Honesty Quotes and Sayings

Be honest, like karma it will eventually come back to you.

Being honest never hurts anyone. Being a liar hurts only you.

Be true to yourself. You are the only person that matters.

Everyone wants the truth but no one wants to be honest.

An honest centavo is better than a stolen peso.

You can lie to everyone else, but you can never really lie to yourself.

Honesty is an expensive virtue, and no one is really 100% honest. People are by nature half- honest and half- hypocritical, and they naturally choose to be hypocritical if doing so is beneficial to them. There is always a constant struggle between honesty and dishonesty, but nothing can replace honesty in a pleasant, healthy and happy life.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Honesty is something that gives you advantage in life. (:

I’d rather be hurt from your honesty, than pleased from your lies.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

Honesty enables people to have better personal relationships and social support, and to enjoy a pleasant, healthy and happy life.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Honesty does not guarantee success, but it is an honorable and respected way to achieve honestly earned success.
– Dr T.P.Chia

People often find it necessary not to say and act honestly in order to gain what they desire, or to avoid misunderstanding or conflicts.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Honesty makes better people and creates human relationships based on trust, integrity, righteousness and altruism.
– Dr T.P.Chia

A man who is not honest and true to himself can never be honest to anybody.

Most people commonly employ dishonesty and deception as a means to get through life safely and advantageously.
– Dr T.P.Chia

It is virtuous and honorable to be honest, but honesty does not always pay. Honesty is not a good policy in circumstances where being honest is disadvantageous or harmful.
– Dr T.P.Chia

People do praise and respect honesty, but most people would prefer dishonest- but- rich to honest- but- poor.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Honesty makes people feel good about themselves, but it is difficult to be living honestly all the time in life.
– Dr T.P.Chia

In business and politics, honesty is a luxury, and dishonesty is a good companion.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Let the truth be told
truth is the key to honesty

Without honesty, the world would be a zoo of dishonest, treacherous and man- hunting animals.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Dishonesty is always one way of climbing the ladder of success, but dishonest intentions and manipulations are more prone to fail.
– Dr T.P.Chia

The longer you keep a lie secret, the larger it will grow.
The larger it gets, the heavier it will be to catch if tossed back at you.

Honesty is the best policy.

I’m not rude, I’m honest. I just speak what’s on my mind, even if most can’t handle the truth.

Honesty is more than telling the truth – honesty also means admitting our flaws, defects and weaknesses, and not doing what we know is wrong.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Good and honest people are equally vulnerable to being hypocritical and deceptive when self- interests are involved – sometimes even honest people have to pay the price of acting hypocritically or unscrupulously.
– Dr T.P.Chia

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.
– Mark Twain

The truth will set you free.