Motivational Quotes

Honesty

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

- Browne, Merry

Best Quotes about Honesty

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. [Leviticus 19:11]

Bible

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Kant, Immanuel

Look a man in the eye and say what you really think, don't just smile at him and say what you're supposed to think.

I grew up in New York, and I have that in me, that be-honest-at-all-costs, don't b.s. me attitude. I say, If you've got something to say about me, say it to my face. And then we'll either talk about it or fight about it.

Robbins, Tim

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chapman, George

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

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.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Nouwen, Henri

11.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

12.

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.

Benson, Edward Frederic

13.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

14.

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

15.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

16.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

When we are not honest, we are cut off from a significant resource of ourselves, a vital dimension that is necessary for unity and wholeness.

Moustakas, Clark

18.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

19.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

Mcmahon, Ed

20.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

Allen, James

21.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

22.

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

Cayce, Edgar

23.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

24.

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

Mamet, David

25.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

26.

Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.

Cindy Chupack

27.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

28.

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.

Iacocca, Lee

29.

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

Kin Hubbard

30.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Arthur C. Clarke

32.

There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked.

Marx, Groucho

33.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

34.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Ash, Mary Kay

35.

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

Shakespeare, William

36.

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Arendt, Leah

37.

When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.

Pamela Ribon

38.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

39.

You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.

Burns, George

40.

There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.

Dodge, John F.

41.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Buscaglia, Leo

42.

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

Twain, Mark

43.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

44.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Churchill, Winston

45.

If you follow only one rule, let it be this one: Be yourself. The really strong boy-girl relationships are based on what people really are, not on what they pretend to be.

46.

If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.

Marden, Orison Swett

47.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

48.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

49.

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

Needham, Richard J.

50.

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.