Honesty Quotes

“Honesty is always the best policy.”
-George Washington

“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”
-Winston Churchill

“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.”
-John F. Kennedy

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
-Henry David Thoreau

“Peace if possible, truth at all costs.”
-Martin Luther

“Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.”
-Fred Rogers

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

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”
-Albert Einstein

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
-Mark Twain

“I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.”
-Harry S. Truman

“Half a truth is often a great lie.”
-Benjamin Franklin

“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.”
-Elvis Presley

“There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself – an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.”
-Antisthenes

“Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.”
-Brené Brown

“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
-Buddha

“Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.”
-George Carlin

“The object of the superior man is truth.”
-Confucius

“I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.”
-Sylvester Stallone

“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”
-Spencer Johnson

“I meant what I said and I said what I meant.”
-Dr. Seuss