Honesty in today’s world is regarded as something sort of naive and weak. It is not to cherished anymore. We constantly lie to people, relatives, friends and most importantly to ourselves.
We live in a world where we constantly masking our true selves to fit in society. It begs the question where we as a society have come that we can’t accept individuality. There is a set of standards that everyone has to meet for everything. Even a slight deviation of those expectations makes you socially unfit.
We have gathered a few honesty quotes to help you take the honest route and also put off that mask to live your true self. It is also for reminding you not to judge someone based on what society has taught you. Mankind has a lot more years left and it simply cannot progress with everyone being the same. Also, do share this awe-inspiring collection of honesty quotes amongst friends and family.
Honesty Quotes
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
– George Washington
You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.
– Alan Moore
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
– Abraham Lincoln
Living with integrity means: Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension.
– Barbara De Angelis
An honest man is believed without an oath, for his reputation swears for him.
– Anonymous
Don’t ever regret being honest.
– Taylor Swift
If you’re not honest with yourself, life will never be honest with you.
– Leigh Brackett
I could never be a politician, I have a problem of too often being honest.
– Carl R White
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.
– Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.
– William Faulkner
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
– Marcus Aurelius
Anything is better than lies and deceit!
– Leo Tolstoy
The trouble with most of us is that we’d rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
– Norman Vincent Peale
You cannot con an honest man.
– Anonymous
Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
– Khaled Hosseini
Hypocrites get offended by the truth.
– Jess C. Scott
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
– Thomas Jefferson
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
– Winston Churchill
Honest Quotes and Sayings
One word of truth outweighs the world.
– Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
– James E. Faust
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
– Spencer Johnson
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
– Barbara Kingsolver
It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
– Noël Coward
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
– Albert Einstein
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
– Oscar Wilde
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful.
– Edward R. Murrow
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
– Virginia Woolf
Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.
– George R.R. Martin
You can’t lie to your soul.
– Irvine Welsh
It is better to suffer for truth than to prosper by falsehood.
– Danish Proverbs
The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful.
– Laura Ingalls Wilder
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?
– John Steinbeck
If an offense comes out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
– Thomas Hardy
Famous Honesty Quotes
It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.
– Rick Riordan
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
– Victor Hugo
But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is… to tell the truth.
– Howard Zinn
Truth builds trust.
– Marilyn Suttle
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
– Thomas Carlyle
People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn’t stop you from having your own opinion.
– Anne Frank
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
– Abraham Lincoln
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
– Albert Einstein
You don’t always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.
– Anne Lamott
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
– John F. Kennedy
Aim not at being clever but at being true.
– Marty Rubin
Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.
– Mark Twain
Remember this: Seek the Truth. Once you find it hold on to it. Fight for it. Stand up for the truth even if you’re standing alone.
– Sara Francis
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
– Mark Twain
Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
– Michel de Montaigne
If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
– Gordon A. Eadie
Isn’t strength the ability to renounce every lie in your heart?
– Bisco Hatori
Honesty Quotes about Life
Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have truth in his heart, will always be blind to her.
– Suzy Kassem
When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.
– Criss Jami
You should not honor men more than truth.
– Plato
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
– François de La Rochefoucauld
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
– Marcus Aurelius
To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
– William Shakespeare
The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
– Nadine Gordimer
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
– Flannery O’Connor
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
– Edward Abbey
No one believes a liar. Even when she’s telling the truth.
– Sara Shepard
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
– Henry David Thoreau
Integrity is doing what is right and truthful, and doing as you say you would do.
– Roy T. Bennett
Lies sound like facts to those who’ve been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth.
– DaShanne Stokes
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
– David Foster Wallace
Always tell the truth. That way you don’t have to remember what you said.
– Mark Twain
Unfortunately, in today’s world a liar seems to be more reliable than a truthful honest man
– Munia Khan
When you walk a life of honesty, you live a life of truth.
– Therese Benedict
Honesty Quotes for Students
You’re only responsible for being honest, not for someone else’s reaction to your honesty.
– Kelli Jae Baeli
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
– Stephanie Klein
Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
– Leo Tolstoy
Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.
– Sarah Dessen
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is vicious.
– Henry Adams
The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.
– James Jones
Honest hearts produce honest actions.
– Brigham Young
If you are honest with yourself, your life will be so much more pleasant.
– Jessica Zafra
A liar should have a good memory.
– T.M. Logan
The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
– George Bernard Shaw
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
– Oscar Wilde
The truth cuts like the sharpest knife I’ve ever known.
– Tomi Adeyemi
In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.
– Robert McKee
A cynic is a person searching for an honest man with a stolen lantern.
– Edgar A. Shoaff
It is better to be honest than dishonest and better to be poor than rich if you must be dishonest to be rich.
– Byron Pulsifer
Honesty pays, but it doesn’t seem to pay enough to suit some people.
– Kin Hubbard
Children are the best inspiration. They love unconditionally, forgive easily, are brutally honest about how they feel and they have no sense of judgment or resentment.
– Rowena Cauba, Happiness
A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
– Mark Twain
Honesty is fearing a negative response and telling the truth anyway.
– Michelle C. Ustaszeski
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
– Mary MacCracken
Brutal Honesty Quotes
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
– George Orwell
Being honest and straightforward will also open doors for you.
– Les Brown
What happened to truth? Did it go out of style?
– Michael Jackson
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
– Mahatma Gandhi
It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
– Noël Coward
One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm, in the end, is the honest pursuit of the truth.
– Peter Kreeft
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
– Charles Dickens
Be honest in your life it creates positive energy, stopping all unfairness through life.
Fathima Bibi Joosab
It is not the lie that passes through the mind, but the lie that sinks in and settles in it, that does the hurt.
– Francis Bacon
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
A clear conscience is far more valuable than money.
– Anonymous
It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Always remember, everyone is hungry for praise and starving for honest appreciation!
– David Brandt Berg
Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.
– Sarah Dessen
An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.
– Mark Twain
Friendship is not threatened by honest criticism. It is strengthened.
– Charles Swindoll
Healthy relationships of all kinds are usually composed of honesty, trust, and respect.
– Ace McCloud
I would rather be damned by my honesty than caged by my lies.
– Omega Maverick
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
– Mark Twain
Quotes about Honesty and Integrity
I’m not mean, I’m honest. Nobody is ever straightforward. But sometimes people need to hear the truth.
– Jessica Warman
Honesty is always the best policy, even when it’s not the trend.
– Sean Covey
Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people.
– Warren Buffett
Staying silent is like a slow-growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself.
– Shannon L. Alder
The armor of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
– E.M. Forster
I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.
– Daniel Radcliffe
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
– Leo Tolstoy
Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.
– Dale Carnegie
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
– Mark Twain
Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
– James Altucher
It helps people to become honest when they are treated as honest.
– Elijah Mcleon
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
– Thomas Jefferson
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
No legacy is so rich as Honesty.
– William Shakespeare
A leader should maintain a level of honor and honesty that should be valued and maintained by all.
– Michele Morgan
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.
– John Lennon
The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
– Helen Keller
It still takes a serious commitment and honest effort for your goals to come to fruition.
– Alex Altman
Be Silly. Be honest. Be kind.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
– Mary Kay Ash
Honesty is only an illusion to those who seek their own selfish needs.
– Theodore Higgingsworth
Try to be honest with yourself first and then others. If you become honest and truthful to yourself, then it would be much more easier for you to be honest to others as well. The above list of honesty quotes is loaded with awesome and inspirational words of wisdom which surely will help you become a better person.
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