Trust Honesty Quotes:

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom, Inspirational Wisdom, Most Wise

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

- Mark Twain

topic: Life, Funny Inspirational, Honesty, Way In Life, Trustworthiness

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Trust, Travel, Truth, Half Truth, Half Way

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

- Benjamin Disraeli

source: "Contarini Fleming". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, 1832.

topic: Inspirational, Being Yourself, Truth, Just Being You, Lies Truth

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging, Spiritual Integrity, Integrity And Character

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

- Richard J. Needham

topic: Honesty, People, Satisfaction, Lies And Liars, Lies In Love

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Leadership, Truth, Honesty, Spiritual Integrity, Not Trusting

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Friendship, Nature, Integrity, Inspirational Friendship, Honest Work

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

topic: Honesty, Emotional, Compassion, Trust Honesty

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Motivational, Truth, Honesty, Conformist, Leadership Integrity

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

- George MacDonald

topic: Love, Life, Friendship, Never Trust Anyone, Trust Issues

Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

- Finley Peter Dunne

source: Finley Peter Dunne (1963). “Mr. Dooley remembers: the informal memoirs of Finley Peter Dunne”

topic: Trust, Cutting, Father Son, Verify, Playing Cards

The truth is more important than the facts.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

source: Frank Lloyd Wright (2014). “Letters to Architects”, p.170, Elsevier

topic: Wise, Witty, Powerful, Ignorance Is Bliss, Lies Truth

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Trust, Dream, Hope, Blocked, Trust Issues

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

- George MacDonald

topic: Friendship, Trust, Tragedy, Whom To Trust, Trust Issues

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

- Spencer Johnson

topic: Truth, Honesty, Integrity, Moral Ethics, Moral Integrity

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Simple, Honor, Modern Life, Life Is Simple, Modern Literature

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

- William Blake

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Fake People, Half Truth, Spiritual Truth

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Funny, Bible, Truth, Inconvenient Truth, Jealousy And Insecurity

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: "Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think".

topic: Truth, Honesty, Integrity, Being Straightforward, Trust And Honesty

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.226

topic: Life, Trust, Betrayal, Live For Yourself, Wrong Person

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Trust, Pain, Character, Not Trusting, Trustworthiness

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Truth, Two, Truth Is, Compact, Truth And Honesty

This above all; to thine own self be true.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation, True To Myself, Horatio

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Relationship, Trust, Cheating, Not Trusting, Lied To Me

Trust everybody, but cut the cards yourself.

- W. C. Fields

topic: Trust, Cutting, Cards, Self Trust, Trust And Honesty

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.

- Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

topic: Trust, Respect, Men, Self Trust, Trustworthiness

There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, George Walton Williams (1964). “The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet: A Critical Edition”, p.127, Duke University Press

topic: Trust, Honesty, Men, No Trust, Trust Honesty

Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.

- Stephen Covey

topic: Trust, Motivation, People, It Takes Time, Trust And Honesty

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

topic: Truth, Children, Lying, Lies Truth, Truth And Lies

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

- Mark Twain

topic: Memories, Needs, Good Memories, Way In Life, Being Truthful

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

- Jesse Ventura

topic: Truth, Memories, Long, Way In Life, Inspirational Change

He who does not trust enough will not be trusted.

- Laozi

source: Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

topic: Trust, Taoism, Doe, Not Trusting, Trust Issues

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

- William Blake

topic: Trust, Courage, Truth, Knowing The Truth, Lies Truth

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

source: Robert Louis Stevenson (1903). “Virginibus Puerisque: An Essay in Four Parts”

topic: Heartbreak, Truth, Lying, Lies And Liars, Lies In Love

The best proof of love is trust.

- Joyce Brothers

source: "Chicken Soup for the Gardener's Soul : 101 Stories to Sow Seeds of Love, Hope and Laughter" by Jack Canfield, (p. 25), 2001.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Relationship, Marriage Problems, Columnists

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

- Thomas Carlyle

topic: Honesty, Men, World, Rascals, Dishonesty And Lying

Trust, honesty, humility, transparency and accountability are the building blocks of a positive reputation. Trust is the foundation of any relationship.

- Mike Paul

topic: Honesty, Block, Humility, Character And Reputation, Being Trusted

I consider myself to be just one among 7 billion human beings. If I were to think of myself as different from others, or as something special, it would create a barrier between us. What makes us the same is that we all want to lead happy lives and gather friends around us. And friendship is based on trust, honesty and openness.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Honesty, Happy Life, Thinking, Sameness, Trust Honesty

Inner values like friendship, trust, honesty and compassion are much more reliable than money - they always bring happiness and strength.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Trust Honesty