A true relationship is when you can tell each other anything and everything. No secrets and no lies.
Speak with honesty, think with sincerity, and act with integrity.
Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile. @ -Paulo Coelho
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. @ -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The best thing about telling the truth is you don't have to remember what you said.
Stand with lies and comfort and you build something weak. Stand with truth and honesty and you build something strong. @ -Maxime Lagacé
Never expect loyalty from a person that can't give you honesty. @ -Surgeo Bell
We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses to stay in our comfort zone. @ -Roy T. Bennett
Be honest with the people who love you. They deserve your honesty.
I don't know what's worse, people who lie or people who think I am stupid enough to believe the lies!
Anyone can give you attention and compliments... But someone who loves you will give you that plus respect, honesty, trust, and loyalty. @ -Charles J. Orlando
Honesty and loyalty are key. @ -Taylor Lautner
Keep your whole life low-key and let people assume incorrectly.
Don't talk, just act. Don't say, just show. Don't promise, just prove.
If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone. @ -William Shakespeare
I don't ask for much, just loyalty.
The only people I owe my loyalty to are those who never made me question theirs.
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
A half truth is a whole lie. @ -Yiddish proverb
Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying. @ -Yoko Ono
Be honest with yourself and never settle for a life that is not true to who you are.
Honesty is the foundation for trust; you can't have one without the other.
I meant what I said and I said what I meant.  @ -Dr. Seuss
Truth builds trust. @ -Marilyn Suttle
I admire honesty more than any other trait. @ -Jerry Reinsdorf
If you want to be trusted, be honest.
Anyone can say they care. But watch their actions, not their words. @ -Buddha
If you really want to be happy, you have to be present. One of the core tenets of being present is to be completely honest at all times. @ -Naval Ravikant
Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying. @ -Fred Rogers
Be a reflection of what you'd like to see in others. If you want love, give love, if you want honesty, give honesty, if you want respect, give respect. You get in return, what you give.
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. @ -Marcus Aurelius
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
Every lie is two lies, the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it. @ -Robert Brault
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. @ -James E. Faust
People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise. @ -Bill Murray
Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure. @ -James Altucher
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. @ -Mark Twain
Stay low-key, disconnect, disappear and glow up.
You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time. @ -Aesop
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better. @ -Swami Vivekananda
Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don't expect it from cheap people. @ -Warren Buffett
The best thing I ever did was become more low-key and focus on myself.
Honesty saves everyone's time.
A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies. @ -Mark Twain
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. @ -Benjamin Disraeli
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. @ -Sophocles
If you don't admit to any weaknesses, you can't correct them.
An honest enemy is better than a best friend who lies. @ -Vandi Tanko
Clarity is a gift of honesty.
Be honest in everything you do, even if it means the occasional difficult confrontation.
You have to be true to who you are. @ -Kobe Bryant
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. @ -Thomas Jefferson
Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another. @ -Simone Elkeles
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful. @ -Eleanor Roosevelt
Living with integrity means: Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. @ -Barbara De Angelis
When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. @ -Khaled Hosseini
If you can't be honest with yourself, you can't fix yourself. Admitting you have a problem is the first step for a good reason. @ -Ed Latimore
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. @ -Spencer Johnson
When love is real, it doesn't lie, cheat, pretend or keep secrets.
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth. @ -William Faulkner
Just try, try to be right here, open, honest, straight. @ -Ram Dass
An honest man will sometimes repeat himself. A liar can always find a surprising new angle. The truth resembles itself. @ -The Stoic Emperor
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. @ -Confucius
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. @ -Oscar Wilde
Tell the truth at all times and life will be so much easier.
If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy. @ -14th Dalai Lama
The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others. @ -14th Dalai Lama
Real friendship, based on honesty and support, is worth more than all the fake acquaintances in the world.
Be honest with yourself about what you really want to accomplish, sometimes we make goals based on what others think we should do.
False friendship is the worst. Avoid it at all costs. If you're honest and straightforward and mean well, it should show in your eyes. It should be unmistakable. @ -Marcus Aurelius
When we are committed to honesty, we help reduce the level of misunderstanding, doubt, and fear throughout society. @ -14th Dalai Lama
Keep the promises you make to yourself and others, cultivate your integrity.
