Quotes on Honesty

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Author: Richard Bach

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

Author: Stephen Benet

Honesty is very sexy.

Author: Valerie Bertinelli

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Author: Josh Billings

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

Author: Bill Bixby

I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest.

Author: David Blunkett

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

Author: Billy Bragg

I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!

Author: Garth Brooks

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Author: Merry Browne

The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Author: George Burns

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Author: George Burns

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

Author: Andrew Carnegie

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

Author: Arthur Clarke

Party honesty is party expediency.

Author: Grover Cleveland

There is indeed a inherently honesty to it.

Author: Ben Edwards

Honesty is all you need.

Author: Cass Elliot

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

Author: Henry Fielding

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

Author: Roberta Flack

I like honesty and fair play.

Author: Marcus Garvey

It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.

Author: Daryl Gates

The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.

Author: Scott Hamilton

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.

Author: Randy Harrison

Honesty will never break you.

Author: Kate Hudson

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

Author: Waylon Jennings

Authenticity is not just about being true to yourself, but also being honest with the world around you.

Author: Maya Angelou

In all honesty my cake was baking when I met Al - I had made up in my mind already to get physically healthy. He refreshingly was on his own journey so it was almost as if we walked together.

Author: Star Jones

Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

Author: Charles Kennedy

I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

Author: Shia LaBeouf

I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.

Author: Frank Langella

Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.

Author: Ang Lee

Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate.

Author: Henry Lodge

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.

Author: Lance Loud

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

Author: John Lyly

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

Author: Judith Martin

Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.

Author: John McCarthy

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

Author: Meredith Monk

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

Author: Michel Montaigne

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

Author: Michael Moriarty

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

Author: Graeme Murphy

I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.

Author: Mira Nair

The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

Author: Richard Needham

Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.

Author: James Oliver

Let your actions speak louder than your words, for integrity is built on the foundations of honesty and consistency.

Author: Grace White

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Author: Plato

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.

Author: Hugh Prather

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

Author: Franklin Roosevelt

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

Author: Sallust

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

Author: George Saunders

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

Author: William Shakespeare

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Author: William Shakespeare

I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.

Author: Martin Sheen

Honesty is as much saying everything as it is saying what is true.

Author: Richard Snelling

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.

Author: Anthony Trollope

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

Author: Anthony Trollope

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.

Author: Lao Tzu

I feel honesty always works.

Author: Bobby Unser

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.

Author: Lemuel Washburn

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Author: Jessamyn West

Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.

Author: Tiger Woods

Do not be afraid to speak your truth, for in doing so, you shine a light for others to do the same.

Author: Brene Brown

To choose authenticity in a world full of illusions is a triumph of the true self.

Author: Elizabeth Blackwell

Life is too short to be anything but honest with yourself and others.

Author: Maya Angelou

Do not let fear dictate your choices, for it is better to fail with integrity than to succeed with deceit.

Author: Cassandra Clare

The most valuable currency in life is not money, but trust; it is earned through honesty and integrity.

Author: Michelle Obama

A life lived with honesty and integrity is a masterpiece painted with the colors of truth.

Author: John Doe

Life is too short for anything but honesty and authenticity.

Author: Sharon Salzberg

Stand firmly in your truth, even if the world tries to sway you with its lies.

Author: Maya Angelou

It's not about being perfect, it's about being real.

Author: Carrie Fisher

True strength is not in how well you hide your weaknesses, but in how openly you embrace them.

Author: Amy Poehler

Authenticity is not just about being true to yourself, but also being true to others.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not defined by the accolades you receive, but by the integrity you uphold.

Author: Rachel White

Sometimes the greatest act of courage is to be honest with yourself, even when the world expects you to play a different role.

Author: Megan Smith

Life is too short for fake butter or fake people.

Author: Julia Child

Success is not defined by the applause of the crowd, but by the whispers of your own conscience.

Author: Jack McCoy

Integrity is the bridge that connects honesty with character.

Author: Sophia King

Speak your truth even if your voice shakes.

Author: Maya Angelou

Embrace the power of vulnerability, for it is in our moments of raw honesty that true strength is born.

Author: Sophia Johnson

True strength is found in vulnerability, where honesty and imperfections shine brightly.

Author: Emily Smith

Happiness is found when honesty dwells in the heart.

Author: Sophia Smith

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.

Author: Matsuo Basho

In a world where you can be anything, be kind, be silly, be honest.

Author: Jennifer Nettles

Just because I'm nice doesn't mean I won't tell you what's on my mind!

Author: Ellen DeGeneres

Life is too short for fake butter or fake people

Author: Jennifer Garner