Honesty Quotes by authors including William Shakespeare, Thomas Jefferson, and Groucho Marx at TailPic. Sayings in honesty and quotes. While it might not always be easy, it is the right approach to say the facts. Can these quotes motivate you, to be honest with others, but above all with yourself. Browse our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous honesty quotes and honesty sayings
Motivational quotes about honesty and life sayings
1. “I have to stay on top of myself with honesty and be very forthcoming, quickly admit when I’m wrong, you know? I have a whole system that works for me, and that’s part of my worldview now.” — Dax Shepard
2. “It’s about communication. It’s about honesty. It’s about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don’t try to give them half the story. You don’t try to hide the story. You treat them as – as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.” — Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
3. “I don’t want to sign something just because everyone is looking forward to what I sign next. When I take up a project, I am all in to deliver the best I can with sincerity and honesty.” — Mawra Hocane
4. “Love and honesty are the things that make a good wife and mother.” — Jada Pinkett Smith
5. “I can tell you in all honesty that I am highly connected to my family, my wife, and my three children, though I don’t get to spend dollops of hours with them.” — Ratan Tata
6. “But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.” — Mikhail Bakunin
7. “I used to be very revenge-motivated, but that’s just because I’m a Scorpio. Now I’m more so, like, practice honesty just because it makes you feel better.” — SZA
8. “What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.” — Patrick Lencioni
9. “True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.” — Garth Brooks
10. “Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.” — Tiger Woods
Famous quotes on honesty to inspire be yourself
11. “The three ordinary things that we often don’t pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.” — Azim Premji
12. “My mother was terribly invasive, all in the name of psychiatric honesty. It was a bad thing in some ways, but I do think it had the effect of making me interested in ‘the truth’ as a writer – more than beauty, more than having a shapely story.” — Edmund White
13. “All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, ‘I hit all my beats,’ ‘I accomplished my emotional honesty,’ or ‘I remembered my words,’ then that’s winning.” — Tamara Tunie
14. “My main trick is to work with amazing people. It’s a long and twisty journey, and you need people that really are amazing and have this rare gift of honesty and courage and really open up.” — Lucy Walker
15. “That’s one of the main things I’ve learned: honesty is paramount. The biggest thing I try and instil in my daughter. My deepest regrets have been to do with times that I’ve been dishonest. There’s nothing worse than getting caught out in a lie. It’s excruciatingly embarrassing.” — David Thewlis
16. “Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated – curated, contrived, edited. I think that’s a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.” — K. Flay
17. “I don’t like people lying; I like honesty.” — Karan Patel
18. “Three simple words – freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.” — Charles Kennedy
19. “I will run an open government that speaks with honesty, seeks opinion, listens to its citizens.” — Enrique Pena Nieto
20. “In all honesty, I hope I don’t coach again.” — Bill Cowher
Inspirational honesty quotes to inspire you
21. “I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.” — Elizabeth Wurtzel
22. “Superstars come and go. I want to make sure I am always a producer’s actor. I may be refused to be called a great actor but I have never troubled any of my producers in my life. Honesty always catches the camera, and that is what my strength is.” — Akshay Kumar
23. “Society is notoriously stupid in its failure to harness the wisdom of older women in everything from television to politics, family life to boardrooms, and here is one reminiscing with honesty and realism about women’s particular challenge: to create our professional and financial structures in the same period as our peak fertility.” — Victoria Coren Mitchell
24. “You can hear some artists, hear five of their albums and still have no idea who they are. But if you’ve heard most of what I’ve recorded, you know me. You go from ‘Honesty’ to ‘Going Through Hell’ – you can listen to the hits, and they pretty much reflect who I am. ‘Take a Back Road’ is the same thing.” — Rodney Atkins
25. “Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.” — Lance Loud
26. “I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She’s the sweetest woman in the world. I’m looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I’m looking for honesty and a big heart.” — Jason Derulo
27. “I guess I’m reasonably confident in all honesty. But I definitely don’t think I’m arrogant. I’m pretty down to earth, I mean I’m genuinely down to earth.” — John Key
28. “A lot of my honesty, and wanting to be as authentic as possible, came from coming out of bands like S Club 7 – things that felt glossy, you know? And with the rise of social media, there was an initial backlash against that glossiness, too. And then, I don’t know, somehow it managed to get lost again.” — Lily Allen
29. “When someone is successful, there’s always a feeling that they were lucky. Luck plays a part, sure, but to be successful, you must have iron discipline. You must have energy and hunger and desire and honesty.” — Faye Dunaway
30. “Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.” — Henry Fielding
Inspiring honesty quotes that change your life
31. “There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that’s wrong. Don’t get into a relationship if you can’t be honest.” — Randeep Hooda
32. “See, the ‘On the Road’ that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody – ‘You must live life this way’ – and these guys were bored.” — Garrett Hedlund
33. “A real good artist learns to be a better person through all the changes they’ve been through. They keep their loving and honesty growing and learn to look at the world and not be full of hatred.” — Charles Bradley
34. “Honesty works against you in the entertainment field. I try to be a journalist and a documentarian, but that doesn’t mean that people are going to embrace it at the moment. The point is I’m leaving the mark of my hysteria and the political hysteria, and that’s it… I can only do what I do.” — Lydia Lunch
35. “Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don’t want to be honest all the time.” — Dan Ariely
36. “A lot of people have said that I’m super-snarky and mean. But honesty is the only way to get people to change. It’s very important to be constructively critical – give people alternatives and you’re giving them a new way to see themselves.” — Stacy London
37. “In all honesty my cake was baking when I met Al – I had made up in my mind already to get physically healthy. He refreshingly was on his own journey so it was almost as if we walked together.” — Star Jones
38. “Once you lose the honesty in a relationship, I mean, I think you don’t have a relationship at all.” — Elizabeth Gillies
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