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. @ -William Shakespeare
To be true to yourself, you must risk being disliked by others for not living up to their expectation of you. @ -Eric Peng
To live a life of honesty and integrity is a responsibility of every decent person. @ -Noam Chomsky
Never rob your character to enrich your pocket. @ -James Lendall Basford
And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too. @ -Khaled Hosseini
One sincere apology is worth a thousand fake compliments.
No legacy is as rich as honesty.
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. @ -Henry Adams
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
We have to put effort into being honest, truthful and compassionate towards others. @ -14th Dalai Lama
No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. @ -Abraham Lincoln
An honest man is always a child. @ -Socrates
Saying no doesn't make you a bad person. Saying no doesn't make you mean. Saying no is a healthy boundary that protects your time and your energy. Be honest about who and what matters to you. @ -Mel Robbins
Take accountability. Show integrity. Build wisdom.
Staying low-key can solve half of your problems.
Don't let people know too much about you.
Honesty plus love will get you through most situations. @ -Naval Ravikant
If you prefer to not play the game and to always be honest and upfront, do not complain when others call you obnoxious and arrogant. @ -Robert Greene
Respect is earned. Honesty is appreciated. Trust is gained. Loyalty is returned.
If you are looking for the truth, make sure you are open to it.
Honesty has a power that very few people can handle. @ -Steve Aitchison
Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself. @ -Sydney J. Harris
Affection, honesty, harmony and non-violence are qualities that yield happiness for individuals, families and society at large. @ -14th Dalai Lama
As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself. Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility. @ -Nelson Mandela
Let love be the basis of your intentions with your loved ones, not deception or indifference.
When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed. @ -Ayn Rand
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. @ -French Proverb
In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful. @ -Edward R. Murrow
The good I stand on is my truth and honesty. @ -William Shakespeare
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
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar. @ -Mark Twain
When you're dishonest with yourself, you're disconnected from reality. You're going to make poor decisions. You're going to drop out of the moment and you're going to be less happy and you're going to be wrong. @ -Naval Ravikant
Take care that no one hates you justly. @ -Publilius Syrus
Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to yourself. @ -Joe Tye
To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength. @ -Criss Jami
An honest man's the noblest work of God. @ -Alexander Pope
Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. @ -Maya Angelou
This above all: to thine own self be true. @ -William Shakespeare
In the short run, lying is easy and honesty is hard. In the long run, honesty is easy and lying is hard. What you choose today makes your tomorrow. @ -Shane Parrish
If you want to get free, you have to first get honest. @ -Joyce Meyer
Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur. @ -Zig Ziglar
Sincerity is irrelevant in a society where many believe their own lies.
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
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. @ -Zig Ziglar
No legacy is so rich as honesty. @ -William Shakespeare
The real source of inner joy is to remain truthful and honest. @ -14th Dalai Lama
A good conscience is a continual Christmas. @ -Benjamin Franklin
If you were completely honest to yourself about yourself, other people and the world, you would never get disappointed. You would liberate yourself from all the illusions and falsehoods. This would give you great power. @ -The Ancient Sage
Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself. @ -William Shakespeare
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. @ -Voltaire
Be honest, brutally honest. @ -Lauryn Hill
Speak plainly instead of hiding what you mean inside vague words.
The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us. @ -Friedrich Nietzsche
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. @ -Thomas Carlyle
Have integrity and demand it from others. @ -Ray Dalio
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on. @ -Voltaire
Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth. @ -Thomas Jefferson
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong. @ -Abraham Lincoln
A promise made is a debt unpaid. @ -Robert Service
May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. @ -Rainer Maria Rilke
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. @ -Henry David Thoreau
Continue to tell the truth, even when you have been lied to.
