As honesty is the fundamental building block for trust in relationships, I think you’ll find a review of these honesty quotes and captions worthwhile.
Read on.
Best Honesty Quotes
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John Ruskin
Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Albert Einstein
Truth builds trust.
Marilyn Suttle
If you’re not honest with the world, you can’t really be honest with yourself.
Joe Norman
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Charles Spurgeon
Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
James Altucher
Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
Friedrich Schiller
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends, but it’ll always get you the right ones.
John Lennon
Good Sayings on Being Honest
These inspirational honesty quotes tell it like it is.
Life comes down to honesty and doing what’s right. That’s what’s most important.
Bob Feller
We have a set of core values. Honesty, respect.
Urban Meyer
Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.
Albert Camus
I strive for honesty because I think that’s where the funniest stuff comes from.
Romesh Ranganathan
Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that’s probably the biggest key to success.
Taylor Lautner
Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
The honest man falls prey to guilt and conscience far more often than the dishonest one even when he has acted honorably.
Kapil Gupta
Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression.
B.C. Forbes
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Mary Kay Ash
Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth.
Oprah Winfrey
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
Funny Insights
Humorous honesty quotes make the medicine easier to swallow.
People are like music, some speak the truth, and others are just noise.
Bill Murray
Honesty pays, but it doesn’t seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Frank McKinney
Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.
Mark Twain
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.
Josh Billings
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
Groucho Marx
Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
George Carlin
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark Twain
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
H. L. Mencken
If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny, or they’ll kill you.
Billy Wilder
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Socrates
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. Thomas Carlyle
There is one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, “Yes,” you know he is crooked.
Groucho Marx
Short Quotations on Honesty
Our short honesty quotes get right to the point.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
William Shakespeare
Honesty is the best policy.
Benjamin Franklin
I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.
Harvey S. Firestone
Honesty is something you can’t wear out.
Waylon Jennings
Loyalty and honesty, those are important.
Willian
An honest man’s word is as good as his bond.
Unknown
Honesty and loyalty are key.
Taylor Lautner
I admire honesty more than any other trait.
Jerry Reinsdorf
Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.
George R.R. Martin
Aim not at being clever but at being true.
Marty Rubin
It is a fine thing, to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
Winston Churchill
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Mahatma Gandhi
Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.
Mark Twain
Don’t ever regret being honest. Period.
Taylor Swift
It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.
Rick Riordan
Anything is better than lies and deceit!
Leo Tolstoy
Truth Be Told
Check out the famous honesty quotes in this bunch.
You should not honor men more than the truth.
Plato
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Sophocles
If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.
Marcus Aurelius
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Sigmund Freud
Real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment.
Rajneesh
When you are truly honest with yourself, some people won’t like you.
Maxime Lagacé
Be kind and honest, and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you.
Rumi
To believe in something and not to live it is dishonest.
Mahatma Gandhi
When truth is divided, errors multiply.
Eli Siegel
An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Interesting
Honesty quotes present many perspectives. Check these out.
When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth.
Khaled Hosseini
Honesty has a power that very few people can handle.
Steven Aitchison
If an offense comes out of the truth, better is it that the offense comes than that the truth be concealed.
Thomas Hardy
Leading your life honestly and truthfully will create trust and friendship.
14th Dalai Lama
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
Vernon Howard
People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.
Ben Carson
The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest, and truthful.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
Khaled Hosseini
If you want to get free, you have to first get honest.
Joyce Meyer
Inspiring
Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?
John Steinbeck
You don’t always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.
Anne Lamott
Your feelings wouldn’t get hurt if you were honest with yourself.
Tye Lewis
When a man is penalized for honesty, he learns to lie.
Criss Jami
People are just looking for honesty and authenticity more than anything.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
There is always a way, to be honest without being brutal.
Arthur Dobrin
Motivational
Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people.
Warren Buffett
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love, and loyalty.
Unknown
One word of truth outweighs the world.
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.
Fred Rogers
Be honest about where you are at so that you can get to where you want to be.
Joyce Meyer
Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.
Mother Teresa
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth-telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
James E. Faust
It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Noël Coward
Living with integrity means: Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension.
Barbara De Angelis
Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
St. Catherine of Siena
I would rather be damned by my honesty than caged by my lies.
Omega Maverick
Honesty is not only the first step toward greatness; it is greatness itself.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo Tolstoy
Positive Takes
Honesty and openness are always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
Bell Hooks
Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
Ed McMahon
If, in day-to-day life, you lead a good life, honestly, with love, compassion, and less selfishness, then automatically, you will find peace.
14th Dalai Lama
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
Mary Browne
Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty.
Winston Churchill
I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.
T. S. Kalyanaraman
All I’m ever looking for in my work, in general, is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.
O Tillett Wright
If you tell the truth, you don’t need a long memory.
Jesse Ventura
Be True Thoughts
It is always helpful to remain honest and truthful in the face of difficulty.
14th Dalai Lama
Honest hearts produce honest actions.
Brigham Young
I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.
Daniel Radcliffe
Honesty first, then courage; then brains – and all are indispensable.
Theodore Roosevelt
Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.
Ray Blanton
The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.
Charles Peguy
The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.
William Shakespeare
An honest man is respected by all parties.
William Hazlitt
There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.
Frank Ocean
My strength would be my honesty and my passion towards my work.
Sushant Singh Rajput
Telling the Truth
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
Richard Bach
Good music is timeless, and if you create with that honesty, it will last.
Jorja Smith
I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.
Summer Altice
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
Abu Bakr
Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.
John Gerzema
Boastfulness and excessive pride do not equate at all with humility and honesty, credibility and integrity.
Angelica Hopes
Tell the truth. Don’t say anything you can’t stand behind fully. Have integrity.
Warsan Shire
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false and to incur my own abhorrence.
Frederick Douglass
Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them.
Suzy Kassem
Honesty and integrity are an important part of our character, my character.
Nick Saban
Achievements on the golf course are not what matters; decency and honesty are what matter.
Tiger Woods
The line between honesty and dishonesty is a narrow, shifting one and usually lets those who are the most subtle and already have more than they can use get by.
Clarence Darrow
When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed.
Ayn Rand
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Spencer Johnson
People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
Richard J. Needham
Honesty Captions for Instagram
- I’d rather be honest than impressive.
- Being honest never hurts anyone.
- I’m not interested in nice; I’m interested in honesty.
- Always maintain your honesty because your honesty is not your compulsion.
- You can’t lie to your soul.
- Truth fears no questions.
- Be honest rather than clever.
- If you want to be trusted, be honest.
- Be true to your work and to your word.
- Don’t expect loyalty when you can’t provide honesty.
- Honesty and loyalty mean everything to me.
- I can handle the truth, but not the lies.
- Fed up with getting lied to every day.
By Mike O’Halloran
Mike is the founder and editor of Greeting Card Poet.
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