Honesty Quotes:


  • I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it
    --Lee Iacocca
  • Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and say, Sir, I made an honest mistake.
    --H. L. Mencken
  • I am a big believer in the 'mirror test.' All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.
    --John McKay
  • Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
    --Mahatma Gandhi
  • Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
    --F. M. Hubbard
  • Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.
    --Thomas Jefferson
  • Be Silly. Be honest. Be kind.
    --Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • There is no such thing as a man willing to be honest that would be like a blind man willing to see.
    --F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger
    --Franklin P. Jones
  • If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
    --Unknown
  • The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
    --Arthur C. Clarke
  • I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
    --George Washington