Honesty always brings forth fruitful results. @ -Jasmine Upwork
When you face a choice between being polite and being honest, err on the side of the truth. It's better to be disliked but respected than to be liked but disrespected. In the long run, the people we trust the most are those who have the courage to be sincere. @ -Adam Grant
Remain honest in all that you do. @ -Jasmine Upwork
They say the truth hurts, but what hurts most is when you lie to yourself. @ -Jasmine Upwork
He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying. @ -Michel de Montaigne
Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children. @ -Oliver Wendell
The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present moment, not to the past, not to the future. @ -Rajneesh
Anyone around whom I can't be fully honest, I don't want to be around. @ -Naval Ravikant
Open-hearted gestures of honesty and generosity bring down the guard of even the most suspicious people. @ -Robert Greene
The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. @ -Will Durant
An honest thinker will highlight and confront the most intimidating counterargument. A dishonest thinker will seek out the most ludicrous counterargument and pretend it is the only counterargument. @ -The Stoic Emperor
It takes strength and courage to admit the truth. @ -Rick Riordan
Three little duties – to try hard, to be honest, and to help ourselves and others. @ -Ryan Holiday
Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it. @ -Mark Twain
An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense. @ -Ben Carson
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. @ -Ludwig Wittgenstein
Truth fears no questions.
Make yourself an honest man. @ -Thomas Carlyle
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
Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue. @ -Bell Hooks
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest. @ -William Faulkner
The highest compact we can make with our fellow is – "Let there be truth between us two forevermore." @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honesty is the best policy.
Honesty first; then courage; then brains – and all are indispensable. @ -Theodore Roosevelt
Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth. @ -Kenneth Blanchard
Do not confuse flattering lies with honest admiration.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. @ -Edgar J. Mohn
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. @ -Ernest Hemingway
None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error. @ -Benjamin Franklin
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. @ -Kent M. Keith
I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to. @ -Daniel Radcliffe
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. @ -Henry Louis Mencken
Leading your life honestly and truthfully will create trust and friendship. @ -14th Dalai Lama
Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of what you're doing is as valuable as gold. @ -Elon Musk
Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you. @ -Hillary Clinton
The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded. @ -Scott Hamilton
Directness and honesty may give you relief, but they also stir up antagonism. @ -Robert Greene
Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty. @ -Winston Churchill
Pay what you owe and what you're worth you'll know. @ -Benjamin Franklin
The most interesting thing you can say is the most honest. @ -Rorty Witt
Spontaneity is total sincerity. @ -Alan Watts
For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar. @ -William Shakespeare
Genuine friendship is not based on money and power, but on trust, which in turn develops as a result of showing concern for other people's well-being. In other words, friendship is founded on warm-heartedness. @ -14th Dalai Lama
All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society. @ -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If you're not honest with the world, you can't really be honest with yourself. @ -Joe Norman
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. @ -Robert Louis
Being honest with myself is something I like. I am happy that I don't make excuses when I make a mistake. This is a good way to improve in the fastest way. @ -Charles Leclerc
You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line. @ -Carl Bernstein
You ask me what forces me to speak? A strange thing; my conscience. @ -Victor Hugo
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door. @ -Vernon Howard
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. @ -Oscar Wilde
To express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself; that, my friend, is very hard to do. @ -Bruce Lee
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. @ -Abraham Lincoln
If we, as humans, are honest with ourselves, we will, with clarity and serenity, admit that we are failures. @ -Kapil Gupta
A single act of honesty is often not enough. What is required is a reputation for honesty, built on a series of act. @ -Robert Greene
The honest man falls prey to guilt and conscience far more often than the dishonest one. Even when he has acted honorably. @ -Kapil Gupta
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. @ -Bertrand Russell
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. @ -George Washington
Leadership is intelligence, honesty, and doing the right thing. @ -Julie Zeilinger
If a man examines his life with rare and uncommon honesty, he comes to realize that it is, at once, an empty, societal charade. There is nothing within it that is of any genuine significance. @ -Kapil Gupta
When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie. @ -Criss Jami
Truth never damages a cause that is just. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
Confidence thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. @ -Franklin D. Roosevelt
Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product. @ -Ed McMahon
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. @ -Miguel de Cervantes
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
