Trust & Honesty

Define
Trust: Being able to depend on another person, tell them your intermost thoughts withought judgement from the other end, and genuinely caring about the best interest of the other person.
Honesty: This can be exactly what you want to hear or not. It is usually for the best interest of the reciever.

What do trust and honesty have to do with each other? Do they go hand in hand?
Trust and honesty absolutely go hand in hand because the people who are most honest with me are the ones I trust most. People who lie and sugarcoat things to protect people's feelings cannot be trusted above someone who tells the honest truth or opinion (whether it is good or bad) purely because sacrificing someone's feelings by telling a lie does not help the person in the long run.

How do both relate to leadership and what are their importance to leadership?
Trust and honesty are essentials to good character. As J.R. Miller once said, "The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to to buried is the character of a man. This is true. What a man is survives him. It can never be buried." Basically, what people will remember most when a leader dies is their character--and trust and honesty are two of the most important characteristic traits.