overrated.
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.
Honesty is the best policy.
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
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.
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.
Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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.