Honesty Quotes

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Honesty quotes highlight the importance of this quality in maintaining one's authenticity.

Women usually seek for honesty in relationships and it's probably one of the building blocks of a strong relationship.

What's honesty to you? Is it a very important or the most important trait to you? Has being honest to yourself served as a guiding principle in your life? Is being honest to others a part of your life principles too?

I once heard that if someone is being honest to others at all times, then that person will have no worries about forgetting what was mentioned to others.

And in the words of Mark Twain, "If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."

If you're wondering about what dishonesty can bring to one, consider this advice by Tad Williams, "We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger."

May you find strength with these honesty quotes!

Be Silly. Be honest. Be kind.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.
-- Joseph Sugarman

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.
-- Brian Tracey

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

Honest hearts produce honest actions.
-- Brigham Young

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
-- Thomas Jefferson

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

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

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
-- Mark Twain

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
-- Mary MacCracken

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.
-- Paulo Coelho

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.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
-- Walter Anderson

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
-- Richard J. Needham

Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
-- Oliver Wendell

Slander cannot destroy an honest man - when the flood recedes the rock is there.
-- Chinese Proverbs

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.
-- James Allen

The truth needs so little rehearsal.
-- Barbara Kingsolver

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.
-- Robert Brault

Truth fears no questions.
-- Author Unknown

Walking your talk is a great way to motivate yourself. No one likes to live a lie. Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do.
-- Vince Poscente

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When in doubt, tell the truth.
-- Mark Twain

When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.
-- Pamela Ribon

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.
-- Bill Copeland

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