Top 100 Honesty Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”

— Mark Twain

52. “I try to keep it real. I don’t have time to worry about what I’m projecting to the world. I’m just busy being myself.”

— Demi Lovato

53. “Leadership is about integrity, honesty and accountability. All components of trust.”

— Simon Sinek

54. “You should not honor men more than truth.”

— Plato

55. “I want to believe as many true things and as few false things as possible.”

— Matt Dillahunty

56. “Trust, honesty, humility, transparency and accountability are the building blocks of a positive reputation. Trust is the foundation of any relationship.”

— Mike Paul

57. “Tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember a story.”

— John Wooden

58. “Truth will ultimately prevail where there are pains to bring it to light.”

— George Washington

59. “Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward – get real with yourself.”

— Bryant McGill

60. “My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.”

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Edward R. Murrow

62. “Honesty is always the best policy.”

— George Washington

63. “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”

— Virginia Woolf

64. “Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.”

— Zig Ziglar

65. “You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

66. “Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.”

— Vernon Howard

67. “A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.”

— Albert Camus

68. “If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.”

— Tom Hanks

69. “Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don't expect it from cheap people.”

— Warren Buffett

70. “The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.”

— Zig Ziglar

71. “I’m not a handsome guy, but I can give my hand to someone who needs help. Beauty is in the heart, not in the face.”

— Abdul Kalam

72. “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

73. “Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

74. “Honesty and openness are always the foundation of insightful dialogue.”

— Bell Hooks

75. “Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

76. “Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.”

— Ayn Rand

77. “The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”

— Ernest Hemingway

78. “Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character not only such qualities as honesty and truthfulness, but courage, perseverance and self-reliance.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

79. “If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.”

— Ziggy Marley

80. “I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

81. “When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

— Audre Lorde

82. “Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.”

— Aristotle

83. “And we need to share our story. Not with everyone but with someone. There is someone who is like you were. And he or she needs to know what God can do. Your honest portrayal of your past may be the courage for another’s future.”

— Max Lucado

84. “Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life – all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.”

— Zig Ziglar

85. “Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”

— W. Clement Stone

86. “Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.”

— Thomas A. Edison

87. “Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.”

— Max Frisch

88. “And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”

— Khaled Hosseini

89. “There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.”

— Ronald Reagan

90. “No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

91. “When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed.”

— Ayn Rand

92. “A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”

— Ernest Hemingway

93. “A promise made is a debt unpaid.”

— Robert W. Service

94. “Integrity has no need of rules.”

— Albert Camus

95. “The love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion.”

— Marianne Williamson

96. “All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

97. “The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

98. “Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.”

— James Anthony Froude

99. “When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

100. “A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”

— Benjamin Franklin