Honesty prospers in every condition of life. @ -Friedrich Schiller
Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance. @ -William Shakespeare
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. @ -Oscar Wilde
It is a great compliment for an honest person to be mistaken for a crook by a crook. @ -Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To be honest, speak without identity. @ -Naval Ravikant
Your most important friends are people who'll give you honest, "unpadded" feedback. @ -Life Math Money
Most of what I say is complete truth. My edit button is broken. @ -Myra McEntire
For truth to be heard, it must be spoken with kindness. Truth is kind only when it is spoken through your heart with sincerity. @ -Leo Tolstoy
Being extremely honest with oneself is a good exercise. @ -Sigmund Freud
Self-realization is effortless. What you are trying to find is what you already are. @ -Ramesh Balsekar
A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me. @ -Antonio Porchia
Feigned interest is worse than brutal honesty. @ -Stewart Stafford
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart. @ -Charles Dickens
Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty. @ -Nathaniel Hawthorne
The truth can only be recalled, never invented. @ -Marilyn Monroe
Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said. @ -Voltaire
We are franker towards others than towards ourselves. @ -Friedrich Nietzsche
If you make excuses, you're going to believe in a lie. And I don't believe in that lie that you can't make it, that somebody is trying to hold you back. @ -Dion DiMucci
The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful. @ -Laura Ingalls Wilder
It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. @ -Noel Coward
The Golden Key to this thing called life is rigorous self-honesty. @ -Chuck C
No matter what you do, stand up for who you are and be honest. @ -Bryant McGill
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
Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean. @ -Pema Chödrön
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them. @ -Socrates
The function and duty of a human being, a "quality" human being, that is, is the sincere and honest development of potential and self-actualization. @ -Bruce Lee
Be kind and honest, and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you. @ -Rumi
I am low-key. I like my privacy. @ -Kembla Walker
You really have to be yourself. The best thing that you can do, for anybody, is just to offer one more honest adult in their lives. @ -Fred Rogers
The first step is to be honest, and then to be noble. @ -Winston Churchill
Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," – it is greatness itself. @ -Christian Nestell Bovee
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty. @ -Abu Bakr RA
Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.  @ -B. C. Forbes
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. @ -Mary Kay Ash
I want to be able to just be me. I never want to be in an environment or around people where I have to watch what I say. @ -Naval Ravikant
To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. @ -William Shakespeare
On the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right. @ -Terry Pratchett
There is always a way to be honest without being brutal. @ -Arthur Dobrin
Never hide your angry feelings, be upfront or you'll lose trust and respect.
Be truthful, gentle, and fearless. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
The first step toward greatness is to be honest. @ -Samuel Johnson
Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts. @ -Maggie
To live outside the law, you must be honest. @ -Bob Dylan
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
The selfish reason to be ethical is that it attracts the other ethical people in the network. @ -Naval Ravikant
What radical honesty just means is that I want to be free. Part of being free means that I can say what I think and think what I say. @ -Naval Ravikant
You can't lie to your soul. @ -Irvine Welsh
It's difficult to honest with others when you continue lying to yourself. @ -Carlos Wallace
Honesty is not the best policy – merely the safest. @ -William Shakespeare
It is always helpful to remain honest and truthful in the face of difficulty. @ -14th Dalai Lama
Honest people don't hide their deeds. @ -Emily Brontë
Be honest about where you are at so that you can get to where you want to be. @ -Joyce Meyer
Be honest in your life it creates positive energy. @ -Fathima Bibi Joosab
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty. @ -Plato
Before you can lie to another, you must first lie to yourself. @ -Naval Ravikant
Don't ever regret being honest. Period. @ -Taylor Swift
Being honest and good can be thankless outwardly but gives you powerful inner strength.
You cannot con an honest man. @ -Ally Carter
Stop lying about not having enough time.
To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others. @ -Criss Jami
Authenticity is powerful because it is, by definition, impossible to fake. To lead an authentic life is to lead a truly honest life. @ -Ed Latimore
The responsibility is all yours; no one can stop you from being honest or straightforward. @ -Marcus Aurelius
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie. @ -Victor Hugo
People who constantly signal how honest they are rarely are actually honest. People who constantly signal how authentic they are rarely are actually authentic. Authentic does not have to constantly remind you that it's authentic. @ -Life Math Money
Stay true to yourself. An original is worth more than a copy. @ -Suzy Kassem
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. @ -Winston Churchill
Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie. @ -Robert Brault
He who dares not offend cannot be honest. @ -Thomas Paine
Be silly. Be honest. Be kind. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. @ -Virginia Woolf
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it'll always get you the right ones. @ -John Lennon
