1. Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. ~Henry David Thoreau
3. Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. ~Sigmund Freud
4. Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ~Robert Burns
5. Do not do what you would undo if caught. ~Leah Arendt~
6. Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service. ~Leslie Stephen
7. Good leaders cultivate honest speech; they love advisors who tell them the truth. ~Proverbs 16: 13 MSG
8. Half of the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not. ~E. R. Beadle
9. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. ~Mahatma Gandhi
10. Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. ~Mother Theresa
11. Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty. ~Plato
12. Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. ~Steve Landesberg
13. Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation. ~Thomas Jefferson
14. Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product. ~Ed Mcmahon
15. Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people. ~F. M. Hubbard
16. How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people. ~Edward F. Benson
17. I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it. ~Lee Iacocca
18. Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. ~Thomas Carlyle
19. No legacy is so rich as honesty. ~Shakespeare
20. No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
21. No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged. ~Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
22. No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest. ~Sir Walter Raleigh
23. No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
24. People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. ~Richard J. Needham
25. People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. ~Richard
26. The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. ~Merry Browne
27. The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors. ~Charles Peguy
28. There is no more powerful weapon for change than honesty. ~Margaret Heffernan
29. There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white. ~John F. Dodge
30. There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked. ~Groucho Marx
31. To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. ~John Ruskin
32. To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success. ~Orison Swett Marden
33. You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made. ~George Burns