Quotes About Honesty

Trust one who has tried.

Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you

There comes a point in a relationship when you realize that you trust someone enough to let them keep their secrets.

Long-term success is the result of relationships built on a foundation of trust. People get more value from those they trust.

We wouldn't survive if people didn't trust us.

Trust is the great simplifier. If people in business told the truth, 80 to 90 percent of their problems would disappear.

Trust and reputation are not discretionary. They are as necessary in business as the people in whom they reside.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Quality relationships are built on principles, especially the principle of trust.

Trust isn't something that's spoken and love's never wrong when it's real.

People who lie, cheat and steal in relationships are communicating that they have such an inferior view of themselves that they are not worthy of another's trust.

A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don't have those, you don't have love.

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

Public office is a public trust.

You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

The betrayal of people's good will, good trust that things are being done for the best and they actually ARE being done for the best.

Credibility is lost when there are big discrepancies between what leaders say and what they do. ... Increasing credibility requires openness. Hidden agendas will destroy trust.

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.

You can't trust very many people.

A relationship cannot survive the test of time without trust.

Trust doesn't develop from always doing the right thing. Trust comes from taking responsibility when we do the wrong thing.

When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, "I'm in public service," you know you should flee.