Honesty is a facet of moral character that connotes positive and virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, straightforwardness, including straightforwardness of conduct, along with the absence of lying, cheating, theft, etc. Honesty also involves being trustworthy, loyal, fair, and sincere.

The very Best "Honesty Quotes"

“A true friend will tell you the truth to your face - not behind your back.”

“What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.”

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”

“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”

“No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.”

“Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.”

“Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.”

“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”

“Honest hearts produce honest actions.”

“If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to”

“To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.”

“There's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, all forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.”

“Every act of dishonesty has at least two victims: the one we think of as the victim, and the perpetrator as well. Each little dishonesty makes another little rotten spot somewhere in the perpetrator's psyche.”

“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”

“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”

“Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.”

“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”

“Slander cannot destroy an honest man - when the flood recedes the rock is there”

“He who is passionate and hasty, is generally honest; it is your cool dissembling hypocrite, of whom you should beware”

“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.”

“Honesty: The best of all the lost arts”

“Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense”

“The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.”

“Every one of us lives his life just once; if we are honest, to live once is enough”

“Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is the end of it”

“I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who”

“Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; Steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for a trickster and catch him at first attempt, but beware of an honest man”

“Honest people are easily deceived”

“An honest man's word is as good as his bond.”

“One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.”

“We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy”

“The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.”

“I am a lie who always speaks the truth.”

“Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.”

“The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.”

“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens”

“Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.”

“I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.”

“It pays to be honest, but it's slow pay”

“No honest man will argue on every side”