Trust-building Quotes

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

- Abu Bakr

If you want honesty and love, you have to be honest and loving and loveable.

- Aksel Hennie

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

- Alan Arkin

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

- Albert Camus

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

- Andrew Carnegie

Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.

- Andrew Sullivan

Honesty is love.

- Andy Dunn

Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability.

- Arthur C. Nielsen

And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.

- Ben E. King

Honesty is the best policy.

- Benjamin Franklin

I want my brand and Bibi Bourelly to represent honesty.

- Bibi Bourelly

I have faith in the people. Honesty will prosper.

- Bibi Bourelly

There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

- Billie Joe Armstrong

I feel honesty always works.

- Bobby Unser

People like my honesty. When I'm sane, I'm very much myself.

- Boy George

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

- Brooke Shields

Honesty is all you need.

- Cass Elliot

Sometimes I light incense and a candle. It's so peaceful and quiet. The steadiness of the energy and the reliability of the warmth have a calming effect.

- Cindy Williams

Acting means nothing unless it's truth. And honesty.

- Colm Wilkinson

Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.

- Dan Ariely

Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.

- David A. Bednar

I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest.

- David Blunkett

Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.

- David Koechner

Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless.

- David Whyte

Wealth is a thing, earned with honesty and justice. Its opposite is the Mammon of unrighteousness.

- Dayananda Saraswati

In all honesty, my favorite place to write is an anonymous, cheap hotel in a city or town where nobody knows me, the wireless service is spotty, and the adjoining gas station has coffee, beer and junk food.

- Dean Bakopoulos

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

- Dean Inge

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

- Don Marquis

I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit.

- Donald Trump

In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.

- Edgar Meyer

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

- Edsger Dijkstra

Once you lose the honesty in a relationship, I mean, I think you don't have a relationship at all.

- Elizabeth Gillies

Honesty compels me to say that I am not a socialist. But so what?

- Emmanuel Macron

Energy is a linchpin of economic prosperity, with energy security, reliability, and affordability key preconditions for sustainable growth.

- Fatih Birol

I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.

- Frank Langella

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

- Friedrich Schiller

True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

- Garth Brooks

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

- George Burns

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

- George Oppen

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

- George Saunders

What is important is the reliability of my posts being there to greet my fans with a smile or a giggle every morning. That's how we keep on growing.

- George Takei

But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.

- Gerrit Smith

Honesty I can take. Lies I get upset about.

- Glen Campbell

Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor or an animator, is you try to understand the process that person has so you can get the most out of them, but I think you have to sort of manipulate that process with honesty.

- Gore Verbinski

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

- Graeme Murphy

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

- Groucho Marx

Party honesty is party expediency.

- Grover Cleveland

Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.

- Harold S. Geneen

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

- Harvey S. Firestone

I'm the voice of honesty.

- Howard Stern

I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.

- Jack Whitehall

Love and honesty are the things that make a good wife and mother.

- Jada Pinkett Smith

Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.

- James Altucher

Branding jails corporate America, but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.

- James Altucher

I admire honesty more than any other trait.

- Jerry Reinsdorf

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

- Jessamyn West

We try to instill a sense of fair play, a sense of honesty.

- Jesse White

Honesty has always been very important to me.

- Jessica Lynch

I'm always going for truth and honesty.

- Jill Soloway

My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty.

- John Cullum

Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.

- John Gerzema

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

- John Lyly

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

- John Lyly

Good music is timeless, and if you create with that honesty, it will last.

- Jorja Smith

Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

- Judith Martin

Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty.

- Kangana Ranaut

Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.

- Karan Johar

I don't like people lying; I like honesty.

- Karan Patel

Honesty will never break you.

- Kate Hudson

It is my conviction that secrets are more costly in the long run than honesty.

- Kathryn Harrison

Honesty has always worked for me.

- Katy Perry

To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

- Keri Hilson

My career is based on openness and honesty.

- Kim Kardashian

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

- Kin Hubbard

I try to stick with things that I can sing with honesty.

- Kurt Elling

For me, honesty is a huge thing, and loyalty, when it comes to relationships.

- Lauren Jauregui

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

- Lawrence G. Lovasik

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.

- Lemuel K. Washburn

Investing is about intellectual honesty. You want to know what you know. You want to know, mostly, what you don't know.

- Li Lu

People think I'm rude. I'm not rude; I'm just not networking. It's just honesty.

- Louise Wilson

In all honesty, I should have given up this acting lark years ago.

- Luke Evans

I like honesty and fair play.

- Marcus Garvey

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

- Mark Twain

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

- Mary Browne

In all honesty, Hilary Clinton can't fill a Starbucks even if they offered free ventis.

- Michael D. Cohen

I can predict things. I can improve the uptime and the reliability. I can intervene and cause a better outcome before there's a problem.

- Michael Dell

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

- Michel de Montaigne

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls... that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

- Michelle Obama

In all honesty, I don't really know how to feel sexy.

- Mollie King

I think people appreciate honesty.

- Naftali Bennett

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

- Nigel Kneale

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

- Noel Coward

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

- Noel Coward

Comedy is just honesty. Whether things are going well or bad.

- Noel Wells

It's so important that we tell customers what's going on as best as we can. And we're trying to do that. We don't often know ourselves, for so many different factors, but reliability, flexibility, and information are the three critical customer service orientations.

- Oscar Munoz

By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire.

- P. J. O'Rourke

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

- Patrick Kavanagh

What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.

- Patrick Lencioni

Honesty is always hip.

- Patty Smyth

Where there seems to be a difference between guys being nuts and women being nuts is that guys are much more open in calling each other on stuff; lots of insults and dirty names. Whereas women will talk frankly and honesty, but there also seems to be more passive aggressiveness.

- Paul Feig

We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability.

- Paul Gillmor

In all honesty, I don't know what one song can change.

- Paul Weller

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

- Plato

Most writers write from their own experiences. That is where the honesty and intensity of emotions come from.

- Ravi Subramanian

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.

- Ray Blanton

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

- Richard Bach

We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.

- Richard Burr

The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

- Richard J. Needham

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

- Richard Whately

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

- Roberta Flack

My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.

- Roger Moore

Truth, honesty, empowerment - it's what I want for myself and my readers.

- Rupi Kaur

The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators.

- Ruzwana Bashir

People are just looking for honesty and authenticity more than anything.

- Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Honesty and authenticity are a big deal for me.

- Scarlett Thomas

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.

- Sophie Hunger

The only responsible way to write about anything is with honesty.

- Stephen McCauley

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

- Stephen Vincent Benet

My strength would be my honesty and my passion towards my work.

- Sushant Singh Rajput

I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.

- T. S. Kalyanaraman

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

- Thomas Jefferson

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

- Thomas Kretschmann

More precious is want with honesty than wealth with infamy.

- Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting.

- Tom Stoppard

If Uber is lower-priced, then more people will want it. And if more people want it and can afford it, then you have more cars on the road. And if you have more cars on the road, then your pickup times are lower, your reliability is better. The lower-cost product ends up being more luxurious than the high-end one.

- Travis Kalanick

A romantic relationship requires honesty between a couple.

- Tzipi Livni

Honesty is very sexy.

- Valerie Bertinelli

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

- Waylon Jennings

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

- William Shakespeare

I think the most important thing for me in a relationship is honesty.

- Zac Efron