•“The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.” 
― Zig Ziglar 

•“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.” 
― Mahatma Gandhi

•“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 

•“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.” 
― Victor Hugo

•“It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.” 
― John Steinbeck 

•“Honest people don't hide their deeds.” 
― Emily Brontë

•“Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.” 
― Lao Tzu 

•“Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.” 
― George R.R. Martin

•“Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.” 
― Ellen DeGeneres 

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

•“Honesty is the best policy.” 
― William Shakespeare

•“Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.” 
― Thomas Jefferson

•“Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.” 
― Richard Bach 

•“Never separate the life you lead from the words you speak.” 
― Paul Wellstone

•“Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.” 
― Dave Van Ronk 

•“No legacy is so rich as honesty.” 
― William Shakespeare

•“I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.” 
― Shania Twain 

•“Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.” 
― Henry David Thoreau

•“We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.” 
― Michelle Obama 

•“Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.” 
― James E. Faust

•“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 

•“Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.” 
― Ludwig van Beethoven

•“What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.” 
― Vanessa Marcil 

•“The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.” 
― James Jones

•“The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.” 
― Scott Hamilton 

•“The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.” 
― Norman Vincent Peale

•“Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.” 
― Mary Kay Ash 

•“Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.” 
― Terry Goodkind

•“Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.” 
― Dennis Prager 

•“Don't ever regret being honest. Period.” 
― Taylor Swift

•“I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.” 
― Jessamyn West 

•“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.”  

•“He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.” 
― John Lyly 

•“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.” 
― Marcus Aurelius

•“They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.” 
― Sallust 

•“No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.” 
― Henry Adams

•“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.” 
― Paulo Coelho

•“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest.” 
― Benjamin Franklin

•“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” 
― Virginia Woolf

•“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.” 
― Thomas Carlyle

•“If you expect honesty, be honest. If you expect forgiveness, forgive. If you expect a whole person, you have to be a whole person.” 
― Kristen Crockett

•“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.” 

•“Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.” 
― Kin Hubbard 

•“One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.” 
― Peter Kreeft

•“Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.” 
― Ed McMahon 

•“Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.” 

•“The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.” 
― John Lyly 

•“The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.” 
― E.M. Forster

•“With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.” 
― Samuel E. Morison 

•“Honesty doesn't always pay, but dishonesty always costs.” 

•“To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.” 
― William Shakespeare

•“There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.” 
― Peter S. Beagle

•“The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.” 
― Laurell K. Hamilton

•“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.” 
― Abraham Lincoln